A critique of American Judaism with Joshua Leifer

I thought people might be interested in this conversation between Yehuda Kurtzer and Joshua Leifer. I don’t view Orthodoxy quite as positively as Leifer, and I think Kurtzer makes a great point about how assimilationist pressures also work within Orthodoxy, but I am pretty much in agreement with Leifer on everything else.

I think the last 10 minutes — in which Leifer discusses his sense of betrayal and alienation from the left, but anger and disappointment at mainstream Jewish institutions for their silence over the occupation and destruction of Gaza — will resonate with many people here.