Welcome to What Matters Now, the Times of Israel's weekly podcast looking at one issue affecting Israel and the Jewish world.

This week, I, Amanda Borsseldan, am handing the mic over to Yossi Klein-Halevi.

Yossi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and an author, a thinker, and a writer for the Times of Israel, and many other outlets.

Recently, Yossi shared with me his longtime interest in interviewing Rabbi Irving Yitz-Greenberg, whom he called one of this generation's most important Jewish theologians.

Greenberg has been a central figure in the creation of a post-Holocast Jewish identity

in establishing Holocaust commemoration projects like the Washington Museum.

He's a leader in interdenominational Jewish pluralism and in Jewish Christian interfaith

dialogue. Now at age 91, Greenberg has published his magnum opus called The Triumph of Life,

which offers a brilliant and original argument for a new understanding of Judaism.

So this week, we ask both Yossi Klein-Halevi and Rabbi Yitz-Greenberg,

what matters now?

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