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Video: Guns and Jews – The Challenge of Consensus Politics

Exploring what is at stake in this debate and how communities and organizations are navigating the challenging waters
Rabbi Steve Greenberg is a former faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, and senior teaching fellow at CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. Steve has broken boundaries and led the fight to make Orthodox Judaism more open and inclusive and accepting of homosexual members. Steve was featured in the acclaimed 2001 film Trembling Before G-d, about Orthodox gay Jews, and has appeared in more than 500 post-screening community dialogues

Recorded live at Judaism, Democracy, and the Ethics of Inclusion  
Thursday, June 12, 2014

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Constructing a Jewish position on matters of public policy is rarely simple. When the questions raised touch post-Holocaust sensibilities, constitutional rights, race politics, regional loyalties, and competing core Jewish values, as do the questions of gun legislation, the organized Jewish community must make choices.  We will explore what is at stake in this debate and how communities and organizations are navigating the challenging waters.  

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