{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"S2E10 Are Jewish People "A People"?","description":"Rabbi Josh Rose and Rabbi Jeffrey Weill open with quick banter about The Clash\u2014correcting a claim that Allen Ginsberg wrote broadly for Combat Rock (it was a spoken-word feature on \u201cGhetto Defendant\u201d)\u2014then pivot to their real topic: Jewish peoplehood. They trade personal moments that made peoplehood feel tangible: a wild wedding hora, a teenage son\u2019s ecstatic trip to Israel, and the fantasy of a synchronized, worldwide Shema. Both admit strong, visceral bonds to other Jews, yet note how personality, humor, music, and shared culture can sometimes trump tribal ties in day-to-day affinity. They then interrogate whether \u201cpeoplehood\u201d exists or is better treated as an aspirational story worth preserving despite deep political and theological fractures. Weill recalls an Israeli guide who felt more kinship with an Arab Israeli bus driver than with U.S. Jews, raising questions about nationhood vs. Jewishness. He references Eric Alterman\u2019s We Are Not One to underscore disunity, while Rose argues the dream still has value even if the facts don\u2019t add up neatly. They close by distinguishing love for the Jewish collective from friction with particular Jews, debating \u201cmyth\u201d vs. \u201cdream,\u201d invoking (and nitpicking) Herzl\u2019s \u201cIf you will it\u2026\u201d line, and, fittingly, ending where they began\u2014on music. ","author_name":"Weird Being Jewish: Three Rabbis Walk Into a Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/531302","html":"