Zev Eleff: Is This the End of American Judaism [Denominations 1/5]

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

[Music] hi friends and welcome to 1840 you'll notice this is a little bit of a new intro and I want to give some context for kind of where I am where 1840 is we've been on break for a few weeks and a lot has happened in those weeks and launching a new series feels very very daunting to me personally right now but I'm actually extraordinarily excited cuz I think this is an opportunity and a I think this is an opportunity and a moment to talk about Judaism Yiddish kite our lives in ways that we never have before and I want to just give a little bit of background to my own thinking before we enter into this series I may have mentioned this before but as we were headed into sucus of this year you know early October pre- October 7th we had an entire series already completed that series was about Jewish denominations it was about basically the denominational structure that we have in the United States of America it's the United States of America it's slightly different in other countries certainly very different in Israel and we were going to launch that series it was something that a lot of our listeners were curious about something that I've given a tremendous amount of thought about especially because within my family being Orthodox is definitely not something that we take for granted most bashevkin around the world do not affiliate as Orthodox it was my father's choice to really build his family that way we have so many relatives who are reformed conservative Reconstructionist and I did did think that I had a little

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1. 0:00[Music] hi friends and welcome to 1840 you'll notice this is a little bit of a…
2. 5:37fight I don't mean the Israeli Army in Gaza I don't even mean the campus protests…
3. 11:16when I say religious thinking I'm not just talking about Orthodox Judaism or even Judaism I'm…
4. 17:26is the question and so many of the methodologies that we have used to find an…
5. 23:07wondering aloud how the principles of his movement and his community have led to this upsurge…
6. 29:21and alien to me I am so moved by this I'm so moved by somebody who…
7. 34:57and you will see there will always be neon signs that have the word exit on…
8. 42:13belong to the same denominations you nearly everybody in the class affiliates with the Orthodox denomination…
9. 48:49introductions to his books he always thanks people for their posts and comments that they make…
10. 55:01as a Protestant analogy of thinking of the different forms of protestantism in the United States…

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