When people criticize the Chinese government, they do not generally hold Chinese-Americans responsible.When Russia invades a neighboring country, few people assume that every Russian living abroad supports the decision.When the United States goe…

Every year, around the anniversary of the Six-Day War, the same story is repeated.Israel Celebrates the Anniversary of the Six-Day WarTiny Israel stood alone against overwhelming Arab armies. The Jewish state faced possible annihilation. Against…

Incredibly engaging conversation between Rabbi Yaakov_shapiro and Jay Shapiro — no relation. Rabbi Shapiro argues that according to Zionism itself, Judaism does not even exist as Judaism, but is transformed into a political Frankenstein’…

Christian Zionism did not begin as a Jewish movement. In this episode, Rabbi Shapiro traces how Christian Evangelicals helped create the ideological framework that later became Jewish Zionism — importing Christian political theology into Jewis…

When most Orthodox Jews think of Zionism today, they tend to picture a political movement that supports Jewish safety, combats antisemitism, and enables a flourishing community in Eretz Yisroel. What many don’t realize is that Zionism was neve…

The State of Israel claims to be “the Jewish state,” and its Zionist leaders claim to be the leaders of the Jewish people. But these claims are entirely false. In reality, the State of Israel is nothing more than the state of the Israe…