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Ep. 347 – Influential Origins
Alan Mindel with Guest: Abraham Hamra (Part 3)**

In the powerful conclusion of this three-part conversation, Alan Mindel and Abraham Hamra dive headfirst into one of the most urgent debates facing the Jewish world today: identity, memory, and the dangerous cost of forgetting who we are.

With honesty, humor, and a shared willingness to challenge assumptions, Alan and Abraham trace the divergent histories of Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews — from assimilation in Europe to oppression in the Middle East — and reveal how these experiences shape today’s battles over Zionism, pride, antisemitism, and the modern American Jewish landscape.

They tackle generational complacency, the pitfalls of privilege, the rewriting of Jewish values, campus culture, DEI ideology, the erasure of Mizrahi trauma, and the critical need to teach our kids all sides of Jewish history.
Most of all, they make the case that the Jewish people — from Poland to Syria to Iran to Ethiopia — are one family with one shared destiny.

This is an unfiltered, heartfelt, and deeply human conversation about standing tall as Jews, fighting for others without losing yourself, and reclaiming the pride and unity that have sustained our people for millennia.

A gripping finale you won’t forget.

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