Israel in Modern Jewish Thought

Multiple version of the Al Hanisim prayer have been composed to thank God for Israel, each emphasizing different aspects of the Jewish state's creation.

Mordecai Kaplan, A.D. Gordon, and the future of Israel-Diaspora relations.

Do the various ideologies of Zionism allow for the practical coexistence of Jews and Palestinians?

A Zionist thinker who advocated a return to nature.

Beyond the settler movement.

Settling all the land.

Secular Zionism since 1948

Rabbis Kook and Soloveitchik offered differing views on what the modern state means theologically.

Yeshayahu Leibowitz believed traditional Judaism has no precedent for a modern Jewish state like Israel.

This Israeli philosopher saw problems with both secular and religious Zionism.