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The Dardik Family: A Child Moves Away From Zionism [Divergence 3/6]

JL;DR SUMMARY The Dardik family shares their experiences dealing with ideological divergences after their son Aharon Akiva, a philosophy student and ceasefire activist, refuses to follow IDF orders and faces military jail time. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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ZionismIdfFamily DynamicsActivismPeace ActivismMilitary ServiceAmerican Jews In IsraelDivergence

Places mentioned

Israel
"It's the context with which we descend into Egypt in the first place."
Southern District, Israel
"there was a question, are the Jewish people going to emerge from all of his children? And as we see, they only emerged from Yaakov, and Yaakov went through this terrifying story where his own children sold one of his children, his own children, into slavery, where the brothers sold Joseph into slavery, and Yaakov is crestfallen, Yaakov is so broken. This is how the Jewish people get to Mitzrayim in the first place."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"This podcast is part of a larger exploration of those big, juicy Jewish ideas, so be sure to check out 1840.org where you can also find videos, articles, recommended readings, and weekly emails."
Central District, Israel
"...I don't know how much of it is memory and how much of it is reconstructed in my memory. I think it was not shocking given my you know I know him as a person I know how this has been a struggle and if that's what he was told to do and I understand that sergeants are not in the custom of saying oh that's not comfortable for you okay well we'll find you something else to do that's yes that is not exactly how the military operates dad judah maybe you can jump in do you remember the first conversation you had with arna kiva about this very real break this very real dissonance was your first reaction were you like okay we have to take him and maybe redo our zionist education let's get it"

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