Identity

Zionism: Still helping Jews save themselves

Israel’s government failed systemically, flamboyantly, from the coalition’s inception. The IDF’s border defense failed operationally and strategically.

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Idan Amedi for Prime Minister of Israel

We must spark Zionist- and Israel-positive conversations – mainstreaming the sentiments in Amedi’s songs and posts, quoting soldiers’ final letters and wills – and rejecting October 6 politics.
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The Next Generation of Israelis:  We need your Tonal Zionism

The heroism of young Israelis following the October 7 massacre has united the next generation and has led to a Zionist redemption
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Remembering David Ellenson, a Reform rabbi and Religious Zionist

The Reform world and the entire Jewish world are robbed ideologically because our friend, teacher, mentor, trailblazer, Rabbi David Ellenson, won’t be with us to make the old-new paradigms we need
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Israel-Hamas war isn’t just about security, it’s about Jewish peoplehood

This war has shown us that no matter where a Jew lives, their identity and feeling of safety is connected to the State of Israel. That brings with it a responsibility that Israel cannot ignore.
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Again

I know it’s not the Holocaust. So does my very sharp 92-year-old Holocaust survivor mother who remembers everything. She’s in a state of despondency and fear – again.
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Israel – from adolescence to adulthood

The actual collective picture is better than the image Israelis have of themselves. Still, the identity crisis casts its shadows on Israel’s sovereign existence, and its gravity should not be downplayed.
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If the Declaration of Independence Falls, Israeli Unity Will Fall Too

This last bastion of consensus is under attack. If it succeeds, there will no longer be any text around which the State of Israel and Israeli society can unite.
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How I Got Israel Wrong

A crisis such as the one we are going through in Israel is an opportunity for self-examination and soul-searching. I tended to believe that pragmatism would always win the day. I was wrong.
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Restoring the covenant of fate

If we wisely gird ourselves with constitutional arrangements on the rules of the game commonly accepted in liberal democracies, we will be able to restore our covenant of fate.
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