Zack Bodner: Judaism Unbound Episode 302 - Doing Jewish
Zack Bodner, CEO of The Oshman Family JCC and author of Why Do Jewish? A Manifesto for 21st Century Jewish Peoplehood, joins Dan and Lex for a conversation about his book. They also explore together what makes West-Coast Judaism distinctive, along with whether the digital world is itself a new kind of geographic "coast."
[1] Learn more about Zack Bodner, and purchase Why Do Jewish? A Manifesto for 21st Century Jewish Peoplehood, via whydojewish.com.
[2] For Bodner’s previous appearances on Judaism Unbound, see Episode 61: Wandering in the Wilderness - Zack Bodner, Tova Birnbaum, and/or Episode 128: Zionism 3.0 - Zack Bodner.
[3] Bodner mentions his own family’s celebration of a Bar Mitzvah on Zoom. For more on this, see his article “How a Silicon Valley mindset helped us host an epic Zoom Bar Mitzvah.”
[4] For an article looking at Why Do Jewish, see J Weekly’s “In new book, Palo Alto JCC boss wants you to ‘do Jewish,’” written by Emma Goss.
