How to be a Jew … Like Dara Horn

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Like most Jews, the news of the murder of the Bibas children not only saddened us, but it also made us ANGRY. How do we deal with our own thoughts about the event, and the greater world’s response as well? Dara Horn, a prolific author known for her book People Love Dead Jews (and the podcast Adventures with Dead Jews) as well as her work fighting antisemitism, joins us to deal with our anger and provide context for why we should be optimistic about the future of Jews. We also talk about her new Passover-themed graphic novel for kids, One Little Goat. How does a seder that won’t end lead to a time-traveling adventure? Have a listen.

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1:04.7	Be a little bit more excited.
1:06.3	I know.
1:06.9	Well, here's the thing.
1:07.9	I'm really pissed off.
1:11.1	Shalom, hello, what is up? Welcome to How to Be a Jew. If I don't sound as excited as I usually do,
1:16.3	it's because I'm really angry and I am Courtney Hazlett in that order, unfortunately, at the moment.
1:21.6	I'm joined as ever by Rabbi Diana Furstco. Rabbi, welcome. So happy to be together. Good times and bad. I'll take it
1:29.2	anyway. I can get it. As well as Josh Cross. Yours in anger. I appreciate that. I'm angry because it is
1:36.9	day 507 of the war. There are 63 hostages still in Gaza, about half of whom are, we think, alive.
1:47.8	And last week was the absolute worst week since October 7th.
1:52.4	The confirmation of the deaths of the babies boys and their mom and the manner in which they died, which is brutally murdered
2:03.8	at the hands of Hamas. And then Hamas took great pains to cover up the way in which they
2:11.4	murdered the children and their mom. And the way the world received that news, which was incredibly disappointing.
2:20.3	If not, at this point it's not surprising, but the idea that the world could not rally
2:27.0	around a mother and her two children in ways that they would rally around a mother and her
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