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Yom Kippur in Dizengoff Square
How should Judaism manifest in the public square in today’s Jewish state? Yehuda Kurtzer, Yossi Klein Halevi and Masua Sagiv discuss on the Identity/Crisis podcast.

Protesters shout at Israel Zeira (right), founder of the Orthodox Jewish group Rosh Yehudi, which set up a gender divider for a public prayer event on Yom Kippur in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)
On Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Hebrew calendar, Israeli Jews in Tel Aviv clashed about what it means for Judaism to manifest in the public square, tensions that relate directly to recent political battles over the character of the Jewish State. Yehuda Kurtzer sits down with Yossi Klein Halevi and Masua Sagiv to process these events and interrogate their emotional reactions to the protests, the integrity of Jewish prayer, the perils of partisanship, and what it means to be consistent in one’s commitment to democracy. Listen here:
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