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Debating Zionism with Dr. Micah Goodman

Delve into Zionism's Great Debates

As Israel turns 75, Tikvah invites you to join Micah Goodman for an exploration of Zionism’s greatest thinkers and their most important and enduring debates

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All course sessions are pre-recorded. You will be emailed a link with every video in this series upon registration. You can watch them at your own pace, as many times as you like.


Who were the original leaders and thinkers of modern Jewish nationalism? What moved them? What were their political teachings and key disagreements? In this special 3-part series, leading Israeli thinker and author Dr. Micah Goodman will help us see how the founding disagreements within Secular Zionism, Religious Zionism, and Ultra-Orthodoxy can shed light on the spirit of Jewish nationalism and the internal social and religious conflicts that Israel still faces today.

When you sign up, you will: 

  • Explore the key ideas and disagreements of some of Zionism’s essential thinkers, including Theodor Herzl, Ahad Ha’Am, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines, and others. 
  • Probe the dynamic relationship between secular Zionism and ancient Jewish tradition, from the late 1800s to present day.  
  • Examine how conceptions of Zionism among secular and religious Jews have diverged over time. 
  • Better understand Ultra-Orthodox Jewish theology, and how that community confronts the Zionist challenge to those ideas. 

Micah Goodman was named by the Jerusalem Post as one of the 50 most influential Jews in 2017, and by the Israeli magazine Liberal as one of the 100 most influential Israelis in 2019. He is the author of six bestselling books. His first three—Moses’s Final Speech, The Dream of the Kuzari, and The Secrets of the Guide for the Perplexed—explore classical Jewish thought. His next three—The Wondering Jew, Catch 67, and The Attention Revolution—explore contemporary Israeli issues and ideas. Dr. Goodman is one of the founders of Mabua – Israeli Beit Midrash. He is also a Research Fellow at the Kogod Research Center of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, and—alongside Efrat Shapira Rosenberg—hosts the popular Israeli podcast “Mifleget Hamachshavot” (“The Party of Thoughts”), produced by Beit Avi Chai.

Registration

 

  • We kindly suggest a donation of $100 to support Tikvah’s important educational programming on Jewish and Zionist ideas. The Tikvah Fund is a 501(c)(3) charity classified as a private operating foundation.
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  • All course sessions are pre-recorded. You will be emailed a link with every video in this series upon registration, and you can watch them at your own pace, as many times as you like. If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback, please contact us at info@tikvahfund.org.

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