{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/647090cd76120a00118bfab2/69ce8acb1d7024f1a7c3f5d5?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"\"You've got to Think for Yourselves!\"","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/647090cd76120a00118bfab2/1775143357805-9e31d780-a83d-4ea1-be50-1b46ad2a4c52.jpeg?height=200","description":"<h3>About This Episode</h3><p><a href=\"https://whojewthinkyouare.substack.com/p/everything-needs-to-change-and-daniel\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Jonas (guest from S2) </a>got in touch having listened to every episode of \"Who Jew Think You Are?\"</p><p>He had questions - 4 of them - just in time for Passover.&nbsp;</p><p>Questions about the assumptions and biases Eylan has, and what he’s learned from two seasons of conversations.</p><p>This is the result: an episode where the host becomes the guest, and is held to account for views on faith, Zionism and liberal values; testing blindspots, and exploring together the evolving sense of what a broader Jewish identity can mean.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3>About Daniel Jonas</h3><p>Daniel Jonas has Iraqi-Indian Sephardi heritage and brings a background in corporate innovation and interfaith dialogue to his engagement with Jewish tradition. He thinks seriously about Judaism as a legal and ethical framework, and about what honest inquiry requires. <a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/who-jew-think-you-are/episodes/67e6d8985fb59eadfcf7121e\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">He appeared in Season 2 (S2E3: ‘Everything needs to change’).</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h3>Key Topics</h3><ul><li>The assumptions baked into the podcast&nbsp;</li><li>Jewish essentialism: if everything can be Jewish, is anything Jewish?</li><li>Zionism: what the word still means, and where Eylan actually stands</li><li>Does this podcast matter?</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>Referenced in the episode</h3><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73584\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Guide for the Perplexed&nbsp;Maimonides</a>. Daniel cites it as the origin of honest inquiry within Judaism</li><li><a href=\"https://louisjacobs.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Rabbi Louis Jacobs</a>&nbsp;‘Judaism does not have a systematic theology’</li><li><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Lindy Effect</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Monty Python’s Life of Brian</a> ‘the most Jewish film ever made’</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>Past episodes referenced</h3><ul><li><a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/who-jew-think-you-are/episodes/68343d9669c98f151d8edd40\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">S2E4&nbsp;Unity Through Diversity (Dr Isaac Amon)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/who-jew-think-you-are/episodes/68c6a6366078db92016ebfeb\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">S2E6&nbsp;Dream and Still Rise (Michael Lomotey)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/who-jew-think-you-are/episodes/67e6d5655fb59eadfcf659af\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">S2E2&nbsp;A Persian Perspective on Nationalism and Identity (Professor Yaacov Yadgar)</a></li><li><a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/who-jew-think-you-are/episodes/65b3c64446ab6c0016a76d51\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">S1E9&nbsp;British Black Jews (Kenneth Awele Okafor)</a></li></ul>","author_name":"Eylan Ezekiel"}