No Apologies: Antisemitism and Rosh Hashanah

<p>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.</p><p>In this episode, we get into:</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://feuilleton.judaic.lsa.umich.edu/s/below-the-line/item/134#translation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Jabotinsky’s “No Apologies”</a> and why we should stop defending ourselves to people who already wrote the verdict</p></li><li><p>When to fight antisemitism and when to let the buffalo be a buffalo</p></li><li><p>Ben 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 own</p></li><li><p>Amalek, the first nation to attack us after Egypt, and the people who give everyone else cover</p></li><li><p>How to walk into shul on Rosh Hashanah when you don’t know Hebrew, the tunes, or anyone in the room</p></li><li><p>Whether 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)</p></li><li><p>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 prisoners</p></li><li><p>Why nobody is inviting the single mom or the divorced friend for Shabbat, and what to do about it</p></li></ul><p>Shanah Tovah from all three of us. Come sit with us for an hour, nobody is checking whether you know when to stand.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="%%checkout_url%%">Subscribe now</a></p><p><a href="%%share_url%%">Share</a></p><p><a href="%%half_magic_comments_url%%">Leave a comment</a></p>