A surprising number of American Buddhists are Jewish, enough to earn the nickname JewBus. For many, Buddhism offered the stillness and spiritual immediacy they felt missing in synagogue life.
Yet their search for meaning often revealed spiritual depths and mindfulness within Judaism they hadn’t seen before. What began as a journey East became a rediscovery of their own tradition.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:34 Judaism in America after the Hol0caust
2:13 Why were Jews attracted to Buddhism?
4:35 Buddhism’s view of suffering
5:04 Jewish American Buddhists today
6:56 Judaism as a spiritual path
8:16 Jewish influence in Buddhism
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Is Judaism the Hardest Religion?
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Image/footage credits:
Edward W. Bastian
Samuel Magal
Shenpen Dorje
Evgenii Kravchenko
Jay Inslee
Rodger Kamenetz
Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Dumb Zone
WBNX-TV 55
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