From the Hartman Institute

The promise and peril of Jewish power

Can Zionism survive a crisis of its own making? We explore whether Zionism has adequately reckoned with its own vulnerabilities, assumptions, and failures.

People tour Mount Masada, near the Dead Sea in southern Israel, on July 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Can Zionism survive a crisis of its own making?

In this episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer sits down with Zachary Truboff, director of the Institute for Agunah Research and Education at the International Beit Din, to discuss the moral and political questions facing Israel after October 7.

As Israelis grapple with war, trauma, and the responsibilities of power, they explore whether Zionism has adequately reckoned with its own vulnerabilities, assumptions, and failures. Their conversation examines the tension between victimhood and agency, the demands of collective responsibility, and what it would mean for Zionism to undergo a process of teshuvah of its own.

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