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How Americans reshaped Israeli Judaism
We sit with Adam Ferziger to explore how liberal and moderate forms of Judaism, forged in North America, took root in Israel and helped shape a distinctly Israeli religious center
A crowd of Jewish-Americans hold a rally in support of Israel near the White House, in Washington, D.C., June 8, 1967. (AP)
How do ideas travel — and what happens when they cross borders? In this episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer sits down with author and historian Adam Ferziger to explore how liberal and moderate forms of Judaism, forged in North America, took root in Israel and helped shape a distinctly Israeli religious center.
Drawing on Ferziger’s new book “Agents of Change,” the conversation examines education, power, backlash, and belonging — and asks what it really means for Jewish ideas to be “imported,” translated, and transformed in a sovereign Jewish society.
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