Writing a Torah of Peaceful Religious Zionism

What is the Torah that can inspire a more universalistic vision of religious Zionism? What role should interfaith work play in shaping this vision? Elana Stein Hain, Rosh Beit Midrash and Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, sits down with Yakov Nagen, Director of Ohr Torah Stone’s Blickle Institute for Interfaith Dialogue and Beit Midrash for Judaism and Humanity, to discuss his new book and his activism on these issues.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Article about a recent iftar (English)
• Articles in Hebrew
• Yaacov Nagen’s book

In the current Israeli government, religious Zionism is playing an ultra-nationalist and right-wing role. Is this what religious Zionism has to be? In her series Reclaiming a Religious Zionism that Embraces Darkhei Shalom (Paths of Peace), Elana Stein Hain has conversations with Israeli thought leader-activists who are working toward a different vision of religion and of religious Zionism.

This program is part of Ideas for Today, curated courses by Hartman Institute scholars on the big Jewish ideas we need to think better and do better.

Other sessions in the series:

• Promoting Democracy and Pluralism within Israeli Communities with former MK Tehila Friedman
• Connecting Israeli Interests with Jewish Values with Avidan Freedman and Dyonna Ginsburg