Keep the Faith with Shammai Engelmayer
Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer—author, lecturer, Judaica-related adult-ed teacher, and bi-weekly columnist for The Jewish Standard—discusses contemporary issues through the prism of Jewish law and tradition. If you believe Judaism is out of touch with today's world, this podcast may give you reason to reconsider.
Keep the Faith with Shammai Engelmayer
Episode No. 136--Israel and the rise of Jew-hatred worldwide
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Shammai Engelmayer (Rabbi)
We who do not live in Israel have always maintained that we have no right to interfere in the Jewish state's internal affairs. Given the explosion of Jew-hatred we are seeing around the world, however, it is clear that "Jew" and "Israel" are synonymous in the eyes of the world, so this Diaspora hands-off attitude is a luxury we no longer can afford. We need to do all that we can to move Israeli voters away from the extreme right and its ruinous policies.