Rabbi David Wolpe on Leadership, Religion, and Identity (Live at Sixth & I)
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The Importance of Empathy in Capitalism
The weight of Jewish intellectual opinion in the United States has mostly been on the left. I think it's very hard to make the case that certainly communism or even socialism is the Jewish, says Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Conservative Judaism lost over 600,000 members 15 years after Otis Israel moved from New York to Tel Aviv. Unless there is a compelling, non-fundamentalist rationale for why I should eat a certain way and why I shouldn't go out on Saturday, many rabbis have tried to maintain the cohesion of the tradition.
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