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Why Dual Loyalty is Good for the Jews, with Rabbi Nolan Lebovitz

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JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Nolan Lebovitz argues in favor of embracing dual loyalty for American Jews, advocating for simultaneous loyalty to both America and Israel as a harmonious concept. 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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Jewish HistoryJewish EducationJewish IdentityDiasporaAmerican JewsOctober 7thRabbi Nolan LebovitzDual Loyalty

Places mentioned

Los Angeles, California, United States
"And he wrote an incredible book with an incredible title, The Case for Dual Loyalty... Los Angeles."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"with an acknowledgment that what happens to our Jewish brothers and sisters in Kfar Aza and Ba'eri and Tel Aviv and Jerusalem is no different."
Jerusalem, Israel
"with an acknowledgment that what happens to our Jewish brothers and sisters in Kfar Aza and Ba'eri and Tel Aviv and Jerusalem is no different."
Israel
"Hamas, a terrorist organization, had attacked Jewish communities living on the border of the state of Israel."
New York, United States
"what happens to our Jewish brothers and sisters in Kfar Aza and Ba'eri and Tel Aviv and Jerusalem is no different than what happens to our Jewish brothers and sisters in New York and Los Angeles."
Miami, Florida, United States
"no different than what happens to our Jewish brothers and sisters in New York and Los Angeles, Miami, Paris, London."
Paris, France
"happens to our Jewish brothers and sisters in New York and Los Angeles, Miami, Paris, London."
London, United Kingdom
"happens to our Jewish brothers and sisters in New York and Los Angeles, Miami, Paris, London."
Missouri, United States
"this book is a meditation that you would read with two glasses. Two glasses of wine."
Oxford, Mississippi, United States
"So it Cambridge, right at Cambridge, I talk about it in the book, there's a day where all the protesters gather in the center of campus at Harvard university, right"
Madrid, Madrid Autonomous Community, Spain
"And it's, and, and we all know the date of 1492 is the date that it all collapsed. But in 1391, just a mere century beforehand, there was an October."
Chicago, Illinois, United States
"when I was a child, we used to go to downtown Chicago. And there's a... There's a famous statue of George Washington with his arm around Chaim Solomon."
Rhode Island, United States
"There's a wonderful interaction where George Washington visits, according to legend, a synagogue in Rhode Island."
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"I think American kids should feel that sense when it comes to Israel, when it comes to going to Jewish camps, Jewish programs."
Lyon, Lyon Metropolis, France
"...But here he was trying to justify the idea that Jews should be treated as equal human beings. In France. And this was in effect. Everywhere."
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
"...But here he was trying to justify the idea that Jews should be treated as equal human beings. In France. And this was in effect. Everywhere."
Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France
"...But here he was trying to justify the idea that Jews should be treated as equal human beings. In France. And this was in effect. Everywhere."
Harvard, Massachusetts, United States
"They come to the center of campus to lower the American flag and raise up a Palestinian flag. And a group of fraternity brothers..."

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