Mindful
Diamond Member
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This week’s question comes from a listener who pops in his headphones and hits “play” on Unorthodox on his Sunday morning run. We’re glad to be his running mate, and we hope our fast-talking inspires him to pick up the pace. His question is an interesting one: “Recognizing a general decline in levels of religious literacy—and noting that distortions of Judaism underlie much of anti-Semitism,” he writes, “my question for the crew is what misunderstanding or lack of knowledge of Judaism are you most surprised to encounter or most often encounter amongst regular, well-intentioned, people.”
As Stephanie mentioned a few episodes back, she was surprised to get to college and realize that some of her classmates, smart as they were, knew very little about the Holocaust. And during her freshman year, a frat boy who had just watched Munichinformed her that “ya’ll are a dirty people.” To this day she has not watched the film.
But there’s also the stuff well-intentioned people—not, you know, the people asking about horns—just don’t seem to get.
Ask Unorthodox: What Do People Get Wrong About Judaism?
As Stephanie mentioned a few episodes back, she was surprised to get to college and realize that some of her classmates, smart as they were, knew very little about the Holocaust. And during her freshman year, a frat boy who had just watched Munichinformed her that “ya’ll are a dirty people.” To this day she has not watched the film.
But there’s also the stuff well-intentioned people—not, you know, the people asking about horns—just don’t seem to get.
Ask Unorthodox: What Do People Get Wrong About Judaism?
