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#105: Behind the Bima - Meyers Leonard and Aaron Jungreis

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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from Boca Raton Florida rabbis Ephraim Goldberg Philip Moskowitz and Josh Brody are taking you behind the bema the BRS Rabbi schmooze about contemporary issues and talk to special guests who give up behind the scenes look at how they got to where they are and what keeps them going welcome to behind the bema good evening Wednesday evening 9 pm I'm away from joined by my dear friend Rabbi Josh Brody and we're here to take you behind the bema we're gonna take you behind the bema first special edition also known as Brody awesome is Brody a special edition behind the beam we're going to talk about anti-Semitism very much on our minds in the Forefront right now whether it's uh yay Kanye or Kyrie or um the Comfort the reaction to Ryan Terrell playing in a NBA game with the yamaka there's a lot of anti-Semitism and more Comfort than ever and we have the opportunity tonight to have two conversations about that uh and that is with Myers Leonard NBA star played nine Seasons still trying to break back in and we'll see him again in NBA uniform hopefully sometime soon we have a close personal relationship we you and I have formed with him our community and to learn from his story his incident and how he reacted in contrast to others and our young guys who we know had the great idea t-shirts sat on the floor at a Brooklyn uh at a Brooklyn Nets game and got a lot of attention so we'll be able to talk about

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  4. 18:23there publicly maybe you should talk to some people first and maybe you can learn and…
  5. 24:31and where do you go from there how do you make sure that you don't live…
  6. 30:41not just to deal with the guilt of the pain that you cause but also to…
  7. 36:52from the Jewish community in in such quick time after everything had happened I again I…
  8. 43:03where I come from for anything uh as I've been in bigger cities and been exposed…
  9. 49:11having a family finding the woman for me and then settling down someday and so I…
  10. 55:18therapy because I wanted to better understand my emotions from the incident and why I couldn't…

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