Challenging Questions

These are among the challenging questions raised in our seminars regarding the relationship between Israel and American Jewry:

• Will Israel continue to be able to energized American Jewry or will Israel increasingly become perceived as a liability?
• Can Americans be trusted to address fundamental existential issues about Israel’s security?
• Can the American Jewish community be trusted with their own existential issues?
• Do American Jews have the tools anymore to handle complexity?
• Can Americans and Israelis talk to each other as grownups?
• How do we create a relationship (between Israel and America) where you are engaged enough to fight for the Israel each of us want rather than accepting or rejection the reality that is? 

WE NEED EACH OTHER

• We need each other to help each community get through their own individual challenges.
• Israel needs Americans expansiveness and Americans need Israelis' depth.
• Israel needs the optimism of American Jewry.  
• We need to continue to view Israel as the project of the Jewish people and Zionism as the ideology of the Jewish people.