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– anti-Zionism? How is it that the very 8. Is it truly possible to separate religion
Jewish state that Herzl believed would and state in Israel and how is this issue
solve antisemitism is today the source of it? unique to the unity of a Jewish state?
2. Why did antisemitism change from 9. What is the connection between the
opposition to Judaism and the Jewish unity of the Jewish people and Yishaya-
people to opposition to the Jewish state? hu’s prophetic call to be “a light unto the
How can it be that in living memory of the nations”?
Holocaust it is as dangerous for a Zionist 10. How can Israel’s greatest political
Jew today to walk the streets of Damas- leader, King David, guide us to a sustain-
cus, Ramallah or Baghdad as it was for a able solution?
European Jew in Berlin, Warsaw or Vienna
in 1940? Jewish sovereignty has invoked both
fierce antagonism and enormous oppor-
3. Why have the Arab world and the Pal- tunities for the future of Jewish destiny.
estinians consistently turned down every What is required are new paradigms for
offer of a two-state solution for over 80 thinking about the Jewish state – both its
years? Why will they not accept a Jewish challenges and potential solutions. Issues
state and an Arab state, side by side in relating to collective Jewish destiny ought
Eretz Yisrael? to be viewed through a spiritual paradigm,
4. Why have all conventional paradigms reflecting the Divine mission that the
of diplomacy and peacemaking dismally Jewish people have always believed has The Jewish State - From Opposition to Opportunity will
failed thus far in the Israeli-Palestinian been bestowed upon them. The Tanach, be launched at the World Orthodox Israel Congress,
conflict? Why did one of the world’s great- the book of books reflecting the Jewish following Yom HaAtzmaut.
est peacemakers, Professor Padraig O’Mal- people’s great contribution to humanity,
ley – who played a significant role for over has much to contribute to the pressing and a paradigm for its internal unity. The
twenty five years in achieving peace in issues of our time. biblical figures of Avraham and David are
war-torn Northern Ireland and then spent It is impossible to fathom the unique the founding pillars of Jewish nationhood
twenty years aiding apartheid South Afri- phenomenon of Jewish destiny without and sovereign leadership respectively,
ca’s peaceful transition to democracy in reflecting on our ancient and sacred texts and they serve to anchor some of the
1993 – give up his attempts for peace in and the interpretations of our great sages central ideas presented, particularly Rav
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after five to assist us in better framing and under- Kook’s unique recipe for Jewish unity. The
years, coining the phrase “The Two State standing the issues of the hour. Modern book will engage in Yishayahu’s vision
Delusion”? Is it possible that the solution Jewish sovereignty may be an innovation of a Jewish state being ‘a light unto the
to the sustainability of a Jewish state lies of the 20th century, but this is not the first nations’ – being a positive example of how
not in the realm of geopolitics but in meta- time we have been a sovereign nation, and modernity and morality, statecraft and
physics – that the ultimate solution is a not the first time we have faced violent spirituality, particularity and universality
spiritual one and not only a political one? opposition to our sovereignty. can be woven together for the sake of a
5. Why is the world disproportionately Weaving together ideas from great think- better spiritual and ethical world.
obsessed with the Jewish people – termed ers and leaders, this book will grapple with
by a leading historian of antisemitism as these big questions: A phenomenal idea
a “lethal obsession”? Why is the Jewish of the Gaon of Vilna on the categories of
state judged by a double standard and a antisemitism and their biblical anteced-
higher moral expectation than every other ents; Professor Robert Wistrich’s historical
nation? research which bears this out; Rabbi Avra-
ham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, Zionism’s
6. What can the Tanach teach us about greatest rabbinic leader, on the meaning
addressing the vehement opposition to of a Jewish state and his remarkable
Jewish statehood and the deep divisions thesis of how to unite it; and Rabbi Lord
and ideological diversity within Israeli Jonathan Sacks, arguably the greatest
society today? Rabbi Doron Perez
rabbinic thinker and moral leader of this is the Executive Chairman
7. Is there a recipe for unity in Israel today generation, on the modern mutation of of World Mizrachi.
that will allow the different ideological antisemitism and the meaning of Jewish
camps within Israeli society to move from destiny. Infused with a spirit of Religious Join me at the
continuous conflict and confrontation to Zionism, this book presents a new-old World Orthodox Israel Congress Est. 1902
orthodoxisraelcongress.org
harmoniously living together? contemporary vision of Jewish statehood 120 YEARS OF RELIGIOUS ZIONISM

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