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Resolutions of the Zionist Congress Xxxvii
1 2 RESOLUTIONS OF THE ZIONIST CONGRESS XXXVII TABLE OF CONTENTS NO. TITLE PAGE 1 The Declaration of Independence as a Zionist Tool 4 2 Non-Stop Zionism 4 3 WZO Involvement in Israeli Society 5 4 The Unity of the Jewish People 5-6 5 The Restitution of Jewish Refugees' Property 6 6 Recognition of the Jewish People as Indigenous to the Land of Israel 6-7 7 Preserving a Healthy Climate for Israel’s Future 7 8 Protecting Israel’s Water Supply from Pollution 7-8 9 Appropriate Zionist Response 8 10 The Intensification of Zionist Advocacy (Hasbara) 8 11 National and International Issues 8-9 12 The State of Israel’s Relations with USA Jewry 9 Deepening the Connection between Israeli Society and Communities of Israeli Yordim 13 9 in the Diaspora 14 Israeli Government Initiative with the International Jewish Community 9-10 15 Zionist Movement Activity in Light of Escalating Antisemitism 10 16 Aliyah Promotion and Countering Antisemitism 10 17 Withholding Funds from Entities Hostile to Israel 11 18 Development of Young Zionist Leadership 11 19 Establishment of an Institute for Zionist Education 11-12 20 Prevention of Assimilation 12 21 Young Leadership 12 22 Ingathering of the Exiles (1) 12-13 23 Ingathering of the Exiles (2) 13 24 Ingathering of the Exiles (3) 13 25 Enhancement of Activity to Promote Aliyah 13-14 26 Hebrew Language #2 14 27 Aliyah 14-15 3 NO. TITLE PAGE 28 Absorption of Ethiopian Jews 15 29 Establishment of an Egalitarian Prayer Space at the Western Wall 15-16 30 The Druze Zionist Movement 16 31 Opposition to Hate Crimes 16 32 Refining -
Aliyah and Settlement Process?
Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel HBI SERIES ON JEWISH WOMEN Shulamit Reinharz, General Editor Joyce Antler, Associate Editor Sylvia Barack Fishman, Associate Editor The HBI Series on Jewish Women, created by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, pub- lishes a wide range of books by and about Jewish women in diverse contexts and time periods. Of interest to scholars and the educated public, the HBI Series on Jewish Women fills major gaps in Jewish Studies and in Women and Gender Studies as well as their intersection. For the complete list of books that are available in this series, please see www.upne.com and www.upne.com/series/BSJW.html. Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo, and Galit Hasan-Rokem, editors, Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture Tova Hartman, Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation Anne Lapidus Lerner, Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry Margalit Shilo, Princess or Prisoner? Jewish Women in Jerusalem, 1840–1914 Marcia Falk, translator, The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible Sylvia Barack Fishman, Double or Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage Avraham Grossman, Pious and Rebellious: Jewish Women in Medieval Europe Iris Parush, Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Eastern European Jewish Society Shulamit Reinharz and Mark A. Raider, editors, American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise Tamar Ross, Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism Farideh Goldin, Wedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman Elizabeth Wyner Mark, editor, The Covenant of Circumcision: New Perspectives on an Ancient Jewish Rite Rochelle L. -
Statement of Principles of Zionism
STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES OF ZIONISM AS ADOPTED BY THE AZM NATIONAL BOARD JUNE 4, 2018 The American Zionist Movement (AZM), comprising 28 national Jewish Zionist organizations, links the diverse American Jewish community in support of Israel, Zionism and the Jewish People. The AZM and its constituent organizations represent American Zionists within the National Institutions of Israel, including the World Zionist Organization (WZO). The AZM and its constituent organizations fully support and 1 endorse The Jerusalem Program of the WZO, the global statement of the beliefs of the Zionist movement. The American Zionist Movement (AZM), through action and deed, supports these principles: The sovereign state of Israel’s unconditional right to exist as the Jewish democratic homeland; The right of the people of Israel to live in peace and security; Pride in the common history, culture, destiny and religious heritage of the Jewish people; Pride in Israel’s rich contributions to the world and its aspirational role to be an exemplary society for all of humanity; and Israel’s centrality to Jewish identity and life. Zionism Forward is the AZM’s campaign to: Strengthen support for Israel, the Jewish people and Zionism. Celebrate the ideology and cause of Zionism. Help strengthen Israel’s position in the global family of nations. Improve the dialogue on Zionism in America and participate in a new effort to guide the American Jewish people to speak in a unified and informed voice in support of Zionism's core principles. Provide the forum that fosters our diverse constituent Zionist organizations’ respectful coalescence around our commonality. 1 The JERUSALEM PROGRAM is the official platform of the WORLD ZIONIST ORGANIZATION and the global Zionist movement, having been most recently amended and adopted in June 2004, as the successor statement to the “Basel Program” of 1897 adopted at the First Zionist Congress convened by Theodor Herzl. -
Redefining Zionism
A REPRI~T nOM Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought Vol. 35. No.3. Summer Issue 1986 I Redefining Zionism SIDNEY H. SCHWARZ I DO NOT KNOW PRECISELY WHEN ZIONISM became a term without meaning. Perhaps it was inevitable that when. beyond all practical or ideological expectations. the Zionist movement gave birth to the State of Israel. the care and feeding of that infant politi cal entity had to take precedence over the cultivation of the dream. Per haps. too. Zionism is the ironic victim of precisely the dynamic which it sought to remedy - it has been defined for us by the non-Jewish world. Whether it is the interchangeable use of the terms Zionism. Israel. and Jewish by the media or the protests by Jews that anti-Zionism is the same as anti-Semitism (which may sometimes be the case but adds to the unfor tunate blurring of distinctions). the result has been the loss of the term Zionism as a significant. meaningful concept. The degeneration of the term Zionism received added impetus in 1 1975 when the United Nations passed its infamous "Zionism is racism" resolution. Thousands of well-intentioned Jews donned the button "I am 1 • I a Zionist" as signs of support for the State of Israel. but few knew what Zionism really stood for. I In Israel. the sense that Zionism died when Israel was born. having I then achieved its primary objective. is prevalent. More often than not. j when I try to speak to Israelis seriously about Zionist ideology. they laugh. -
Before the Tribunal of the American Zionist Movement PREAMBLE
Before the Tribunal of the American Zionist Movement COMPLAINT THE COORDINATING COUNCIL FOR THE JEWISH HOMELAND/ERETZ HAKODESH, Complainant v. Hatikvah, Respondents TO THE CHAIR AND JUDGES OF THE TRIBUNAL: The Coordinating Council for the Jewish Homeland (“Eretz Hakodesh” or “EHK”) hereby submits its Complaint Hatikvah slate (“Complaint”) concerning their abandonment and contravention of the Jerusalem Program. EHK respectfully requests the American Zionist Movement (“AZM”) Tribunal annul the Hatikvah slate of delegates to the 38th World Zionist Congress and bar the certification of mandates to persons listed on those slates, in accordance with the directive of the Zionist General Council. PREAMBLE As a new entrant into the elections for the World Zionist Congress, Eretz HaKodesh focused its energies upon positive election efforts, rather than negativity from other campaigns. The filing of utterly baseless and denigrating complaints from multiple liberal slates forced us to carefully examine the election rules and requirements, and what we discovered was an alarming double standard. Hatikvah openly discards the Jerusalem Program via and beyond its support of partial BDS. This is entirely in opposition to the Constitution of the World Zionist Organization, and especially the explicit ruling of the Zionist General Council that an organization supporting even partial divestment from territories controlled by Israel is in violation of the Jerusalem Program, and must be excluded from the Zionist movoment. EHK Complaint v. Hatikvah page 1 RULES I. The WZO Constitution and Jerusalem Platform Provide Clear Regulations and Guidelines. The World Zionist Organization (WZO) is an institution premised on the fundamental principles of Zionism, as defined in the WZO Constitution. -
UJS Conference 2020 Motions
UJS Conference 2020 Motions Campus Motion Title: CA3 Fighting Antisemitism with the Jewish Labour Movement Proposer’s name: Jack Lubner Proposer’s J-Soc: Cambridge Seconder’s name: Toby Kunin Seconder’s J-Soc: Warwick What’s the idea? 1. The issue of antisemitism in the Labour Party has been incredibly difficult for the Jewish community and for Jewish students in particular, who have faced antisemitism on campus. 2. The Labour Party’s new leadership have made promising steps in dealing with the problem of antisemitism in Labour but there is still a long way to go. 3. The Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) played a key role in the fight against antisemitism, having referred the Labour Party to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) – which found it guilty of committing three unlawful acts. 4. UJS has worked with JLM in the past to provide antisemitism awareness training on campus. How do you want it to happen? 1. UJS should continue to work alongside the Jewish Labour Movement in co-hosting events to share the experiences of Jewish students. 2. If antisemitism awareness training in University Labour Clubs resumes, UJS should facilitate training with JLM. UJS should be in regular contact with JLM to coordinate efforts to fight antisemitism on campus when it arises in Labour Party spaces. Motion Title: CA6 Committing to Fight All Forms of Antisemitism Proposer’s name: Millie Walker Proposer’s J-Soc: Leeds Seconder’s name: Tamar Klajman Seconder’s J-Soc: UCL What’s the idea? 1. Antisemitism is rising at an alarming rate at universities across the world. -
Pardes : Zeitschrift Der Vereinigung Für Jüdische Studien Ev
PaRDeS ZEITSCHRIFT DER VEREINIGUNG FÜR JÜDISCHE STUDIEN E.V. PaRDeS. DIE ZEITSCHRIFT DER VEREINIGUNG FÜR JÜDISCHE STUDIEN E.V., möch- te die fruchtbare und facettenreiche Kultur des Judentums sowie seine Berührungspunkte zur Umwelt in den unterschiedlichen Bereichen dokumentieren. Daneben dient die Zeitschrift als Forum zur Positionierung der Fächer Jüdische Studien und Judaistik innerhalb des wissen- schaftlichen Diskurses sowie zur Diskussion ihrer historischen und gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung. Das Wort Pardes (Obstgarten) und die Kultur der altorientalischen Königsgärten tritt bereits in den biblischen Erzählungen vom Gan Eden, dem Paradies der ersten Menschen, in Erscheinung. In der rabbinischen Tradition schafft Pardes als Stichwort Assoziationen zur tal- mudischen Legende von den vier Gelehrten, die mystische Studien betrieben und RaSCHI zufolge mittels heiliger Gottesnamen vor den himmlischen Thron Gottes zu gelangen versuchten. Ist für diesen mittelalterlichen Ausleger das Wort Pardes Sinnbild für den Höhepunkt des mystischen Erlebnisses, so verstehen die Kabbalisten PaRDeS als Abbreviatur für den vierfa- chen Schriftsinn, der als exegetische Methode den Weg zur Seele der Tora und zur Vereinigung mit Gott beschreibt. Eine andere Bedeutung als in der traditionellen Literatur des Judentums erhielt das Wort mit dem Entstehen des Zionismus. Der Pardes und seine durch eine gleichna- mige Orangen-Export-Gesellschaft nach Europa verschifften Früchte wurden zum Symbol für die landwirtschaftlichen Errungenschaften der jüdischen Kolonien und die wirtschaftlichen Erfolge des Staates Israel. THEMENHEFT ZUM 150. TODESTAG VON HEINRICH HEINE ISSN 1614-6492 ISBN 3-939469-19-X (2006) HEFT 12 ISBN 978-3-939469-19-3 UNIVERSITÄTSVERLAG POTSDAM PaRDeS 12 PaRDeS ZEITSCHRIFT DER VEREINIGUNG FÜR JÜDISCHE STUDIEN E.V. HERAUSGEGEBEN VON NATHANAEL RIEMER IM AUFTRAG DER VEREINIGUNG FÜR JÜDISCHE STUDIEN E.V. -
The World Zionist Organization (WZO), the Election, and the Reform Movement
THE BASICS The World Zionist Congress (WZC), the World Zionist Organization (WZO), the election, and the Reform Movement. The World Zionist Congress (WZC) is a representative body of the world’s Jewish people. Established by Theodor Herzl in 1897, the Zionist Congress (as it was originally known) was the legislative body of the Zionist Organization, a non-governmental entity that promotes Zionism. Today, the two bodies are known respectively as the World Zionist Congress (WZC) and the World Zionist Organization (WZO). The WZC, also known as the Parliament of the Jewish People, comprises 500 delegates and meets in Jerusalem every five years. It enables delegates to exert ideological influence on both Israeli society and the global Jewish agenda, as well as allocate financial and other resources to various organizations – including the Reform Movement – in Israel. The 38th World Zionist Congress is scheduled to meet in Jerusalem in the fall of 2020; the elections to determine the size of the various delegations that will attend are scheduled to be held from January 21 to March 11, 2020. Participating in the WZC elections is the only way North American Jews can weigh in democratically about issues in Israel. Currently, the United States has 145 delegates in the WZC, the largest single delegation outside Israel. Thanks to a robust turnout in the 2015 elections, 56 of the 145 delegates (39 percent) represent the Reform Movement and, as a result, have been able to ensure that more than $4 million a year ($20 million over five years) is being directed to the Israeli Reform Movement. -
Y I R M I P I N K U S / C U R R I C U L U M V I T
- 1 - Y i r m i P i n k u s / C u r r i c u l u m V i t a e First and last name: Yirmi Waldmann Pinkus Born: Israel, 15th of July 1966 Family status: B + 1 Address: 68 Bilu St., Tel Aviv 6425615 Tel: +972-3-6293964 Email address: [email protected] Yirmi Pinkus is an Israeli illustrator, author and associate professor at the Shenkar College of Art, Engineering and Design in Israel. Pinkus is one of the founders of the alternative comics group Actus (founded in 1996), that has won international acclaim and was listed in 2007 by the American ID design magazine as one of the most prominent contemporary design groups. On 2000 he founded the program for illustration studies at the Shenkar College, Israel, and served as the director of the program for 11 years. In 2008 Pinkus's illustrated novel entitled Professor Fabrikant’s Historical Cabaret was published. The book was awarded the Sapir Prize for Debut Literature, and was translated into Italian and published by Cargo Publishing, and into French by Grasset Publishing. In 2010 he was awarded the Israeli Prime Minister's Award for his achievements as an author of fiction and graphic novellas. In 2011, an exhibition of Pinkus' work was shown at the Cartoonmuseum Basel (Basel Caricature Museum). His comics book Mr. Fibber the Storyteller, based on stories by Lea Goldberg, won the 2014 Israel Museum Award for Children's Book Illustration. In 2013, he founded, with Prof. Rutu Modan (Bezalel Academy of Art) Noah Books - an independent, experimental publishing house whose goal is to nurture and foster visual literacy among pre-schoolers. -
Gershom Biography an Intellectual Scholem from Berlin to Jerusalem and Back Gershom Scholem
noam zadoff Gershom Biography An Intellectual Scholem From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back gershom scholem The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry Jehuda Reinharz, General Editor ChaeRan Y. Freeze, Associate Editor Sylvia Fuks Fried, Associate Editor Eugene R. Sheppard, Associate Editor The Tauber Institute Series is dedicated to publishing compelling and innovative approaches to the study of modern European Jewish history, thought, culture, and society. The series features scholarly works related to the Enlightenment, modern Judaism and the struggle for emancipation, the rise of nationalism and the spread of antisemitism, the Holocaust and its aftermath, as well as the contemporary Jewish experience. The series is published under the auspices of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry —established by a gift to Brandeis University from Dr. Laszlo N. Tauber —and is supported, in part, by the Tauber Foundation and the Valya and Robert Shapiro Endowment. For the complete list of books that are available in this series, please see www.upne.com Noam Zadoff Gershom Scholem: From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back *Monika Schwarz-Friesel and Jehuda Reinharz Inside the Antisemitic Mind: The Language of Jew-Hatred in Contemporary Germany Elana Shapira Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna ChaeRan Y. Freeze, Sylvia Fuks Fried, and Eugene R. Sheppard, editors The Individual in History: Essays in Honor of Jehuda Reinharz Immanuel Etkes Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady: The Origins of Chabad Hasidism *Robert Nemes and Daniel Unowsky, editors Sites of European Antisemitism in the Age of Mass Politics, 1880–1918 Sven-Erik Rose Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789–1848 ChaeRan Y. -
Herbst | Winter 2021/22
Der Verlag für jüdische Kultur und Zeitgeschichte Herbst | Winter 2021/22 Liebe Leser, liebe Autoren und Herausgeber, liebe Buchhändler und Partner, wenn ich in Interviews nach Vorbildern gefragt wurde, habe ich stets ausweichend geantwortet, weil ich mich nie auf einen Menschen festlegen, gar mit ihm verglichen werden oder ihn posthum in die Verlegenheit bringen wollte, mit mir verglichen zu werden. Ich breche mit diesem Tabu und verleihe meiner Bewunderung für Friedel Stern (1917–2006) Ausdruck. Sie musste als Teenager unsere gemeinsame Heimatstadt Leipzig unfreiwillig verlassen, um ihr Leben vor der Verfolgung durch die nationalsozialistischen Deutschen zu retten. Sie sollte erst fast 70 Jahre später zurückkehren – als Israels bekannteste Karikaturistin und Illustratorin. Friedel Stern war eine selbstbewusste Jüdin und Israelin. Ihre Leipziger Herkunft konnte sie dabei nie ablegen, so gern sie sicherlich die schmerzlichen Erinne- rungen an die Flucht und den Verlust der Mutter ausgelöscht hätte. Sogar ihre fast 7 000 Arbeiten, die sie dem Israeli Cartoon Museum hinterlassen hat, weisen „Leipzig“ in ihrer Signatur aus. Ob Friedel Stern als Freiwillige bei den britischen Truppen im Zweiten Weltkrieg diente oder anschließend als Karikaturistin die Männerdomäne der Zeitungswelt eroberte – sie hat stets ihre Unab- hängigkeit verteidigt. Sie wollte nicht nur als Künstlerin selbstständig arbeiten, sondern auch als Frau frei und ungebunden leben. Gundlach © Christiane Foto 2 Ihre Bilder, die von den Konflikten und Missverständnissen im Zusammenleben der Kulturen und Religionen im Nahen Osten ebenso erzählen wie von denen zwischen Mann und Frau, fanden eine eigene Sprache für politische, gesellschaftliche und menschliche Situatio- nen, in denen Worte nur hätten verletzen oder versagen können. -
Celebrating 60 Years of Israel's Challenges and Achievements
Celebrating 60 Years A joint project of the of Israel’s Challenges DEPARTMENT FOR ZIONIST ACTIVITIES, WORLD ZIONIST ORGANizaTION and Achievements MiNISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFaiRS STATE OF ISRAEL Produced with the cooperation of The Zionist Archives and the Department for Zionist Activities in Israel , World Zionist Organization and with the generous support of Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael and Keren Hayesod VISITOR GUIDE World Zionist Organization State of Israel Department for Zionist Activities Welcome to the exhibition What we see when we look at things often The explanatory notes in this visitor’s guide depends on the angle from which we view them. provide a context from within which to view the That is certainly the case with Israel – which is photographs and narrative relates both to the why we have utilized the technology we have title of the poster as a whole appearing in bold in presenting this collection of photographs as well as to the captions for each of the pictures spanning the six decades of Jewish statehood. appearing in bold. As you move back and forth among the panels, We hope that as you peruse this material you you will quickly see that the past and present will develop a greater appreciation for all that overlap inseparably and that from the vantage Israel is, and that you will be inspired to deepen point of today, 60 years of struggle and triumph your understanding of the country even further. appear to pass by in the blink of an eye. There is no better way to do that, of course, than We have prepared this visitor›s guide to slow to come and visit.