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Barak Swarttz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
853 total appearances

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Digital Social Hour
Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

It's understanding you.

Digital Social Hour
Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

It's understanding your patterns.

Digital Social Hour
Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

It's understanding the conversation.

Digital Social Hour
Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

It's listening to us right now.

Digital Social Hour
Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

And so your timeline is essentially a reflection of like the things it's going to give you based on what you like to do, what you like to talk about.

Digital Social Hour
Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

that's a reflection, too, of what we're seeing on the internet.

Digital Social Hour
Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

And there's a lot of other things that have been, like, kind of sidelined, given all of the chatter on what's going on in the Middle East, which... And it's intentionally doing that.

Digital Social Hour
Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

It's trying to... Because your timeline is essentially going to dictate, possibly, likely, how you think about the conflict or any conflict in the world.

Digital Social Hour
Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

Yeah.

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Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

The echo chambers people live in.

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Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

I...

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Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

I think the reason I love hoops and basketball is because when I look at those four lines that I've been in my whole life, the court for me is really a sanctuary.

Digital Social Hour
Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

So my three closest friends, one's family's from Nigeria, one is from Haiti, and one is from Jamaica.

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Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

My closest friends are not Jewish.

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Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

None of them are Jewish.

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Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

When I moved to Israel in 2001, I told you that my parents come from a rabbinical background.

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Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

So we have this concept in Judaism called tikkun olam.

Digital Social Hour
Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

Tikkun means to repair and olam means the world.

Digital Social Hour
Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

So it's this concept of how do we repair the world in the ways that we can given who we are as people.

Digital Social Hour
Surviving a Car Bomb at Age 7: My Childhood in Jerusalem - Barak Swarttz | DSH #1610

Charity, volunteer, making the world a better place is really an integral part of the Jewish tradition and also me.