No Apologies: Antisemitism and Rosh Hashanah

Jay has been doing some reading, and he opens this week with an essay he refuses to attribute until the Rabbi guesses. From there the Rabbi gets on a roll about Mark Ruffalo, Javier Bardem, and Hasan Piker (he calls him something else), and why the four in ten Jewish college students pulling back from Jewish life are a bigger threat than any of them. Then we hit the holidays, because Rosh Hashanah 5787 is a week away and ChayaLeah brought questions.In this episode, we get into:Jabotinsky’s “No Apologies” and why we should stop defending ourselves to people who already wrote the verdictWhen to fight antisemitism and when to let the buffalo be a buffaloBen Shapiro’s “as Jewish as a ham sandwich” line, why the rabbis were right that he doesn’t get to decide, and why ChayaLeah thinks Bernie Sanders belongs in a category of his ownAmalek, the first nation to attack us after Egypt, and the people who give everyone else coverHow to walk into shul on Rosh Hashanah when you don’t know Hebrew, the tunes, or anyone in the roomWhether parents should guilt their adult kids into coming home for the holidays (the Rabbi has a phone call script, and it involves a fake divorce)What to say to a young adult with no hope, no friends, and twelve hours a day of video games, from Elie Wiesel to Pirkei Avot to a Talmudic line about prisonersWhy nobody is inviting the single mom or the divorced friend for Shabbat, and what to do about itShanah Tovah from all three of us. Come sit with us for an hour, nobody is checking whether you know when to stand.Subscribe nowShareLeave a comment