Exploring Jewish Identity and Matrilineal Descent

Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro debates Judaism, God, Zionism, and Israel in this conversation. Rabbi Shapiro is a distinguished author, speaker, and former pulpit rabbi with over 30 years of experience. A leading anti-Zionist intellectual, his seminal work, The Empty Wagon: Zionism’s Journey from Identity Crisis to Identity Theft (2018), argues that Zionism contradicts Judaism. His lectures have reached millions worldwide. For the Sake of Argument podcast: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jakenewfield Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4k9DDGJz02ibpUpervM5EY Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/for-the-sake-of-argument/id1567749546 Twitter: https://twitter.com/JakeNewfield Timeline: 00:00:54 - Is Judaism an ethnicity? 00:14:15 - Are you actually Jewish? 00:22:12 - Is Infinity real? 00:56:33 - Is Anti-Zionism Antisemitism? 01:05:38 - Do you get along with other Rabbis?

1:10:00 - Zionism vs Judaism