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#182 - Rabbi Rick Jacobs
Following our thought-provoking episode with Prof. Rosenbaum, I am honored to sit down with Rabbi Rick Jacobs in this episode. Jacobs is a Reform rabbi and the president of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), the congregational arm of the Reform movement in North America which represents an estimated 1.5 million Reform Jews in nearly 900 synagogues across the United States and Canada. Together we tackle several of today’s most pressing issues: -Being a Reform Jew in a post-October 7th America -How the Reform and broader Jewish communities combat rising antisemitism -His thoughts on the…
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