How do we respond with gratitude toward someone whose values and policies we otherwise oppose?

In this episode of TEXTing IRL, Elana Stein Hain is joined by civic educator and Hartman research fellow Tamara Mann Tweel to explore what Jewish tradition can teach us about uncomfortable gratitude, the cognitive dissonance created when someone we find morally troubling takes an action we support, and how we can respond when deliverance comes from a flawed source.

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In this special series, TEXTing: IRL – Ideas for Real Life, host&nbsp;Elana Stein Hain&nbsp;sits down with guests who are accomplished practitioners in their fields to explore how classic and modern Jewish texts can help us&nbsp;wrestle with&nbsp;and act with integrity in the face of&nbsp;the big dilemmas of our time.


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