Israel in Modern Jewish Thought

A Reform declaration of Zionistic belief

In viewing Judaism as a religion and not a nation, Reform Judaism saw the early Zionist movement as a threat.

A radical Orthodox rabbi, poet and mystic who devoted his life to synthesizing some of the most complex and contradictory trends in Jewish tradition.

While most ultra-Orthodox Jews oppose Zionism in some way, groups like Neturei Karta and the Satmar Hasidim do not recognize the modern State of Israel.

In modernity, Jews have believed in various kinds of Zionism--and some have also stood in opposition.

Religious Zionists believe that the Jewish return to Israel hastens the Messiah.

New Historians, new understandings of the past, and recent critiques of Zionist discourse