In 1885 the framers of the Pittsburgh Platform of Reform Judaism declared that they no longer expected Jews to return to their national homeland in Zion: “We consider ourselves no longer a nation, but a religious community…” The events of the 20th century — including the Holocaust and Israel’s founding — eventually brought the movement around, but Rabbi Ammi Hirsch theorizes that the anti-peoplehood, anti-Zionist worldview of liberal Judaism never actually disappeared… Join Rabbi Hirsch for an overview of the Reform movement’s changing relationship with Zionism and to hear his analysis of where it stands today.

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