"I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand."

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"I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand."

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"How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt."

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"Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx."

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"I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it."

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"Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening."

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"But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide."

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"A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers."

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"I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand."

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