Unreasonable
Feeling overwhelmed by the relentless attack on American Democracy by the Religious Right? Welcome to Unreasonable: sane conversations for a country that's lost its friggin' mind. But Unreasonable is more than a podcast. It’s the start of a movement to reverse the inexorable rise of religious fanaticism taking over our government and our lives, on issues from public education, to women’s reproductive health, to the mainstreaming of loud-and-proud racism. Here we not only learn together what in the world's going on with our country, we develop an action plan to move America forward. It’s time for all of us who believe in the Separation of Church and State to unite — as the majority of Americans we are — in the name of democracy, common sense and kindness. Is that really so unreasonable?
Unreasonable
"The Conversion of the Jews" with Paul Golin
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah we talk with Paul Golin, executive director of the Society for Humanistic Judaism, an organization which promotes the concept of being Jewish absent a belief in God.
But as with so much of Judaism, it's not that simple. Jews and their history are laden with baggage.
For starters, is it a religion, a race, an ethnicity or a culture?
Are Jews obligated to adhere strictly to biblical scripture or read the Talmud for interpretive guidance?
Is marrying outside the faith a betrayal of those who died in the Holocaust?
Is it even possible to be a Jew without God?
Does being sympathetic to the Palestinian cause make you anti-Jewish? Does anti-Zionism equate with anti-semitism? If so, what are we to make of Jewish anti-Zionists?
That's a lot to unpack. But we dive in. On this episode of Unreasonable.
