zionism

There have been many Zionisms over the years. Only one has imagined an eventual end of Judaism.

Two Israelis, a lawyer and a rabbi, on the complicated relationship between religion and national identity

“It’s one thing to say you support a two-state solution. It’s another thing to go to Israel and study Judaism.”

From baby in a basket to liberating lawgiver, Moses has been all things to all people.

The history of Palestinian Christian interpretation of the Old Testament reminds us of the nuanced, fragile nature of life in that region.

How does theology shape Jewish democracy, in light of the many competing claims and complex relationships in the land of Israel?

Alain Epp Weaver offers a new conceptual bridge to explain the Israel/Palestine conflict to U.S. readers and to suggest a way forward.

"While Israel has more interfaith activity pro-rata than anywhere else in the world, all such activity involves a tiny percent of the population."

In a booklet titled Zionism Unsettled, a group of Presbyterians has issued a blanket denunciation of Zionism, terming the Jewish quest for a homeland in the ancient land of Israel inherently racist, exclusionary, and devastating for non-Jewish inhabitants. 

Jewish and Christian groups have rightly criticized the booklet for its sledgehammer one-sided approach, theologically and politically.

The Six-Day War, as Caitlin Carenen argues, represented a turning point in American Protestant views of Israel.

Is the goal of Zionism a democratic Israel with a Jewish majority? Or rule of the entire land, from the Mediterranean to the Jordan?

At American synagogues, Israeli settlement leader Ron Nachman gets a lot of questions. At churches he gets big checks.

It is difficult for Jews to talk about the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. It's also difficult for Christians to talk about it with Jews.

Todd Gitlin and Liel Leibovitz have written a thoughtful critical volume on the roots and
costs of chosenness as it pertains to historical and contemporary Israel
and the United States.

Three new books give fresh insights into the complicated history of
evangelical Zionism. Together they present a compelling argument that
the founding fathers of the modern state of Israel were not just
Theodor Herzl and his Zionist Congress, but American and British
evangelicals who exercised tremendous political and economic power in
the 19th century—power that modern-day evangelicals like Hagee and his
allies can only dream of.