This is the Forward’s coverage of Zionism, the movement in support of the state of Israel as a homeland for the Jewish people.
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Community Unlike Seth Rogen, I was in charge of my own Jewish education – I’m still a Zionist
By now, I am sure you have heard of Seth Rogen’s latest comments regarding Israel. I wasn’t shocked by his comments, but I knew that they didn’t speak for me or my experience with Israel. I grew up in a small town in Iowa and there weren’t any Jews nearby for hundreds of miles. I…
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News Was a liberal Orthodox rabbi too ‘pro-Israel’ to head a Berkeley seminary?
Updated Aug. 14 at 10:00 a.m. Last fall, Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union made history by inaugurating its first non-Christian president — an Orthodox-trained rabbi — to lead the esteemed consortium for the advanced study of religion. The ceremony took place on Oct. 24 at UC Berkeley’s International House, where Rabbi Daniel Lehmann delivered his inaugural…
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News A USC student leader resigns amid accusations that her Zionism ‘made her complicit in racism’
The newly-elected vice president of the University of Southern California student government resigned on Wednesday, following accusations that she is a racist for her support of Israel as a Jewish homeland. Rose Ritch, a senior from San Francisco who was elected by the student body in February, said in an open letter to the USC…
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Community My article was controversial – and I talked to the haters
Hillel and Shamai, the exemplars of rabbinic and Jewish pluralism, have a dark secret that is seldom found on the many source sheets featuring these archetypal rivals. While most teachers focus on the many stories highlighting the high level of respect and civility between these two men and their respective study houses, we can find…
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News ZOA fires back at critics with official Conference of Presidents grievance
The Zionist Organization of America has filed a grievance against fellow members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, pushing back against its critics at a time when discord is testing the conference’s self-appointed role of representing the breadth of the Jewish community. The right-wing ZOA, which is financed by the casino…
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Community A 91 year old Zionist stands against annexation
Recently Prime Minister Netanyahu announced plans to annex parts of the West Bank to Israel—an area in vigorous dispute since the conclusion of the Six Day War in 1967. While the problems between Israelis and Palestinians are deeply entrenched, this unilateral move by Israel’s government is the most egregious in a culmination of Netanyahu-backed steps…
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Community Zionism is the Jewish Black Lives Matter
There is a particular irony when I hear those in the mainstream Jewish community touting the specious “All Lives Matter” slogan. No, this isn’t just about a betrayal of our ethical tradition demanding that we uplift the oppressed. Rather it is an irony that cuts so deep that this slogan actually undermines a belief shared…
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Fast Forward Jewish Harvard students form anti-Zionist organization
(JTA) — A group of undergraduate students at Harvard University has formed what they call an “anti-Zionist Jewish organization” that supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The Harvard Jewish Coalition for Peace introduced itself in a public statement posted Monday on Facebook as “a new organization founded in the idea that Jewish…
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