Her Father Became a Religious Jew, Her Mother Turned to Buddhism, She Herself Became an Active ‘Hilltop Youth’ in the West Bank. Meet Dr. Karma Ben Johanan, Whose Life and Research Is Suffused With Radical Religiosity
In the months since Israel’s latest government was sworn in, questions relating to assimilation, defining Jewish identity and what it means to be a Zionist have been central to the public and political discourse, which in some ways is perhaps more heated and divisive than it has ever been. One useful addition to the discourse
We need to set aside the messianism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia in favor of a Jewish statehood that is rooted in Jewish identity yet suited to the modern world