Why Celebrate Judaism in an Antisemitic World?

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

attended his classes in crown heights it was actually meant for older women but i went anyways i was completely spellbound and i used to sit writing copious notes and lots of questions and at the end of each and every session rabbi jacobson was very kind to answer them all so if you have any questions this evening please feel free uh to shout out let us know your questions and i am sure he will be up for answering them so we know the topic for this evening is why celebrate judaism in anti-semitic worlds and as robbie jacobson addresses this topic i'm sure he will inspire all of us with his humor his knowledge and hopefully we'll finish this evening with a better understanding of what being jewish is all about thank you so so much for your very kind and meaningful words i really appreciate it and i'm so thrilled to be here with you so many dear jewish students from all across europe it's really a great pleasure and a delight and a privilege to be here with you because you are our future you represent the tomorrow of the jewish world i want to begin with a story a personal experience that i had a number of years ago i was invited by the pentagon to deliver the keynote speech to the chief of chaplains of the entire us army once a year the leading chaplains of the u.s army the military the navy the air force go on a retreat that year was hilton head south carolina usually the religious keynote is presented by a priest by a minister usually the keynote was bill billy graham who for many years delivered the inspiring message but one year the chief of chaplains a fellow named douglas carver a baptist decided that he wants a jewish speaker

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