Hannah Dreyfus is a freelance reporter with an unusual but essential beat: reporting allegations of sexual misconduct in Jewish organizations. In this episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer speaks with Dreyfus about her recent story on a former senior rabbi at Central Synagogue and the process of reporting out allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior in Jewish communal settings.
Dara Horn, author of 6 novels, many essays, and the forthcoming non-fiction book People Love Dead Jews, speaks to Yehuda Kurtzer about the nature...
Mentioned in today's episode: https://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_can_do?language=en Sukkah City https://forward.com/articles/132454/forward-50-2010/ Moonwalking https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301277/moonwalking-with-einstein-by-joshua-foer/ For more information on all of Hartman's digital summer programming, go to bit.ly/HartmanSummer
Identity/Crisis is a production of the Shalom Hartman Institute. Music by SoCalled. Links from this episode: Michael Walzer: https://www.resetdoc.org/story/citizenship-pluralism-and-political-action/ Mishnah Bava Batra 1:5: https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Bava_Batra.1.5?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en