Orthodox Jews Against Discrimination and Racism Conference

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

in the cloud it's recording now okay let's begin [Music] so um Umar I wanted you to perhaps um um kind of introduce yourself and the impetus for the uh the conference and then um we will introduce um ourselves and and begin our discussion thank you very much uh personal I'd like to thank uh immediately Stacy for undertaking this uh difficult task of uh chairing this conference and uh hopefully it'll have an impact to beyond the people who anticipate because it'll be broadcast afterwards and I think that these things they've watched much more than the participants who are involved with it I started this group several years ago the orthops was against the Discrimination racism in order that there should be some voice in our community which um includes a rabbi includes other people who stand up for orthography being Against Racism discrimination which does not always seem to be the case unfortunately I I'd started because of internal discrimination of by uh ashkenazim against but that was the first incident which brought me to I mean that the group is needed as I had students at the time were very disturbed by what they saw going on uh in the Orthodox world and I figured it has to be a voice which opposes it and over time we developed a group it's a various different other aspects of discrimination racism um cultivating relationships among ourselves to try to understand each other and to try out in our Orthodox society and to try and improve ourselves in this respect uh several times it's become apparent to me that we need to reach out and understand each other in ways in which we don't always understand

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1. 0:00in the cloud it's recording now okay let's begin [Music] so um Umar I wanted you…
2. 5:51um just want to be um looking for ways to to understand different perspectives some people's…
3. 12:06um as a kid and you know my family was one of the the only family…
4. 18:24Jewish adults who really are used to diversity and able to talk about it and not…
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6. 31:12have been I've been so much you know making sure that I understand the Haskell and…
7. 37:44um really produce um uh the kadosh Hashem for the Jewish Community while while also too…
8. 44:11that way we um that way everyone can see the question and then um then we'll…
9. 51:15um your sense of sense of self your sense of connection to Hashem because sometimes the…
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