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No. 8: What the Pandemic Tells Us About Haredim and Jewish Peoplehood

Donniel Hartman, Elana Stein Hain and Yossi Klein Halevi discuss Haredi opposition to pandemic restrictions.
Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is co-host, together with Donniel Hartman, of the Hartman Institute’s podcast, “For Heaven’s Sake” – the number one Jewish podcast in the English-speaking world. Halevi’s 2013 book, “Like Dreamers,” won the Jewish Book Council’s Everett Book of the Year Award. His latest book, “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor,” is a New York Times bestseller and has appeared in a dozen languages.

In episode #8 of For Heaven’s Sake, Donniel, Yossi, and Elana talk about Haredi opposition to the pandemic restrictions and how this impacts their relationship to the rest of Israel’s citizenry.

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For Heaven’s Sake is a podcast from the the Shalom Hartman Institute’s iEngage Project that revives the lost art of Jewish debate for the sake of illuminating a topic, not sowing division. The podcast draws its name from the concept of Machloket l’shem shemayim, “Disagreeing for the sake of heaven.”

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