Webcast: Toward a New Civic Holiness? Ultra-Orthodoxy in the Post-Corona Era

Toward a New Civic Holiness? Ultra-Orthodoxy in the Post-Corona Era
with Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer
Sunday, May 24, 2020 | 11:00 AM EDT

The COVID-19 crisis has turned the world upside down: national economies around the world seem headed for far-reaching unemployment and possible depression; the free flow of people and commerce between nations has been radically curtailed; medical and educational systems are under great strain or not functioning at all; and all the problems of the world that challenged us before this crisis have not magically gone away. What are the key issues that American leaders should be thinking about on the world stage? How will the current economic and social crisis affect the world’s most dangerous and unstable nation-states? Will regimes fall—or fall into tyrannical or terrorist hands? How will the balance of power among the great nations—America, China, Russia—shift? And amid this crisis, what opportunities might exist, if any, to advance democratic freedom around the globe and to develop new forms of technological and social innovation?

No one has written about this issue with more insight, nuance, and wisdom than Tikvah’s own Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer. In an essay for Tzarich Iyun, Tikvah’s journal of haredi thought, Rabbi Pfeffer recently explored the principles and ideas that have been behind the haredi response to the virus and takes a hard look at the societal vulnerabilities this crisis has exposed. He’ll join us for a special Sunday edition of Tikvah Live, to discuss the latest developments in how the haredi world has reacted to the coronavirus.

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Webcast: Toward a New Civic Holiness? Ultra-Orthodoxy in the Post-Corona Era

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