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Podcast: uncommon good with pauli reese
Episode: Rabbi Emily Cohen: Find Your Tribe. Tell Your Story. Make it Yours.
Description: What does progress and change look like in contemporary Judaism? What do Hamilton and Passover share in common? Where's the best 3-dollar-slice in Brooklyn? Emily Cohen is a Reconstructionist Rabbi serving the West End Synagogue in NYC, and a keen choral musician. She is a founding member of Tirdof: New York Jewish Clergy for Justice.
CONTENT WARNING: indirect discussion of anti-semitism, white privilege and supremacy, COVID, discussion of discrimination against patrilineal Jews, non-Ashkenazi Jews, and queer jews.
Rabbi Emily talks about Reconstructionist Judaism, writing the Hamilton Haggadah and getting it in front of Lin Manuel Miranda, the importance of Passover...