S1E37 / Seeking Sanctuary / Julie Levey, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, Pastor Jamal Bryant

EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder

KFF Health News and Just Human Productions

Science, #Coronavirus, Health & Fitness, #Smallpox, Documentary, #Covid19, #Sarscov2, #Eradication, Life Sciences, Society & Culture, #Covid, Medicine

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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“I don't have any plans on returning in the immediate future. I don't want history to record that COVID grew in America because of irresponsible religious groups… I want to make sure that we are good stewards of health and responsibility.” - Dr. Jamal Bryant COVID has closed down many religious spaces, profoundly impacting faith communities. Many rituals have been disrupted, and social distancing guidelines are preventing people from gathering. In today’s episode, we hear from Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, senior rabbi of Park Avenue Synagogue, and Pastor Jamal Bryant of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. Together, they’ll be examining a question people of all religions are asking right now: what does it mean to be a member of a faith community during a time of social distancing? Nominations for the 2020 People's Choice Podcast Awards opened on July 1st. To show your support, please go to podcastawards.com and nominate us in the People’s Choice and Health categories. This podcast was created by Just Human Productions. We're powered and distributed by Simplecast. We're supported, in part, by listeners like you. #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Julie Levy. I'm an intern working with Just Human Productions on Epidemic.
0:06.0	Nominations for the 2020 People's Choice Podcast Awards are open until July 31st.
0:12.0	To show your support, please go to are open until July 31st.
0:13.0	To show your support, please go to podcast awards.com
0:17.0	and nominate us in the People's Choice and Health categories.
0:20.0	That's podcast awards.com. Thank you. I'm Dr. Saline Gounder and this is epidemic. Today is Tuesday July 21st. Before the pandemic Friday night was something Julie Levy always looked forward to.
1:06.0	Cabalat Chabalat Chabat Chabat at Park Avenue Synagogue on Friday night is a beautiful service. The canters are singing alongside a band and the space is
1:19.3	full of families who have come together at the end of the week to be with each other and to welcome
1:26.6	in Shabbat.
1:27.6	Julie's one of our interns.
1:29.7	She's going to be a freshman at Princeton University in the fall.
1:33.2	We have seats in the sanctuary that are our go-to seats, so usually in the middle of the winter
1:39.1	my family of six will be surrounded by our winter jackets piled up on the seats next to us with the prayer
1:46.0	books all around us.
1:48.8	And it's just this beautiful moment where all of us come together after a week of activities and school and work when we may not have seen each other as much as we would have wanted to.
2:00.0	But with the quarantine, Julie and her family couldn't experience that same sense of community, at least not in person.
2:08.0	And as I've thought about my identity in the past few months, as we've been in this time of social
2:14.0	distancing. This idea of community has been so much more on my mind than ever
2:19.8	before because the thing that we are lacking right now is community as we've ever
2:25.6	known it before and this is that this is not just about Judaism this is about all
2:29.3	faiths all identities all groups of people,
2:32.6	we're unable to form community in the same ways
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