Love, Hate & the Jewish State

The "Love, Hate and the Jewish State" Series:

Do your social justice values impact the way that you relate
to Israel as the Jewish state?

Our last event, held on June 24th in NYC, was "Love, Hate and the Jewish State 3.0: What's Jewish about a Jewish State?" We aimed to explore our social justice and Jewish values -- their conflicts as well as their overlaps.

It was a smashing success with 80 young professionals enthustiastically discussing some of the hardest issues about Jewish state symbols, Israeli citizenship, separation of church and state, and more. Emcee Joel Chasnoff made us laugh and helped us to explore our values about social justice and Israel.

Check out the photos here!

If you'd like to participate or help plan future dialogues, bring this conversation to your community, or give us feedback, please get in touch with Naamah Paley.

We look forward to hearing from you!


Introductory film from the first Love, Hate and the Jewish State dialogue.


This event is brought to you by the New Israel Fund and Makom, co-sponsored by a growing list of organizations:

Thanks to our sponsors: the Berman Jewish Policy Institute, Bnai Jeshurun's Tseirim, Brooklyn Jews, Encounter, the Foundation for Jewish Culture, Hazon, J Street NYC, the J Street Education Fund, the JCC in Manhattan, JDub Records, Jewcy.com, Jewschool.com, Kehillat Hadar, Pursue: Action for a Just World, Rabbis for Human Rights-North America, and Zeek