Last week when I was at the PresenTense Institute, Yossi Klein Ha’Levi (“One part Ideology, Two Parts Organization”) and many of the PresenTense fellows made a call for unity and pluralism in Judaism. While I was very excited to hear this message, I wasn’t sure how widespread this kind of thinking in the Jewish World really was.

Then today I heard a podcast produced by The Reform Jewish Blog, an interview with Uitz Jordan, or Y-Love, an orthodox Jew and “Torah Centered hip-hop” artist with music that is full of messages of unity and pluralism! Now I’m really starting to think that from New York to Israel, from Orthodox to Reform, Jewish people are making calls for unity and plurality. Heck, just the fact that the Reform Blog was interviewing an Orthodox Jew shows you that we’re really making a change.

“Unity brings elevation and Tikkun disunity brings death and destruction–unity if we’re not just going to survive but prosper” — Y-Love

Check out his blog at ThisisBabylon.net
Listen to his latest album at ylovemusic.com

My previous article about the PresenTense Institue and Yossi Klein HaLevi’s words