The Gaza War Hasn’t Stopped Israel-Arab Normalization
Thomas Friedman’s “Rafah or Riyadh” fallacy.
May 7, 2024
Black-Jewish Dialogue in a Different Key
Friendship and the American story.
Aryeh Tepper is aggravated by the “pabulum-filled” events he has attended that offered forced attempts to foster black-Jewish dialogue. Yet his podcast co-host, Greg Thomas, was able to dragoon him into devoting an episode to the subject. The catch? Tepper is a religious Jew living in Israel; Thomas is an African American New Yorker: their dialogue is nothing out of the ordinary. The lively conversation that ensues moves from stickball games on the streets of Brooklyn to Saul Bellow hobnobbing with the black music critic and novelist Albert Murray in Paris in the 1950s. (Video, 28 minutes. Also available in podcast form.)
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