About this episode

The episode explores the evolving discourse within the Religious Zionist community amidst changing realities and perspectives.

Check out Orthodox Conundrum Commentary on Substack and get your free subscription by going to https://scottkahn.substack.com/ - and paid subscribers get this and other episodes of the Orthodox Conundrum Podcast ad-free and with early access and additional bonus content! I'm joined by Rabbi Zach Truboff and Daniel Goldman for a conversation about the changing discourse within the Religious Zionist community. Before diving in, a brief warning of sorts: this is an episode that listeners are likely to react to in very different ways. This is not a critique from the outside. All of us are speaking from within the Religious Zionist world. And it is not a debate about whether Israel has the right or obligation to defend itself. Instead, we focus on something more subtle, and more difficult: discourse. How we speak, how we think, and what feels legitimate to say within our community today. Over the past couple of years, and especially since the war began, many have sensed a shift in tone, in language, and in the range of acceptable views. Others, however, would argue that nothing essential has changed, or that any shift reflects a necessary and even positive response to a changing…

People in this episode

Host: Scott Kahn

Guests: Rabbi Zach Truboff, Daniel Goldman

Topics covered

• Religious Zionism
• discourse
• community
• morality
• war language
• perspectives

Keywords

• Religious Zionism
• discourse
• Israel
• community
• war
• morality
• perspectives

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Orthodox Conundrum, Substack

Places: Israel

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