Micah Goodman
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Sep 22, 2026
Noam WeissmanHOST
The secularism of the overall movement didn't scare them off.
Noam WeissmanHOST
In fact, the philosopher Micah Goodman points out that it was exactly this secularism that allowed observant Jews to become political Zionists in the first place.
Noam WeissmanHOST
Sounds counterintuitive at first, but think about it.
Noam WeissmanHOST
Political Zionism had never claimed to be a religious movement.
Hussein Abdul-HusseinGUEST
Some of them I admire and, you know, I've talked to and learned from.
Hussein Abdul-HusseinGUEST
Micha Goodman, for example, Catch 67.
Hussein Abdul-HusseinGUEST
And he was a great influence on me that I decided, okay, we need the equivalent on the other side.
Hussein Abdul-HusseinGUEST
That was one of the motives that I wrote this book, that we want many Micha Goodmans on the Arab side who discuss, if you read Micha, he doesn't really talk much about the Arabs.
Hussein Abdul-HusseinGUEST
He's only hammering the Israelis, how they should practice introspection and criticize their own selves, improve their own selves.
Hussein Abdul-HusseinGUEST
And this is my biggest goal is to have someone like me and many others like me, I'm not the only person who reads and writes on the Arab side, to start practicing this introspection, endorse the old Greek wisdom of know thyself.
ChayaLeah SufrinGUEST
I don't want to pretend this is my own idea.
ChayaLeah SufrinGUEST
Micha Goodman, who's a really interesting thinker in Israel, he's a writer, he wrote really great books.
ChayaLeah SufrinGUEST
I went to a class of his and he said, there's three things that Israeli Jews have that American Jews don't.
ChayaLeah SufrinGUEST
And I would take out the Orthodox community from this because when I say the three things, you'll be like, oh, but we do the same already, you know.