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On Being with Krista Tippett

Yossi Klein Halevi — Thin Places, Thick Realities

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

🗓️ 12 May 2011

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A new show from Jerusalem with American-Israeli journalist Yossi Klein Halevi, who says Jerusalem is a place where the essential human story plays itself out with particular intensity.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Just a word of thanks as we wrap up our online fundraising campaign.

0:04.7

We've had an overwhelming response.

0:07.0

We have been incredibly heartened by the over thousand people who've contributed.

0:11.6

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

0:18.8

I'm Krista Tippett on Being.

0:20.7

Today, Thin Places, Thick Realities, a new conversation in our series from Israel and

0:26.0

the West Bank, listening for realities and possibilities that get hidden by headlines.

0:32.2

When you're so caught up in your own story, especially in a situation of conflict, you

0:39.6

can't separate religion from the conflict that we're living, from the fears.

0:45.2

And Jerusalem, if you can manage, at least sometimes, to overcome your own fears and grievances,

0:55.0

all here.

0:56.6

It's so obvious when you open yourself to it, what God is saying to humanity in this city.

1:03.4

That's a vast statement.

1:04.8

I sat down with Yossi Kline Halevi in Jerusalem to understand it.

1:08.9

Stay with us.

1:15.5

Religions Evolve says Yossi Kline Halevi.

1:18.2

And whether we are religious or secular, we all have a stake in what happens in the Holy

1:22.7

Land.

1:23.8

With his voice, we continue unraveling meaning and identity in the Holy Land.

1:28.8

We went there looking for realities and possibilities that get hidden by headlines.

1:33.8

Yossi Kline Halevi, author, journalist and son of a Holocaust survivor, grew up in Brooklyn

1:39.4

and emigrated to Israel in the early 80s.

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