Adam and Mia Raskin: Can Families Live with Denominational Differences? [Denominations 5/5]

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[Music] hi friends and welcome to the 1840 podcast where each month we explore a different topic balancing modern sensibilities with traditional sensitivities to give you new approaches to Timeless Jewish Ideas I'm your host D bashevkin and this month we are continuing to explore Jewish but generally my favorite Orthodox Jews that I've ever met almost all of them are children of conservative rabbis I have almost like an eerie six sense would I meet someone and there's a certain way that they go about things a certain way that they talk about Yiddish kite the way that they talk about halaka the way that they talk about Jewish life they're fully integrated within the Orthodox Community but I sometimes pause and stop and wonder I'm said is your father a conservative Rabbi are you from a a home with a parent who is a conservative Rabbi father or mother and very often my suspicions are absolutely correct now I am not exactly offering a theory for why this is the case it is something I've noticed but I think one of the advantages of growing up in a religiously committed home a religiously committed non-orthodox home is that it really shapes the way that you speak about non-orthodox Jews when non-orthodox Jews are your family members are your parents are your children or your cousins or your siblings whatever that may be I think it softens much of the otherness that we grow up feeling within the Orthodox Community about the way that we look at those who grew up outside of the Orthodox Community but there is an otherness about the way Orthodox Jews very often look at non-orthodox Jews and vice versa there is an otherness and I've been in both of these rooms the way that non-orthodox Jews very often talk about Orthodox Jews there is this deep otherness this sense that there are

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1. 0:00[Music] hi friends and welcome to the 1840 podcast where each month we explore a different…
2. 5:49child between Mia Rasin Mia Raskin is an incredible person and her father Rabbi Adam Rasin…
3. 11:39doesn't send his kids to the school then why would anyone else so no matter what…
4. 17:00silly that comment is because like why do you care about the length of my skirt…
5. 22:55really what I'm called to do to be with these Jews to introduce things to them…
6. 28:13people around me to appreciate time as it is to connect with God there was like…
7. 33:56comfortable raising her own family in I would be disingenuous if I didn't you know say…
8. 39:09does that elicit from you given that it's not just an ideological difference but there is…
9. 45:00sabatical for as long as you needed to go back to school to get a PhD…
10. 50:19applies to no one because everyone has the capacity to take steps forward and rethink and…

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