Community Leadership Program

Citizenship and Belonging: ​Imagining Israeli Identity

Session from Rabbinic Torah Seminar (RTS) 2022 in Jerusalem
Dr. Masua Sagiv is a Senior Faculty member of the Shalom Hartman Institute and a senior fellow at the Helen Diller Institute, U.C. Berkeley. Masua’s work addresses the fundamental challenges facing both Israeli society and North American Jewish communities, from rising antisemitism and campus tensions to Jewish peoplehood and the complex relationship between Israel and world Jewry. Masua’s scholarly work focuses on the development of contemporary Judaism in Israel, as a culture, religion, nationality, and as part

What is Israeli Jewish identity today, and what can it be? Masua Sagiv describes Israel as a place where we can develop a thick Israeli identity that sits alongside our other various identities: Jewish, Muslim, Christian, etc.  This session was recorded on June 28, 2022 during the summer Community Leadership Program at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.

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