38. Should I Protest?

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Jewish Profundity (Sometimes)

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What did the Chassidic Rabbi say to the Jewish guy who grew up with Matzo and Easter eggs? The Zal is an informal conversation on (usually?) profound ideas found in and beyond Jewish life and traditions. Tune in with Adam Valen Levinson, Sociology Fellow at Yale, and Dovid Grossbaum, Rabbi at Chabad of Indiana. The Zal is sponsored in part by grants from The Bananaschewitz Foundation and Schmendl's Herring Deodorant.

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What did the Chassidic Rabbi say to the Jewish guy who grew up with Matzo and Easter eggs? The Zal is an informal conversation on (usually?) profound ideas found in and beyond Jewish life and traditions. Tune in with Adam Valen Levinson, Sociology Fellow at Yale, and Dovid Grossbaum, Rabbi at Chabad of Indiana. The Zal is sponsored in part by grants from The Bananaschewitz Foundation and Schmendl's Herring Deodorant.

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Religion & Spirituality

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38. Should I Protest?

The Zal

35 minutes 38 seconds

2 years ago

38. Should I Protest?

Does engaging in (political) protest make a difference?

Is it apathy to stay home? Is silence concurrence? What is virtue and what is signaling?

These questions grow more pertinent with the spotlight on protests, from America, to Israel, to... Kenya.

Reporting from Nairobi is our man Adam, where national unrest had the city half-closed, with millions taking to the streets or deciding not to.

We tangle up a list of whys and why nots.

Here, take some credit:

Casino - What Am I Doing Here
Stephanie Chou - Perugia
The poignant and provocative Martin Niemöller poem