Zionism is the political creed, dating from early in the diaspora, that the old Jewish national homeland of Palestine should be regained by Jews and run as a national home and centre for world-wide Jewish solidarity. Although Zionism grew with...

The modern belief that the Jews should have a homeland, made concrete in the nineteenth and twentieth century program of developing the Land of Israel (the biblical Zion) as a Jewish state. While the idea that the Jews will have Zion as their homeland...

Movement dedicated to restoring the land of *Israel to the Jewish people. Since the destruction of the *Jerusalem *Temple in 70CE, the desire to return has been preserved in folklore and the *liturgy. The modern Zionist movement was launched in 1897 at...

In 2001 Palestinians claimed in an international conference that Zionism is racism, and that they are the victims of gross crimes against humanity at the hands of the Israelis. The charges are somewhat ironic, since the Jews created Israel as a...

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The terms "Judaism" and "Zionism" are best understood as designating two distinct political/intellectual traditions ("isms") in the history of Jewish thought and action. Neither term can be defined precisely because both movements have been highly diverse over their respective histories and have meant...

Richard Cohen Understanding Zionism By RICHARD COHEN The Washington Post Wednesday, September 5, 2001 In 1903, a pogrom swept through the ghetto of Kishinev, Russia. Forty-nine people were killed, 495 injured, countless women raped and about 1,500 stores looted....

Yivo's Board of Overseers, chaired by Marty Peretz, has reprinted the cover of Lucien Wolf's book The Myth of the Jewish Menace in World Affairs. And a handsome cover it is. On the back of the reprint, Yivo presumes to tell Wolf's biography. It goes...

Not to belabor the obvious, but my father was saying that these big sociological questions are going to be brokered and renegotiated beneath the surface, quietly, and Jews and gentiles will adjust to a new reality. Smart guy, my dad. I bring all this up...