The Israel–Hamas War and the Ethos of Jewish Peoplehood

SAPIR Institute Director Chanan Weissman is joined by Rabbi David Wolpe , visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School and the Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, and Dr. Mijal Bitton , a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and rosh kehillah at the Downtown Minyan in New York City. They discuss their recent SAPIR essays — Wolpe’s “ Wisdom in the Face of Destruction ” and Bitton’s “ That Pain You’re Feeling is Peoplehood “ — and delve into how Jewish tradition conceptualizes the responsibilities of the Jewish collective in a time of war.