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On Being with Krista Tippett

Sarah Bassin and Abdullah Antepli — Holy Envy

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.710.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The tensions of our time are well-known. But there are stories that are not being told, because they are not violent and not shouting to be heard. One of them is that all over this country, synagogues and mosques, Muslims and Jews, have been coming to know one another. There is friendship. There are initiatives that are patiently, and at human scale, planting the seeds for new realities across generational time. As part of the Civil Conversations Project, a live conversation at the Union for Reform Judaism’s General Assembly in Boston between Imam Abdullah Antepli and Rabbi Sarah Bassin.

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It sounds like the beginning of a joke.

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Any mom and a rabbi walk into a conference of reformed Jews.

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But amidst reports of rising anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, there are also friendships

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and conversations like this taking place.

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It's so interesting.

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What you envy of Islam, I envy the opposite direction in the Jewish tradition.

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