Episode Number
93

Ben Caspit talks this week with Dr. Shivi Greenfield, Deputy Director General at The Jewish Agency and author of the recently-published book “Judaism and Liberalism.” Addressing the cleavage in Israel between secular and religious, Orthodox and liberals, extremists and moderate, Greenfield argues that “the Orthodox assume as granted that the Judaism as they understand it today is the authentic one, from ever. He says that the challenge is to make people understand that there is more than one version of Judaism.  

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