Peter Beinart and David Suissa debate Zionism’s ‘Crisis’
When Peter Beinart\’s new book, \”The Crisis of Zionism,\” was published earlier this year, it was met with a tsunami of responses — from reviews, to op-ed pieces and a fury of blogging.
When Peter Beinart\’s new book, \”The Crisis of Zionism,\” was published earlier this year, it was met with a tsunami of responses — from reviews, to op-ed pieces and a fury of blogging.
Can you “sell” Judaism in a few minutes? This question came up in a piece in The Forward by Leonard Fein, who was commenting on a recent debate in New York City between Daniel Gordis and Peter Beinart. In the debate, as Fein quotes, they were asked this question: “Both of you have written about the tragedy of young American Jews who have no connection to Judaism and the fate of the Jewish state. So let’s say you were stuck in an elevator with one of the people from that demographic, and you had two minutes to sell them about why they should re-engage with Jewishness and Zionism and the Jewish people. What would you say?”