Foreword
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President, Union for Reform Judaism
Preface
Rabbi Janet Liss, Chair, CCAR Israel Committee
Prologue: “Without a Vision, a People Will Perish”
Rabbi Stanley M. Davids
Acknowledgments
Zionist Theory and Zionist Politics
Myths and Facts: Zionism and Reform Judaism
Rabbi Michael Marmur
Peering into the Nationalist Mirror
Dr. Joshua Holo
To Be a Post-nationalist Zionist: A Theo-political Reflection
Rabbi Dr. Haim O. Rechnitzer
An Evolving Covenant: Renewing the Liberal Commitment to a Jewish Democratic State
Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, PhD
Social Justice and Universalism vs. Jewish Peoplehood and Particularism, and the Security of the Jewish State
Joshua S. Block
Between Judaism and Democracy: Arab-Palestinian Citizens of a Jewish State
Yoav Schaefer
In the Classroom and on Campus
Educating for Ambiguity
Rabbi Lisa D. Grant, PhD
Metaphor and Meaning 101: The College Campus as Battleground
Rabbi Leah Cohen, DMin
Coming Clean on Israel: An Honest Assessment by Two Rabbinic Students of Priorities for Our Future Rabbinates
Max Chaiken and Eric Rosenstein
Conversations across Generations and Continents
Old Words, New Vision: The Talmud and Liberal Religious Zionism
Jesse Paikin
A Letter to My Rabbi, from Your Favorite Twentysomething Congregant
Liya Rechtman
The Seventy Faces of Israel
Rabbi Danny Burkeman
An Intercontinental Dialogue: What North American and British Zionists Can Learn from Each Other
Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Neal Gold
Zionism, Liturgy, and Theology
Zion and Zionism in Reform Prayer Books
Rabbi Dalia Marx, PhD
I Have No Other Country: From an Israeli Rabbi Living in the United States
Rabbi David Ariel-Joel
Israel: Projection, Potential, and Self-Actualization
Rabbi David Z. Vaisberg
Zionism and Tikkun
Restoring Tikkun Olam to Liberal Religious Zionist Activism
Rabbi Noa Sattath
The Land’s Still Small Voice Beckons Us All: Preserving a Collective, Zionist Environmental Ethic
Professor Alon Tal, PhD
Is There a Common Ground?
Rabbi Joshua Weinberg
To Love and to Criticize: Diaspora Reform Zionists Must Make Our Voices Heard
Rabbi John L. Rosove
Afterword: Where Do We Go from Here?
One Liberal Zionist’s Vision for the Future
Rabbi Lawrence A. Englander
Appendix: CCAR Statements on Israel
CCAR Platforms: 1885–1999
CCAR Resolution: Expression of Love and Support for the State of Israel and Its People, 2015
For Further Reading
Contributor Biographies