2.07 It Could Be Worse (w/ Jodi Rudoren)

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🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Rabbi Shira and Joshua react to Election Night and tie it into this week's Torah portion of Vayera. We also welcome on Jodi Rudoren, editor in chief of The Forward, to discuss how she handles criticism from all corners of the Internet, her experiences at the New York Times, and her take on the hamentashen vs. latke debate.

Episode Timecodes:

(15:30) - Jodi Rudoren Interview

(41:45) - Rabbi Shira's Guided Meditation

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0:00.0	Political tensions, anxiety, and loneliness are on the rise.
0:04.0	But problems like these aren't new, and the solutions don't have to be either.
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0:27.9	Works from PRX, wherever you listen to podcasts. Joshua Malina.
0:45.3	Yes, Rabbi Shirastatman. How goes it?
0:48.3	Hello and welcome to chutzpad. Ancient texts from modern time.
0:52.3	Welcome to the entire chutz squad. Welcome to episode
0:56.4	42. How are you feeling today, Josh? I'm feeling surprisingly better than I anticipated the day after
1:05.4	election day. American election day, yeah. Yes, yes, not to be confused with other countries' election day. That's right. I'm American. If I haven't said before, note that I am an American citizen. Oh, by the way, that is an interesting conversation. That is true. And so why do we get all wrought up about other countries' election days? but maybe we should discuss that at another podcast.
1:28.8	So you're feeling hopeful?
1:33.6	I don't know if I'd say hopeful. I'm feeling better than I anticipated. I expected the red wave that many people were touting and predicting, and it was a bit more of a trickle than I anticipated.
1:40.4	How do you feel? You know what's so beautiful about that? You're reminding me that the Hebrew word
1:45.1	Tikva, which means what? Hope. All right. The word Tikva is connected to the word kav, which means like a
1:53.2	thin thread. It's such an interesting connection that like hope. I'm thinking about how you said,
2:00.4	like, I don't know, am I hopeful?
2:01.6	It's like hope in the Jewish tradition is not like a waterfall, right? It's not, it's not a
2:07.8	tsunami. It's in fact is something very thin and also quite delicate as well. And I find that
2:14.9	a really meaningful way of thinking about how I feel at this moment
2:19.0	as someone who cares about the future of humanity and especially America, perhaps other
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