Evolve

Episode 43: Reconstructionist Jews and the Struggle Over Israel’s Future

July 20th, 2023  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 5 mins

israel, jewish, judiasm, politics, protests, zion, zionism

Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., Reconstructing Judaism's president & CEO, and Rabbi Maurice Harris, Reconstructing Judaism’s Israel affairs specialist, have each just spent extended stays in Israel, immersed in conversations about its future as well as its relationship with Diaspora Jewry. They make an impassioned, moral defense of sustained engagement with Israel, even as they take a principled opposition to the government's attempts to strip away the country’s democratic character.