Finding Connections - Chats with Rabbi Jonathan Freirich: Recent Episodes
Rabbi Jonathan Freirich
Conversations between people who care to make a difference in the world and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich, from Temple Beth Zion in Buffalo, New York.
A special edition of Building Better Stories including 30 minutes with Professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin, author of Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade, and more thoughts about James, by Percival Everett.
Should we teach Huck Finn in schools? This and so much more about the stories we tell and how they help us grapple with the real past, talk about real present challenges, and build a better future together.
Rev. Dr. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich explore mobility in all its forms and how we are free and hindered because of our access to mobility.
Thanks to Timothy Snyder’s work, “On Freedom” for inspiring this series.
Supported by a grant from Humanities New York and the generosity of the Buffalo History Museum.
Rev. Dr. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich discuss where we go on issues of DEI and Affirmative Action, remembering Roy Ayers, and more.
Rev. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich facilitate in-person and Zoom discussions, also live on FB, about what it means to be "free to" instead of "free from" using Timothy Snyder's insights from "On Freedom" paired with African American thinkers.
Rev. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich facilitate in-person and Zoom discussions, also live on FB, about what it means to be "free to" instead of "free from" using Timothy Snyder's insights from "On Freedom" paired with African American thinkers.
Inspired by Mary Anne Franks' "Fearless Speech" Rev. Dr. Wylie Hughes, Rabbi Jonathan Freirich, and guests, discuss how free speech and justice form a center in our struggles to make things better for everyone.
Honest, bold, and value-driven conversations about working towards justice in a society structured by predatory capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.
This week, we look at Adam Gopnik's, "A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism".
Let's collaborate in thwarting the historical efforts to prevent American from being a nation with a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
Honest, bold, and value-driven conversations about working towards justice in a society structured by predatory capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.
This episode, we look at John McWhorter's, "Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America".
Let's collaborate in thwarting the historical efforts to prevent American from being a nation with a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
Minority rule in America - its awful and long history, from the Constitutional Convention, to its harrowing present in State Houses and the Supreme Court - and what to do about it.
Talking about Ari Berman's excellent book: Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People - and the Fight to Resist It.
Honest, bold, and value-driven conversations about working towards justice in a society structured by predatory capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.
This week, we look at VP Kamala Harris' nomination - what are its impacts on patriarchy, misogyny, racism, and gender in America?
Honest, bold, and value-driven conversations about working towards justice and against the structures of predatory capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.
This week, we look at the environmental racism, especially in Buffalo, with expert Dr. Jennifer D. Roberts.
Live and in person from the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center, talking about housing inequity, the need for honest history, and so much more.
Honest, bold, and value-driven conversations about working towards justice in a society structured by unhindered capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.
This week, we look at the history of the racial wealth gap and what to do about it with the wisdom of Dorothy A. Brown's, The Whiteness of Wealth, to guide us.
Check out The Whiteness of Wealth here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/591671/the-whiteness-of-wealth-by-dorothy-a-brown/
Happy Juneteenth!
History of the holiday and what it means today.
How we celebrate and observe it and the challenges of inclusion and solidarity and retelling a better history all with the company of Kermit Roosevelt III's "The Nation that Never Was".
Honest, bold, and value-driven conversation about working towards justice in a society structured by unhindered capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.
This week, we consider the complexities and challenges of functional society and group formation using the thoughts inspired by the book: "Belonging without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World", by john a. powell and Stephen Menendian.
Check out the book and other interesting information here at the website for the Othering and Belonging Institute: https://belonging.berkeley.edu/belonging-without-othering
Honest, bold, and value-driven conversation about working towards justice in a society structured by unhindered capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.
This week, joined by Dr. Gabrie'l Atchison, we reflect on the legacies of Dr. King and Malcolm X and how they might apply with regard to activism and ideological purity and alliances for justice in 2024.
Starting off with responses to Professor James H. Cone's seminal work: Martin & Malcom & America: A Dream or A Nightmare.
Honest, bold, and value-driven conversation about working towards justice in a society structured by unhindered capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.
This week, we reflect on the conversation between Dr. King and Malcolm X regarding non-violence and refer to these works:
"This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed - How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible", by Charles E. Cobb, Jr
"Negroes With Guns", by Robert F. Williams
Honest, bold, and value-driven conversation about working towards justice in a society structured by unhindered capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy - with Rev. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich.
This week reflecting on points raised by Jim Wallis in his new book: The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy.
Honest and real conversation taking on the challenges of finding justice in a society woven by white christian nationalism. Rev. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich discuss.
Continuing conversations with profound attention to race consciousness with Pastor Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich and whomever wants to join. Topics include:
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How White Supremacy and "Winners Take All" capitalism stand in the way of seeing paths forward, and more ideas about what we can do about it.
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Public Discourse - how can we rekindle and improve it?
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What's next for multi-faith - is it possible to really use the teachings of our faith traditions to make progress under White Christian Nationalist hegemony?
...and more!
Continuing conversation with serious race consciousness between Pastor Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich.
Covering:
- The Black-Jewish Alliance - what happened to it and how to revive it?
- Public Discourse - can civil conversation return to civic life?
- The illiberal Left - can we revive liberalism among progressives?
The answers discussed - only when we pull apart the Gordian knot of White Supremacy, American misogyny and patriarchy, and anti-Indigenous genocide, for a start.
Pastor Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich are joined by Nanette Massey for a discussion of the challenges and opportunities of DEI currently and historically, what might or might not help directly impacted minorities in majority minority communities, and more.
Our first episode - why "colorblind" and "I don't see color" are unintentionally racist and other well-intentioned racist statements. There is no neutrality in aiming for anti-racism and we talk about how to get there.
A sermon given to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo on Sunday, February 23, 2020.
A personal and community-oriented exploration of the issues of personal spirituality, religion, and racial justice with Rev. Mark Blue, Pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Lackawanna, New York, and the President of our local NAACP.
Beth Steinberg and Kara Kane, the Director and Assistant Director of Temple Beth Zion's Religious School discuss how our experiences lead us to passions for education and communal transformation.
Andrew Deyell, Head of School at Elmwood Franklin School in Buffalo, New York, and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich, discuss life as religious people who are dedicated to creating pluralism in education and throughout our communities.
In anticipation of Rabbi Barenblat and Rabbi Markus joining us in Western New York next weekend, May 17-19, we chat about their backgrounds as rabbis and Jews and leaders who take teachings of the heart and apply them to improving the world.
The Senior Pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Tom Yorty, and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich, of Temple Beth Zion, chat about social action in religious organizations and how best to coordinate our communal work on issues of poverty and equity in Western New York.