Sour Milk, Shots of Gin, and Dual Loyalty

The Rabbi’s Ten Days of Repentance began with a bowl of cornflakes topped with rancid milk, which somehow leads to him doing shots of Gin on Simchas Torah…with an MIT fraternity.

Once we helped him process the milk tragedy, we get into our real discussion.

We talk about:

• Is it American-Jew or Jewish-American? And what two thousand years of never quite belonging has to do with it.

• Why Jewish emancipation made antisemitism worse, and why America is the one country besides Israel where being Jewish has nothing to do with your rights

• On the accusation of dual loyalty: Why pointing the accusation at Jews is BS because everybody has more than one loyalty.

• Haredim, the Amish, and the woman on the train who yelled at the wrong guy in a black hat

• Three sayings put on trial: everything happens for a reason, God doesn’t give you more than you can handle, and suffering makes you stronger.

Pour yourself something that isn’t gin, hasn’t gone sour, and join us.