Rabbi Shira in Conversation with David Brooks
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🗓️ 30 April 2025
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Rabbi Shira shares her live conversation with New York Times' Opinion columnist David Brooks.* And on Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) she talks about the importance of voting in the World Zionist Congress.
*This event was hosted by Sixth & I, a center for arts, entertainment, ideas, and Jewish life in Washington DC.
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| 1:03.5 | Shalom and hi. And welcome back to chutzpah, everybody. Today we're going to do something a little different. |
| 1:12.9 | Hannah gave me permission to briefly hijack the show and share a conversation I was privileged to have with New York Times opinion columnist David Brooks at 6th and I a few weeks ago. As many of you know, I served as founding rabbi at |
| 1:18.9 | sixth and I for about a dozen years. So stay tuned for that. It's coming soon. But before we turn it over to the book talk, today, Wednesday, April 30th, is Yom |
| 1:31.9 | Hazikaron. It's Israel's Memorial Day. And tonight and tomorrow is Yom Ha'atzmaut, which commemorates |
| 1:39.4 | Israel's birth as a state. And of course, Israel is on my mind, as it almost always is. I spend a lot of time |
| 1:49.8 | thinking about what I can do as an American Jew to help Israel be a safe and secure democracy. |
| 1:59.0 | And sometimes I feel quite powerless to actually make any change. |
| 2:03.1 | Maybe you do as well. And if you do, you are in luck, because this might be the best thing that |
| 2:07.9 | happens to you today. I have a suggestion for something you can do to make a difference in |
| 2:14.0 | Israel over the next five years. And that is to vote in the World Zionist Congress. |
| 2:21.3 | Now, if you haven't heard of the World Zionist Congress, just give me 30 seconds to be a little bit |
| 2:27.3 | wonky, as we say, in Washington, D.C. and tell you what this Congress is. It was established |
| 2:32.3 | by Theodore Herzl about, I don't know, |
| 2:35.9 | a hundred and some years ago. And the World Zionist Congress makes the policy decisions, |
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