{"id":30259,"date":"2026-03-26T14:40:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/?p=30259"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:30:30","slug":"zionist-texts-for-the-seder-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/en\/zionist-texts-for-the-seder-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Zionist Texts for The Seder 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"direction: ltr;\">A Passover Korech \u2013 sandwich \u2013 using the Zionist Ideas to Zionize the Seder, so prepare to celebrate Israel\u2019s 78th by welcoming some Zionist thinkers to the seder.<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"direction: ltr;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JPPI-Passover-2026-LAST-1.pdf\">To download the full document, click here.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Introduction<\/h3>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Dear Friends,<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">This is the updated 2026 version of the supplemental Zionists texts for the Seder I\u2019ve shared annually since publishing\u00a0The Zionist Ideas\u00a0to mark Israel\u2019s 70th\u00a0birthday in 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">As we approach this year\u2019s Seder with \u2013 as of this writing \u2013 the\u00a0American-Israeli\u00a0War with Iran unresolved and Hezbollah bombing Israel regularly from Lebanon, it\u2019s easy to make one prediction: Israel and Zionism will be hot topics at most Seder tables worldwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Be open to honest conversations and serious questions, that\u2019s what the Haggadah is meant to encourage! I humbly offer my recent e-books: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/en\/the-essential-guide-to-october-7th-and-its-aftermath\/\">The Essential Guide to October 7 and its Aftermath<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/en\/the-essential-guide-to-zionism-anti-zionism-antisemitism-and-jew-hatred\/\">The Essential Guide to Zionism, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism and Jew-Hatred<\/a>,\u201d to help you clarify your thoughts before \u2013 or after.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">But please, please, don\u2019t let our enemies win. Avoid a defensive Zionism of the hunched back and the furrowed brow. They want every conversation about us to be about them\u2026 meaning about the conflict, the\u00a0rights\u00a0and wrongs of Israeli military strategy, etc. \u2013 and they want our Zionism to be conditional, contingent on Israel\u2019s \u201cgood\u201d behavior or whether we like Israel\u2019s government at the moment. Few American Jews approach their American identity that way. We remember that a patriot is someone who loves his or her country because of its politicians sometimes\u2026 but despite its politics always.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Use these texts to think more broadly \u2013 and celebrate. The Haggadah \u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">and these additions \u2013 remind us of how central Zionism, Jewish peoplehood, and the Land are to Judaism \u2013 for thousands of years, culminating with today\u2019s great adventure in Jewish Statehood. And, beyond appreciating it intellectually, take the opportunity to toast Israel and the Jewish people, highlighting all that we have accomplished in a blink of historical time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Wishing us all meaningful seders, a genuine peace spawned by victory, and a better world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>Chag\u00a0Sameach,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>Gil Troy<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Senior Fellow in Zionist Thought, The Jewish People Policy Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"direction: ltr;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/JPPI-Passover-2026-LAST-1.pdf\">To download the full document, click here.<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Passover Korech \u2013 sandwich \u2013 using the Zionist Ideas to Zionize the Seder, so prepare to celebrate Israel\u2019s 78th by welcoming some Zionist thinkers to the seder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","topics-identity"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30390,"href":"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30259\/revisions\/30390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}