Aspen Jewish Conversations: Can We Tell a New Jewish Story?
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
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Listen to a special live event held at Aspen Jewish Congregation on August 13, 2025.
The Jewish experience has always been bigger than survival. Yet too often, the public stories we tell center on trauma and loss. This session explores how we might reclaim stories of resilience, creativity, and contribution, and how new narratives could help us build a future rooted in strength.
This conversation features Dasi Fruchter, Founder & Spiritual Leader of the South Philadelphia Shtiebel, Mark Oppenheimer, Creator & Host of Unorthodox podcast and Dara Horn, Author and Founder & President of Mosaic Persuasion.
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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. |
| 0:08.0 | For thousands of years, societies have asked questions about how to live, thrive, and love. |
| 0:13.0 | And it was spiritual traditions that offered wisdom and tools to help people find their way. |
| 0:17.0 | Tools that science is now discovering offer real benefits. Join me, Dave |
| 0:22.3 | Desteno, to explore how we can all use this wisdom, whatever our beliefs. Listen to How God |
| 0:27.9 | Works from PRX, wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:34.6 | Hey, chutzpah listeners, Hana here with Rabbi Shira. |
| 0:39.9 | We're going to be bringing you brand new episode, September 17th, just in time for the new year. |
| 0:45.7 | But in the meantime, for the next few weeks, we're going to be bringing you some special live conversations that Shira had over the summer. |
| 0:52.2 | Okay, Shira, tell us what we're going to hear. |
| 0:54.9 | Sure. As many of you know, I am now the senior rabbi of Aspen Jewish congregation. And this summer, |
| 1:00.6 | we held a special series that we hoped inspired fresh thinking about the future of Judaism |
| 1:05.7 | and the Jewish community. We invited some influential Jewish leaders and thinkers to wrestle with the questions |
| 1:12.3 | that define Jewish life today. Today you're going to hear a conversation called Can We Tell a New |
| 1:17.4 | Jewish Story with panelists Dara Horn, Mark Oppenheimer, and Dasi Frachter. As you guys are listening, |
| 1:23.8 | we hope you're thinking about your own questions. We're in production for the next season, |
| 1:28.3 | and we would love to hear from all of you. |
| 1:30.3 | What's on your mind? |
| 1:31.5 | What kinds of life advice do you need? |
| 1:33.5 | Send your emails to chutzpad at gmail.com. |
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