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No. 72: We Still Need to Talk About the Occupation

Yehuda Kurtzer and Donniel Hartman discuss how Israeli society and the occupation are testing Zionist ideals.
Donniel Hartman, Yehuda Kurtzer

Donniel Hartman

Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman is president of the Shalom Hartman Institute and holds the Kaufman Family Chair in Jewish Philosophy. He is author of the Boundaries of Judaism and Putting God Second: How to Save Religion from Itself. His latest book, who are the Jews and Who Can We Become, was a 2023 Jewish Book Council Award Finalist. Donniel is also the host of the award-winning podcast For Heaven’s Sake, together with his colleague Yossi

Yehuda Kurtzer

In this episode, Yehuda Kurtzer speaks with Donniel Hartman about how Israeli society and the occupation are testing Zionist ideals. As Donniel explains, “…there is an absence of a moral conversation about our reality with Palestinians that is not sustainable from a Zionist perspective.” Donniel Hartman’s article on this same topic in Sources here.

Identity/Crisis: The Ideas Behind the News is a podcast of the Shalom Hartman Institute.

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Launched in early 2020, Identity/Crisis is a weekly roundtable podcast that explores the ideas behind the news hosted by Shalom Hartman Institute of North America President Yehuda Kurtzer. Episodes cover a wide range of topics and feature experts and content related to news and current events.

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