Steven B. Smith, professor of political science at Yale University, is the author of Spinoza, Liberalism, and Jewish Identity, Reading Leo Strauss, and, most recently, Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Saul Bellow.
Observation ·
Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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In his superlative essay , Hillel Halkin resurrects what seems to be a purely antiquarian debate between Theodor Herzl and Ahad Ha’am over the nature of Zionism and the Jewish state. The debate grew...
Editor's Pick ·
The best response to delegitimizers is engagement with Zionism’s founding texts.
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Subsuming Judaism to liberalism.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
