Jewish education in the English-speaking world has concerned itself with the subject of Israel since the emergence of modern Zionism (Attias 2015; Chazan 1978, 2004, 2014; Dinin 1944; Kuselewitz 1958). Jewish high schools currently attempt to educate students to be personally and collectively pr...
This essay discusses the origins of Zionism and the factors that led to the founding of the State of Israel. Here the author argues that the birth of Zionism lies not in anti-Semitism per se, but in the Jews' realization of the failure of their own emancipation. The author takes the ...
A commission of inquiry for October 7 – which type? By LARRY M. GOLDSTEIN Modern Zionism: Embracing complexity, building a shared future Modern Zionism is gradually abandoning David Ben-Gurion’s “melting pot” approach, embracing instead a profound social transformation. ...
More specifically, Orthodoxy is defined in relation to the emergence of ideological alternatives such as Haskalah (the Jewish Enlightenment) and Reform (Katz 1986; Samet 1988; Silber 1992), and later, in relation to the emergence of Zionism (Salmon 1990). During the past decade, reservations to...
p. 37. Even before 1848, Jews had managed to obtain “an excellent modern education” despite the legal obstacles. Sometimes, where the interdictions were particularly strict, as in Piedmont, for example, the families with the greatest means provided for their children to relocate to those citie...
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gaza, Israel, Jewish power, Palestine, politics, The Israel Lobby, US imperialism, zionism US Imperialism or the Jewish Lobby? What drives America’s support for genocide? The View of the Left Most, but not all, the left, denies that the Israel Lobby is the most significant factor in the...
“TheSecond World Warmust be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During...
8. Love of and Critique of Israel Green’s consciousness of Oneness also has implications for his view on Israel and Palestine.9 He situates himself on the left side of Zionism, but he lives mostly in the United States. He writes about “our beloved State of Israel” (Green 2015b, p...
It speaks to the nature of Zionism that its most fervent practitioners are the least endowed with European morality. Even the most fervent Nazi understood that there is such a thing as truth. It was the Nazis, after all, who gave us the expression “The Big Lie.” That aside, even when...