Hi, Brian Lairer here.

Up next, Brian Lairor Weekend,

three of our favorite segments from the week,

packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend.

So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m.

on WNYC on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone.

We'll be doing segments about Passover and Easter and the world situation this week. Passover first, because it comes first. Good Friday is this

Friday and Easter is this Sunday. With respect to Passover, the New Yorker has a very thoughtful article this week

about the divides within Jewish congregations, within Jewish families as Passover approaches

over the way Israel is fighting its wars in Gaza and now Lebanon. What will the conversations

be like around many families' cedar tables on a holiday that celebrates freedom from oppression, freedom of movement, and the founding of Israel, the promised land, as a refuge for the Jewish people?

The article cites, for example, a Washington post poll just a few months ago that found 46% of American Jews supporting the war in Gaza, and 48% opposing

it, basically a 50-50 split in the American Jewish community.

And the article quotes from a sermon back on the Jewish New Year, Russia Shuna, last fall,

by Angela Bookdahl, senior rabbi of the

Central Synagogue in Manhattan. Now, I found a video of it, and I'm going to play the quote

to help set this up. Play the clip. Then we'll talk to the writer, A.L. Press from the New Yorker,

and take your calls about your families and your congregations.

This runs a minute and a half. Again, it's Rabbi Angela Bookdahl and her Rosh Hashanah sermon at the

Central Synagogue. Listen to both halves of this as she acknowledges different worshippers within

her own congregation who might fire her as their rabbi if she says what she really

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