Aspen Jewish Conversations: How Big Should the Tent Be?
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🗓️ 10 September 2025
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Listen to a special live event held at Aspen Jewish Congregation on August 13, 2025.
In a time of deep division, what does it really mean to belong to the Jewish people? And how do we stay in community when our beliefs, priorities, and red lines conflict? This session draws on the idea of the “big tent” as both a moral aspiration and a real-world challenge, exploring how we navigate differences while maintaining a sense of Jewish peoplehood.
This conversation features Hebrew College President Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, Shalom Hartman Institute President Yehuda Kurtzer, and the Executive Director of the Harvard Hillel Jason Rubenstein.
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| 0:00.0 | Political tensions, anxiety, and loneliness are on the rise, |
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| 0:08.0 | For thousands of years, societies have asked questions about how to live, thrive, and love. |
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| 0:35.8 | Hey, chutzpod listeners. We are back with new episodes next week, just in time for the new year. |
| 0:42.3 | But in the meantime, for the next few weeks, we are bringing you some special live conversations that Chira had over the summer. |
| 0:49.2 | Shira, tell us a little bit about what we're going to hear. |
| 0:52.3 | Sure. As many of you know, I am now the senior |
| 0:54.8 | rabbi of Aspen Jewish congregation. And this summer, we held a special series that we hoped |
| 1:00.3 | inspired fresh thinking about the future of Judaism and the Jewish community. We invited some |
| 1:06.1 | influential Jewish leaders and thinkers to wrestle with the questions that define Jewish life today. |
| 1:11.9 | Today you're going to hear a conversation called How Big Should the Tent Be with panelists |
| 1:16.4 | Yehuda Kurtzer, Sharon Cohen Annesfeld, and Jason Rubenstein. |
| 1:20.6 | As you guys are listening, we hope you're thinking about your own questions. |
| 1:24.8 | We're in production for the next season, and we would love to hear from all of you. |
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| 1:39.4 | our new episodes dropping starting September 17th.-da and enjoy our conversation. |
| 1:45.0 | Good evening, we are thrilled to have you all here with us. |
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