May 10, 2022
The State of Israel serves as a powerful symbol to Jews around the world. Different Jews expect the State of Israel to serve different purposes in the world and in Jewish life.
Elana Stein Hain will explore the varied ways that people envision Israel’s purpose and meaning and how these visions can conflict with one another. She will examine how we arrive at our sense of what Israel’s purpose should be, and how that imagination colors our responses to messier realities. And throughout, we will consider the roles of both humility and activism in our relationship to Israel.
Sponsored by The Louis & Moshe J. Weisfeld Annual Memorial Lectures
With appreciation for the generous support of the
