Challenges in the Jewish World
Special Lecture

Politics makes strange bedfellows, but the melding of Zionism and Marxism is an outright paradox. With that uniquely Jewish knack for uniting contradictions, the kibbutz movement was born. Rabbi Wein tracks the socialist influences on the modern state of Israel and tells the little-known story of how another pair of opposites– Rav Kook and Rav Sonnenfeld – united to surmount them.