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How Gaza is affecting American Jews and Christians (with Rabbi Michael Holzman and David French)

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Good Faith

News, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

51.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The Gaza crisis has sent out shock waves that extend to America. In this podcast, we explore how different communities and institutions in the US are responding. Rabbi Michael Holzman and David French join Curtis to examine what is happening for Jewish American communities, college campuses, the progressive movement, American evangelicals, and wider public support for Israel.



“What it would mean to treat Hamas like ISIS” by David French (NYT)

“The laws of campus culture wars” by David French (NYT)

The Left abandoned me” by Gal Beckerman (The Atlantic)

“The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False” by Simon Sebag Montefiore (The Atlantic)

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast. Good Faith Podcast is a production of Redeeming Babble and I'm your host Curtis Chang. Now the

0:25.4

good faith podcast is where people who follow Jesus or at least are interested

0:29.6

in people who follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world and one of the complex

0:35.6

confusing things happening in the world is the Gaza crisis and how then

0:40.9

as people who follow Jesus how do we make sense of this?

0:44.0

There's obviously a lot of complex angles we can take,

0:47.0

but one angle that I want to take today

0:50.0

is how is this affecting relationships between Christians and Jews?

0:55.0

And the reason why I think this is an important angle is if we are following Jesus,

1:00.0

we are by definition in relationship with a Jew.

1:03.7

Jesus was a Jew, incontrovertibly.

1:06.0

And so by definition, we are already in relationship

1:09.0

with a Jew and by extension in relationship to Judaism.

1:13.9

And so the question of how the scousa crisis affects

1:17.2

then our relationship with Jews

1:18.9

ought to be at least one important angle on this

1:22.2

for every Christian. And to help us explore that

1:25.0

angle we have two friends joining us one is our founding friend David French

1:31.0

David French columnists at New York Times.

1:33.3

David, welcome back again to the Good Faith Podcast.

1:37.2

Thanks, Curtis.

1:38.1

Always good to be back.

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