For Heaven's Sake

Presented by The Shalom Hartman Institute

Israel’s 10 Days of Awe: From Yom HaShoah to Yom HaAtzmaut

How do we observe national days of mourning when the nightmares of the past feel like the realities of the present?

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When a word carries history, burden, and identity all at once, can the Jewish people afford to let it go?

In this episode, Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi dissect the internal Jewish debate over the term Zionism, examining its classical promises of empowerment, the push to abandon it in the face of progressive critique, and why the term means something different in Israel and the Diaspora. Ultimately, they ask what it would take for Zionism to become not only defensible but inspiring again for world Jewry.

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