Identity/Crisis

Covenant, Compromise, Sacrifice, and Kindness (Re-Release)

Identity/Crisis

Show Notes

This episode was originally released on Tuesday, November 26th, 2024

This political moment may cause American Jews to ask: “Where have we seen this before?”

In this episode recorded live in NYC, Yehuda Kurtzer challenges the impulse to reach backwards for old frameworks to describe our current situation, and instead offers a vision for a new era in American-Jewish politics – one shaped by a culture of compromise and defined by an embrace of kindness.

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