Project 2025, Christian Nationalism, and American Jews - with Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson 9-19-24

In this critical conversation, author and columnist Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson explores the implications of Project 2025, a policy agenda coordinated by the Heritage Foundation that aims to reshape American governance under the banner of Christian Nationalism. Their vision poses profound challenges to the separation of church and state and could have far-reaching consequences for American Jews and other religious minorities.
Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson is a columnist for the Forward, a contributor to CNN, and a weekly commentator on religion and politics in his newsletter, Both/And. He has twice won the New York Society for Professional Journalists award for opinion writing, wrote the first long-form analysis of Christian Nationalists' redefinition of "religious liberty" in 2013, and was the first to report on Leonard Leo's impact on the Supreme Court, in 2018. Jay holds a JD from Yale Law School, a PhD in Jewish Thought, and nondenominational rabbinic ordination. Learn more about him and sign up for his newsletter at JayMichaelson.net.
Some links mentioned during the discussion include:
"What Makes 'Project 2025' So Dangerous" by Thomas Zimmer
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New York Magazine article on Opus Dey (behind a paywall):
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Author Bradley Onishi's prior conversation with Jews for a Secular Democracy about white Christian Nationalism is here:
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Jews for a Secular Democracy (jfasd.org) is a pluralistic initiative of the Society for Humanistic Judaism (shj.org).

[@moroteseoinage]

Project 2025 is the best way forward for America and Israel.
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[@thcarter123]

Jay recognized the danger Leonard Leo represented long before anyone else. 2018. Read his Daily Beast article. Even w all the recent reporting on Leo, Jay’s Daily Beast article remains one of the best comprehensive investigations of Leo out there.

[@mongofan1]

Thank you for this extremely important discussion.

[@sarahkragness7138]

Thank you, Dr. Michaelson, for the head's-up on Leonard Leo. Good job!

[@hwnsrfaboy43]

Thank you for the information There should be a movement and policy countering project 2025 and Authoritarian Christian Nationalism

[@danielbauer9027]

There certainly is. The heinous UN Project 2030.

[@jamaalrichardson4966]

What would be really helpful in understanding Project 2025 is some sort of infograph or schematic diagram that compares and contrasts how pertinent government operations work now and how they would possibly work in a post Project 2025 world. Long form narrative dialogues like this video and the numerous articles published on this subject are great, but that's all basically text based. Visuals would really cement a lot of what is vary much abstract.