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Dreaming of Zion: Encountering Ourselves and Others in the Promised Land

What does it mean to be in a relationship with Israel that engages both the imagined and real Israel, the familiar and the foreign?
Mijal Bitton
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Mijal Bitton

Dr. Mijal Bitton is a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, and the Rosh Kehilla (communal leader) and co-founder of the Downtown Minyan in New York City. Mijal received a BA from Yeshiva University and earned her doctorate from New York University, where she conducted an ethnographic study of a Syrian Jewish community with a focus on developing the field of contemporary Sephardic studies in America.  She is an alumna of the

Dreaming of Zion: Encountering Ourselves and Others in the Promised Land

The Israel that American Jews love, revile, or ignore is most often an imagined one relating more to our own American Jewish identities than to a real Israel. Mijal Bitton explores the dynamics of these imaginaries and the recent shift in the way Americans and American Jews think of Israel as a paradigmatic symbol. What does it means to be in a relationship with Israel in a way that engages both the imagined and real Israel, the familiar and the foreign?

NOTE: This program was part of our Summer 2021 Virtual Symposium,  Torah of Possibility for an Uncertain Future

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