Rabbi Steve Leder

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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"It's very hard to demonize someone you know and care about. It's very easy to objectify someone you know nothing about. We really need each other." Rabbi Steve Leder recently joined Zibby for an Instagram Live conversation to discuss this month's hostilities between Israel and Palestine and how the violence is now manifesting in America. The two discussed the importance of building genuine relationships with those who are different from us as well as why this is an essential lesson to teach children, and why more Americans need to condemn the rising tide of anti-Semitism when they see it.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
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0:35.0	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:40.0	A week ago, Saturday, I did an Instagram live with Rabbi Steve Letter. He is the author of four books, including a book that I
0:46.0	interviewed him about on my podcast called The Beauty of What Remains, What Death Teaches Us About Life.
0:51.4	He is the senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple, a very prestigious synagogue in
0:56.5	Los Angeles. And I wanted to talk to Rabbi Letter about all the events with Israel and Palestine,
1:03.8	but not so much to have any sort of political conversation, more as a way to clarify what exactly was going on and to have
1:13.0	him explain it as if to a 13-year-old girl, and also to see what we can do to combat the spread
1:18.6	of anti-Semitism and really hate towards any group. And he gave amazing, amazing, timely advice.
1:25.3	And I wanted to release it as a podcast as well. I hope you enjoy it.
1:28.9	Hi, everybody. I'm Zibi Owens, as you probably know, since you're watching my Instagram.
1:33.4	But I am here today with Rabbi Steve Letter, and I am really excited that he offered to do an
1:38.7	Instagram live with me today to talk about all of the stuff that's going on in Israel and the rise in anti-Semitism
1:44.9	and what we can all do to prevent it and help do our part to fix it. If you don't know about
1:51.1	Rabbi Letter, I got to know him because he was on my podcast for his book, which was amazing.
1:57.0	He's written four books. And the book we talked about the most was the beauty of what remains,
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