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Jewish Values vs Jewish Interests

Preventing America from Becoming Merely “Diaspora”
Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer is president of the Shalom Hartman Institute. Yehuda is a leading thinker on the essential questions facing contemporary Jewish life, with a focus on issues of Jewish peoplehood and Zionism, the relationship between history and memory, and questions of leadership and change in the Jewish community. He is the author of Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past, the co-editor of  The New Jewish Canon, the host of the Identity/Crisis podcast, and

With the elections over, where are American Judaism and the American Jewish community heading? Long-developing polarization and hyper-partisanship, amplified by local discourse around October 7 and the Israel-Hamas war, have led many to wonder if liberalism, American Jewish values, and Zionism are truly compatible, and if the Jewish community can survive as a collective enterprise.

In this session recorded on November 19, 2024, Yehuda Kurtzer reflects on the post-election moment and offers a new framework for how American Judaism might continue to thrive in the future.

Other sessions in this series, Heading to the Polls: American Jewish Civics in a Post- October 7 World

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