About this episode

Maytal Kowalski discusses the turbulence in the Jewish world and her efforts to foster progressive conversations.

There is, shall we say, a lot of turbulence in the Jewish world right now. Sometimes that turbulence becomes toxic and conversations are polarizing. One person who wants to change all that is the Executive Director of a progressive Jewish thought leadership and lobby group called Jspace. Her name is Maytal Kowalski and she joins me from Vancouver on Not That Kind of Rabbi.

Topics covered

• Jewish world
• progressive Jewish thought
• polarizing conversations

Keywords

• Jspace
• Vancouver
• toxic conversations

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