SNAPSHOT FIVE: THE OLD NEW

The emergence of Zionism in the late 19th and early 20th century upended a nearly 2000 history of Jewish statelessness. Zionism presents itself as the essential tool for Jewish survival in a world that has never ceased to turn against its Jewish citizens. And yet it also poses a challenge to the view of Judaism as a universal faith - one that need not be rooted in a particular soil. In this session, we will address this conflict as we seek to understand our relationship with the Jewish state.