{"podcast":{"title":"Weird Being Jewish: Three Rabbis Walk Into a Podcast","slug":"weird-being-jewish-three-rabbis-walk-into-a-podcast-6928861","podcast_index_feed_id":6928861,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/531302/rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/531302","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/9/1/8/f/918f565fca8d048cd959afa2a1bf1c87/Copy_of_Copy_of_WBJv4_large-3.png","author":"Joshua Rose","episode_count":29,"summary":"What happens when three friends who are also rabbis get together to discuss Jewish life, religious life, rabbinic life and life life? Rabbis Jeffrey Weill, Matt Reimer and Josh Rose don't know but aim to find out. In the process they'll share their thoughts about pressing issues we all face - in the Jewish community and beyond.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-04T06:19:06.205061+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-being-jewish-three-rabbis-walk-into-a-podcast-6928861"},"episode":{"title":"S2E10 Are Jewish People \"A People\"?","slug":"s2e10-are-jewish-people-a-people","published_at":"2025-11-05T00:47:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-being-jewish-three-rabbis-walk-into-a-podcast-6928861/s2e10-are-jewish-people-a-people","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-being-jewish-three-rabbis-walk-into-a-podcast-6928861","url":"https://df5eebd6-2163-47f8-8a68-f15e4849c290.libsyn.com/s2e10-are-jewish-people-a-people","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/df5eebd6-2163-47f8-8a68-f15e4849c290/S2E10_Final.mp3?dest-id=4571497","summary":"Rabbi Josh Rose and Rabbi Jeffrey Weill open with quick banter about The Clash—correcting a claim that Allen Ginsberg wrote broadly for Combat Rock (it was a spoken-word feature on \"Ghetto Defendant\")—then pivot to their real topic: Jewish peoplehood. They trade personal moments that made peoplehood feel tangible: a wild wedding hora, a teenage son's ecstatic trip to Israel, and the fantasy of a synchronized, worldwide Shema. Both admit strong, visceral bonds to other Jews, yet note how personality, humor, music, and shared culture can sometimes trump tribal ties in day-to-day affinity. They then interrogate whether \"peoplehood\" exists or is better treated as an aspirational story worth preserving despite deep political and theological fractures. Weill recalls an Israeli guide who felt more kinship with an Arab Israeli bus driver than with U.S. Jews, raising questions about nationhood vs. Jewishness. He references Eric Alterman's We Are Not One to underscore disunity, while Rose argues the dream still has value even if the facts don't add up neatly. They close by distinguishing love for the Jewish collective from friction with particular Jews, debating \"myth\" vs. \"dream,\" invoking (and nitpicking) Herzl's \"If you will it…\" line, and, fittingly, ending where they began—on music.","meta_description":"Rabbi Josh Rose and Rabbi Jeffrey Weill open with quick banter about The Clash—correcting a claim that Allen Ginsberg wrote broadly for Combat Rock (it wa…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2295,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/weird-being-jewish-three-rabbis-walk-into-a-podcast-6928861/episodes/s2e10-are-jewish-people-a-people/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/weird-being-jewish-three-rabbis-walk-into-a-podcast-6928861/s2e10-are-jewish-people-a-people.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}