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"What to the American Jew Is This 4th of July?"

"What to the American Jew Is This 4th of July?"

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On this special Independence Day episode of Voices of Emanu El, Rabbi Josh Fixler asks a piercing question first posed by Frederick Douglass: “What to the American slave is your Fourth of July?” and then turns it toward the American Jewish experience. Tracing the bold promises of the Constitution and First Amendment, he explores how religious liberty for Jews in the United States has always lived in tension with exclusion, discrimination, and ongoing debates over church and state. Through the story of Irving Berlin and “God Bless America,” Rabbi Fixler paints a moving portrait of an immigrant Jew who wrote one of the quintessential American songs and was both celebrated and reviled for it. He invites us to hear it as a complex, beautiful song of gratitude, ambiguity, and hope, and to recommit ourselves so that America’s “glorious liberty document” may one day fully protect all her citizens.

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