Loving the Real Israel: An educational agenda for liberal Zionism (an excerpt)

7/29/2019 Loving the Real Israel: An educational agenda for liberal Zionism (an excerpt)

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Liberal American Zionism must reframe the issue of connection with Israel

from being a one-sided problem, in which one party simply needs to love the


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other party more strongly, to being a maturing, dialogical relationship, in

which both partners have work to do in order to improve the relationship.

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