Rabbi Pesach Wolicki - The Meaning of Zion, the Racism Claim, and Jewish Survival

Rabbi Pesach Wolicki returns to Hearts of Oak to discuss rising hostility toward Jews, the meaning of Zion, and the claim that Zionism is racism. He explains Zion as another name for Jerusalem and a biblical marker of what stands at the center of attention, and argues that antisemitism is not a problem Jews can solve. The conversation covers Jewish exile, survival, and return as a historical exception predicted in Scripture, Hamas’s naming of the October 7 attacks the “Al-Aqsa Flood,” and a newer Christian claim that today’s Jews are not the Jews of the Bible. It closes on political fear, demographic change, and hostility to Israel in the UK and Europe. Rabbi Pesach Wolicki is an Orthodox rabbi, author, and Executive Director of Israel 365 Action. Born in the United States and raised in Canada as the son of a rabbi, he moved to Israel in the early 1990s. He began his public work advocating for families of Israeli soldiers missing in action from conflicts in Lebanon and has since become a leading voice in Jewish-Christian relations. A former synagogue rabbi and dean of a yeshiva, he now lectures widely at Christian institutions and co-hosts the Shoulder to Shoulder podcast with Pastor Doug Reed.   Connect with Pesach... 𝕏                             @RabbiPW  https://x.com/RabbiPW                                 @Israel365News  https://x.com/Israel365News WEBSITES                 https://israel365news.com/                                  https://www.jpost.com/ Connect with Hearts of Oak… 𝕏                         x.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE            heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS        heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA  heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP                  heartsofoak.org/shop/ *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com and follow him on 𝕏 x.com/TheBoschFawstin