I CAN’T ASSOCIATE WITH EXTREMISTS (PODCAST)
The sweeping protests that have followed in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis have resulted in an overwhelming cross-section of support for a serious attempt to address systemic racism once-and-for-all.
But as Rabbi Dunner points out, bedfellows present a unique danger in popular movements, a lesson that can be drawn from history, and from one of the Torah’s best-known stories – the Korach rebellion.
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) Parshat Chukkat unfolds amid death, transition, failed leadership, poisonous speech, and unanswered questions. Rabbi Dunner explores why Moshe’s old methods no longer worked, how... Read More