Q&A: Responding to Antisemitism in the Media - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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in the media there's a lot of um not a lot but a number of shows that try to portray the religious world the the fir world uh once in a while they're positive there are some positive things but a lot of it is very very uh negative and unfortunately because these shows get a lot of dissemination people who are not malicious but they will form their understanding of Torah Judaism through these very negative distorted portrayals so the question is what do you do so I'll tell you one thing that's interesting the first thing you got to do is you know acknowledge that there may be shortcomings that's an important point you know uh because people often come with an attack and our instinct is to defend no matter what sometimes you know you could say you know there is a point here but the point is not a complete point and you need to balance it I'll call that mod partial admission actually even r Al is a great way to disempower your antagonist uh meaning I mean I remember I I I once actually had a debate myself with Alan dtz who was uh you know well he is a famous professor at Harvard uh and the like and he came from a from family and uh he left you know he left it although he came he's become more traditional actually over the years uh and he came in he was at a kab events

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1. 0:00in the media there's a lot of um not a lot but a number of shows…
2. 0:30so the question is what do you do so I'll tell you one thing that's interesting…
3. 1:00is a great way to disempower your antagonist uh meaning I mean I remember I I…
4. 1:30for all I I think the guy who invited him got in big trouble with the…
5. 2:01by I was not the I was the last minute substitute for somebody else who couldn't…
6. 2:31started and he got very very interested and afterwards he started saying but you know there's…
7. 3:01that in Israel whenever we debate anything it's like you know if if you say something…
8. 3:33your arguments at that point so that that's what I think you have to do…

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