The novelist Joshua Cohen on this week's show:
"I think that there is a strain of Jewishness, let's say, so as not to say the word Judaism, that is deeply diasporic, and it is in some way a product of a negative theology. It is essentially the idea of saying, 'No.' It is the refusal to join."
"I think that there is a strain of Jewishness, let's say, so as not to say the word Judaism, that is deeply diasporic, and it is in some way a product of a negative theology. It is essentially the idea of saying, 'No.' It is the refusal to join."
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Cohen says, "And it's that 'no' that, to my mind, represents the essential freedom-giving element of my tradition, or at least the tradition as I construe it."
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