Eitan Hersh: Can the Jewish Left Talk With the Jewish Right? [Outreach: Bonus]

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Religion & Spirituality, Judaism

4.6 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Eitan Hersh, a professor of political science at Tufts University, about teaching students of radically different political and religious views how to speak to one another.

College campuses have been a hotbed of contentious conversations, especially on issues around Israel, and Prof. Hersh is someone who’s been teaching his students to turn their disputes productive. In this episode we discuss:

What happens when Hersh brings up Jewish topics in his college classes?
How are students discussing the issue of removing international students who support terrorist organizations?
How would Hersh teach Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews to understand one another?

Tune in to hear a conversation about what happens when personal subjects become the content of a college course.

Interview begins at 7:25.

Eitan Hersh is a professor of political science at Tufts University. His research focuses on US elections and civic participation. Hersh is the author of Politics is for Power (Scribner, 2020), Hacking the Electorate (Cambridge UP 2015), as well as scholarly articles. He earned his PhD from Harvard in 2011 and served as assistant professor of political science at Yale University from 2011-2017. His public writings have appeared in venues such as The New York Times, USA Today, The Atlantic, POLITICO, and The Boston Globe.

References:

“Where the Left Studies the Right” by Barton Swaim

“A Conservative Thought Experiment on a Liberal College Campus” by Rachel Slade

The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher

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Hacking the Electorate: How Campaigns Perceive Voters by Eitan D. Hersh

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0:00.0	Hi friends, a few months ago we advertised the birth of a new community in Israel.
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0:12.7	and let's face it, we are living in a time when every single one of us should be drafting the five-year plan for our futures in Israel.
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1:00.2	On June 29th, Eden will be hosting a webinar to speak in detail about the vision for this project.
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1:20.2	to find out more. Hi friends and welcome to 1840 where each month we explore different topic balancing modern sensibilities with traditional sensitivities
1:45.3	to give you new approaches to timeless Jewish ideas.
1:49.2	I'm your host, David Bischofkin, and this month we're continuing our exploration with a bonus episode about Jewish outreach.
1:57.1	This podcast is part of an exploration of those big, juicy, Jewish ideas, so be sure to check
2:01.8	out 1840.org.org. That's 1-8-F-O-R-T-Y.org, where you can also find videos, articles, recommended
2:07.4	readings, and weekly emails. As I was preparing our series on Jewish outreach, at the end of
2:15.1	January, an article dropped in the Wall Street Journal that really caught
2:20.0	my attention. It actually reminded me of something I had read earlier. It's an article entitled
2:24.8	Where the Left Studies the Right. At Tufts, an elite Boston area university, Aton
2:31.7	Hirsch teaches a class in 20th century conservatism. This is an article
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