Jeff Seidel: The Man Who Never Stops Looking for the Next Jew

<p>Jeff Seidel has spent more than four decades finding Jews wherever he can, at the Kotel, on college campuses, in airports, at football games, and even in nightclubs, trying to make sure one more person has a place for Shabbat and a stronger connection to Judaism. He sleeps about four hours a night, starts preparing for Friday night on Sunday morning, and still talks about missed opportunities as if they happened yesterday.</p><p>Michael sits down with Jeff to go beyond the stories people already know and ask what shaped him, what more than 40 years of outreach has cost him personally, why assimilation worries him more than antisemitism, and why he still feels he should be doing more. Jeff also talks about growing up in Skokie searching for Jewish pride, studying psychology, coming to Israel, building a network of families willing to host strangers for Shabbat, becoming a rabbi later in life, and the small moments he believes can change a person’s life years after you’ve forgotten they ever happened.</p><p>At the center of the conversation is one question Jeff keeps coming back to: if each of us has the ability to help someone else, why aren’t we doing more?</p><p><strong>JEFF SEIDEL&#39;s Jewish Student Centers </strong></p><p>Website: <a href="https://jeffseidel.com?utm_source=chatgpt.com">https://jeffseidel.com</a></p><p>Donate: <a href="https://jeffseidel.com/donation-home-2/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">https://jeffseidel.com/donation-home-2/</a></p><p></p>