Talking it Out: Ep. 232

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Tablet Magazine

Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This week, we reflect on the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent protests that have spread across the world, with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets to decry racism and police violence. Our first guest is Jason Kirschner, Mark's first cousin and close friend from childhood. Their Northeast Jewish suburban upbringings were strikingly similar, except that Jason is black. The cousins catch up by phone, and discuss race for the first time. Then we talk to Rabbi Alex Ozar of Yale's Slifka Center for Jewish Life, who is writing his PhD on what Jewish ethics teach us about our responsibility for social justice, focusing on the work of Hannah Arendt, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Joseph Soloveitchik. He explains what our obligations are as Jews in the face of injustice. Let us know what you think of the show: Email us at unorthodox@tabletmag.com or leave us a voicemail at (914) 570-4869. You can also record a voice memo on your smartphone and email it to us. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, photos, and more. Join our Facebook group, and follow Unorthodox on Twitter and Instagram.

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0:00.0	This is Unorthodox, the universe's leading Jewish podcast.
0:05.0	I am your host Mark Oppenheimer, joined as ever by my co-hosts,
0:09.0	one Lea Leibowitz.
0:10.0	One and only one. Thank God for that. Imagine two. Where would you put us?
0:17.0	You are the only Leal Leibowitz in the world, right? We've established that. Google has established that, right?
0:20.0	There's a lot of me, but only one.
0:22.0	And my other co-host Stephanie butnik how are you
0:24.8	Stephanie I'm the only one of me baby that's the fun of me. By the way the other
0:30.3	Mark Oppenheimer that well there's several, but the one you have...
0:33.0	I thought you were just going to let my Taylor Swift reference go and unnoticed, unmarked on this podcast?
0:36.8	I chuckled.
0:38.2	I didn't know.
0:39.6	But the, I do want to say that the Mark Oppenheimer who is an advocate a lawyer in South Africa
0:45.5	he got the YouTube he got like YouTube slash mark openheimer I'm sure he's mad that
0:50.1	I have mark openheimer dot com like we're in, he's getting pretty famous
0:53.7	and we're definitely bumping up against each other
0:55.5	as like low-level celebrities in small worlds.
0:59.1	So if you're out there, South African Mark Oppenheimer, I see you, I have my eyes on.
1:04.7	This week the three of us reflect on the murder of George Floyd and others and the subsequent
1:10.6	protests that have swelled from Minneapolis to Madrid
1:13.2	hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets to decry racism and police violence
1:18.0	and injustice. I have a lot to say about this as I'm sure that my co-hosts do as well. The first thing that I want to say is that I'm really
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