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Old Jew, New Jew, Israeli Jew: A Fresh Look at the Jews of Zion

Three-part series led by Mishael Zion uncovering the most recent innovations in Israeli Jewish Identity through text, music, food, and fashion.
Rabbi Mishael Zion is founder of Kehillat Klausner in Jerusalem and founding director of the Mandel Leadership Institute’s Program for Leadership in Jewish Culture. He is formerly a fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Together with his father, Noam Zion, he is the author of A Night to Remember: The Haggadah of Contemporary Voices (2007) and of The Israeli Haggadah (2004 and 2024). Mishael holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology and

Old Jew, New Jew, Israeli Jew: A Fresh Look at the Jews of Zion

Where does the search for New Israeli Jewish identity stand today? How does it relate to American Jewish identity? What is the Israeli-Jewish version of the questions around race, ethnicity, and gender with which our cultural worlds are currently grappling?

Zionism was never just a political project, but a cultural one – to create a new type of Jew. This new Jew would reign sovereign not only on land, but their own life. But the New Jew, borne out of a rejection of diaspora Jewish life , ended up being redefined again and again in Israel by the myriad Diasporas that came to Israel – from North Africa, the Middle East, the USSR, and North America. Indeed, today we are seeing a renaissance of Israeli Jewish cultural identities, but it isn’t exactly what the founders had in mind. Mishael Zion uncovers the most recent innovations in Israeli Jewish Identity through text, music, food, and fashion.

Session 1
Recorded on February 16, 2022

Session 2
Recorded on February 23, 2022

Session 3
Recorded on March 2, 2022

This series is part of Ideas for Today, a yearlong offering of curated courses led by leading scholars addressing the compelling contemporary Jewish issues of the day.

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