Antisemitism - Should I Wear a Yarmulka at Work? Dueling Rabbis Live 2/11/14

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

[Music] Thank you. Thank you both for enlightening us. Um question. I have a question regarding the workplace. So many of us, especially here in New York, uh work in secular professions. Um we're surrounded by non-Jews or non-religious Jews. Um, you know, we obviously there are there are laws against anti-semitism, against discrimination. We all know that. There are company rules against it that. There are company rules against it as well. But the reality is we can't really know what people are thinking or how they act, you know, what their real motives are. I'd like maybe one or both of you to just give us a little bit of guidance on, you know, that topic. How should we be acting in in the Jewish, you know, as Jews? How should we be acting in a secular workplace? I mean, I know Jews that are religious Jews who come to a secular workplace and they take the yarmakas off when they're when they're working and they go home and they put the yamaka back on just a little, you the yamaka back on just a little, you know, what are your views on that? Okay. So, there there are two points I think. One point was you said that as far as taking off the amaka, but another point is in general how to act. I think that a Jew has to be impeccable. He has to be beyond honest. Even if everyone else is make using the phone in the office to call their wife or to call their children or like everybody does to make copies, a Jew has to be even if everyone's doing it, even if the boss doesn't care so much, a Jew has to be impeccable. They go don't give any excuse at all that somebody should think

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1. 0:06[Music] Thank you. Thank you both for enlightening us. Um question. I have a question regarding…
2. 0:37that. There are company rules against it as well. But the reality is we can't really…
3. 1:39excuse at all that somebody should think he's dishonest, that he's not proper, that he's not…
4. 2:09marry. And it came the time of the year where you don't shave. And he asked…
5. 3:09the office. I I there's a dinner there's a a Christmas party. I come to the…
6. 3:40street because you you're not perfect enough. Put on a baseball cap. So therefore they don't…
7. 4:43going to work in the some government agency. I think it was a social security administration…
8. 5:13hamburg. And he behave in a way that's appropriate for that mode of dress. In other…
9. 6:13are talking they're joking around they're at the water cooler do they speak do they generally…
10. 6:44said, "This guy was consistent. He did everything properly. He didn't act improperly. He was able,…

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