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166. What Does July 4th Mean To Us?

Talking Tachlis Podcast

English - July 05, 2022 13:32 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 86 ratings
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It's America's Independence Day, and we want to know how we should feel about that.  Are we proud to be Americans?  What does it mean to be patriotic?  Do we have a unique perspective on this as Jews?  How might other groups feel differently?  Rivky calls in from Israel for this international July 4th edition of Talking Tachlis.

NY Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/opinion/liberal-patriotism-july-fourth.html

Frederick Douglass Speech - What To The Save Is July 4th: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/

Grateful Dead - US Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr-iGxbALnc

Love Actually airport scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0fJSvGJOuI