Identity/Crisis

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#7: No mosque for Ramadan, no church for Easter, no shul for Passover. Now what? Apr 14, 2020

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Featuring Rev. Laura Everett (Massachusetts Council of Churches), Maggie Siddiqi (Center for American Progress), and Yehuda Kurtzer (Shalom Hartman Institute).

Mentioned in this episode: https://religionnews.com/2020/04/09/a-holy-week-disrupted-by-death-answered-by-an-honest-easter/

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/opinions/coronavirus-faith-leaders-showing-the-way/index.html

#6: Cooking for a different kind of seder Apr 05, 2020

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Mentioned in this episode:

Joan Nathan cookbooks: https://amzn.to/39JoGon

Adeena Sussman's braised cabbage: https://bit.ly/2V7RDF4 Huevos haminados: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haminados

Story about Todos the Roman: https://bit.ly/2yBfAND

#5: Can the Jewish social safety net adapt? Apr 03, 2020

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This episode features Yehuda Kurtzer of Shalom Hartman, David Rosenn of the Hebrew Free Loan Society, and Joanna Samuels of the Manny Cantor Center.

Texts and articles discussed in this episode:

Dahlia Lithwick in Slate: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-will-supercharge-american-inequality/608419/

Derek Thompson in the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-will-supercharge-american-inequality/608419/

Talmud Ketubot 67b: https://www.sefaria.org/Ketubot.67b.2?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en

#4: The Jewish funding crisis is here Mar 27, 2020

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Identity/Crisis is a production of the Shalom Hartman Institute.

Music by SoCalled.

For the first segment, we discussed these articles in eJewishPhilanthropy:

https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/courageous-leadership-now-an-urgent-agenda-for-the-jewish-community-and-its-institutions/

https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/major-jewish-organizations-form-emergency-pandemic-coalition/

The pieces discussed in the second segment were:

Brief Filed by the Jewish War Veterans of the United States: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17-1717/82310/20190130151739894_17-1717%2018-18%20bsac%20Jewish%20War%20Veterans.pdf Brief of the National Commission on Law and Public Affairs and Other Orthodox Organizations

#3: How to be a good leader in the middle of a pandemic Mar 20, 2020

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Identity/Crisis is a production of the Shalom Hartman Institute.

Music by SoCalled.

The story about Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai mentioned in the first segment can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.33b.5?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en

The sermon of Rabbi Nissim of Gerona can be found here: http://static.hartman.org.il/dev/uploads/2020/03/Derashot-HaRan-11.pdf

#2: Coronavirus and Community Mar 13, 2020

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Identity/Crisis is a production of the Shalom Hartman Institute.

Music by SoCalled.

The responsum referred to in this episode is Tzitz Eliezer, Vol. 20, §19. An audio recording of the translation can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/u16hsy6uk0r92oh/AAApC39Pi0IuA-XC2fCji-gTa/Recording%202020.03.12/Tzitz%20Eliezer/ZOOM0009?dl=0&preview=ZOOM0009_Tr2.WAV&subfolder_nav_tracking=1

#1: Jews and the Presidency Mar 05, 2020

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Identity/Crisis is a production of the Shalom Hartman Institute. Music by SoCalled.

Links from this episode:

Michael Walzer: https://www.resetdoc.org/story/citizenship-pluralism-and-political-action/

Mishnah Bava Batra 1:5: https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Bava_Batra.1.5?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en