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📣 Early Bird registration is officially open for the Z3 Conference 2026! 📣

Join us on November 1 in Palo Alto, CA, gathering leading voices from across the political spectrums of Israel and America for a day of debate and conversation.
Don't wait! Last year's conference sold out. Early Bird pricing is available for a limited time only. Can't join us in person? Sign up for the FREE livestream!

Register now at: https://t.co/Ln4cOognN7

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This week’s Weekly Zionist | Sukkot
Maybe the Jewish people don’t need a bigger tent. Maybe we need a better campground: distinct communities, shared paths and responsibility for one another.
By @AmitaiFraiman and @ZackBodner.
Chag Sukkot Sameach from Z3.
#WeeklyZionist #Sukkot

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Jewish continuity cannot simply be inherited. It has to be chosen.

Z3 Adjunct Fellow Shivi Greenfield joins Z3 Institute Director @davidhazony to discuss his new book, A Jewish Tale of Love.

The full conversation is now on YouTube: https://t.co/0RrissNgO3

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One week left for early bird registration.

On Nov. 1, the Z3 Conference returns to Palo Alto around this year’s theme: Are We Still Zionists?

What does Zionism mean now? What binds Jews in Israel and the Diaspora? And what does Jewish agency require of us?

Early bird ends Sept. 30 → https://t.co/Ln4cOognN7

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My latest: On Iran, Israel, and the story of Shimon and Levi. Read it at @JewishJournal: https://t.co/tHi5c0809R
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“Zionism is the purest form of Jewish love.” 💜🔯

Z3 Institute Adjunct Fellow Shivi Greenfield joined @davidhazony to discuss A Jewish Tale of Love and a question at the heart of this year’s Z3 Conference: Are We Still Zionists?

Join us Nov. 1: https://t.co/GW9pf8RKpC

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Yom Kippur calls us to the work of teshuvah: honest reflection, seeking forgiveness and changing how we live.

In Jewish communal life, may we listen carefully, speak with care and take responsibility when we cause harm.

G’mar chatimah tovah.

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Before Kol Nidrei, we permit prayer “with the transgressors.” We usually assume we know who they are. Yom Kippur asks a harder question: what if someone across the room thinks the avaryanim are us?

A brief reflection from The Weekly Zionist: https://t.co/JeVIgUCcKl

By @ZackBodner and @AmitaiFraiman

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Looking for your next Jewish read? 📚

For #ReadAnEbookDay, we’re highlighting books from Z3 Institute thinkers on Zionism, Jewish identity, Israel education, antisemitism and the Jewish future.

What’s on your reading list?

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Why does Moses leave the Israelites a song?

Because survival and instruction are no longer enough. A free people must take ownership of what it inherited, create from it, and give the next generation something it did not have before.

This week in The Weekly Zionist: https://t.co/qGUVlEbCH0

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Last year at Z3, Z3 Senior Fellow @IzaTabaro showed how Soviet anti-Zionist propaganda still echoes in today’s rhetoric.

Her new Jewish Priorities essay asks what happens when Jews are also denied authority to name their own experience.

That leads directly to this year’s question: Are We Still Zionists? Who gets to define what Zionism means?

Izabella will join us Nov. 1.

Read the essay: https://t.co/0Z8hm6WblS
Register for the Z3 Conference 2026: https://t.co/aeRjkdbTLA

[Izabella Tabarovsky @IzaTabaro]

The recent uproar over the PEN America article “A Silent Moratorium,” which documented discrimination against Jewish and Israeli writers in the publishing industry, seems to have died down.

It may be tempting to write it off as a tempest in a teacup, affecting a tiny group of people in a shrinking industry with an inflated sense of self-importance.

But that would be a mistake.

The controversy surrounding the piece shone a spotlight on two trends that have been rapidly taking hold in recent months.

One is to increasingly treat Jewish first-person testimony about antisemitism as false, enraging, or irrelevant.

The other is to increasingly accept that facts are subordinate to preferred ideological narratives and intended political outcomes.

The two trends have consequences far beyond the PEN controversy.

The first represents the next stage in the dehumanization of Jews, relegating them to second-class citizens deprived of the right to speak on their own behalf.

The second—which is deeply intertwined with the first—threatens something all of us depend on: the ability to establish what happened, what’s real, and what’s true.

Together, these trends point to something even more troubling: an abandonment of truth as one of the fundamental principles on which society rests.

Humanity’s moral and spiritual traditions have long treated the pursuit of truth as inseparable from the pursuit of justice and as a virtue in itself. What happens when we stop?

My latest essay, in Jewish Priorities, @z3_project’s
flagship publication.

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What happens when Jews are no longer treated as credible witnesses to their own experience?

In Jewish Priorities, Z3 Senior Fellow @IzaTabaro examines “epistemic antisemitism” and what it takes to resist it.

Read “PEN America and the Crisis of Truth.”

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Register now!!

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Tomorrow: What has kept the Jewish people alive across centuries of exile, upheaval and uncertainty?

Join Shivi Greenfield, Z3 Institute Adjunct Fellow and author of A Jewish Tale of Love, in conversation with @davidhazony, Director of the Z3 Institute.

They’ll explore Greenfield’s argument that Jewish survival has depended not only on belief, power or territory, but on a demanding form of love that binds individual lives to a shared people and a shared destiny.

📅 Thursday, September 17
🕙 10:00 AM PT | 1:00 PM ET | 8:00 PM Israel

There’s still time to join us.
Register here: https://t.co/tYEzjW3QXm

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Are we still Zionists?

Jews have been debating Zionism for generations. Today, the conditions of that debate have changed.

Jewish sovereignty is no longer an aspiration. It is a fact. And statehood did not end the Zionist argument. It changed it.

This year, we’re putting that question at the center of the Z3 Conference 2026.

Read Z3 Founding Director Rabbi @AmitaiFraiman's reflection on the theme, and join us on November 1 in Palo Alto.

Read the blog: https://t.co/BEJNNz8bFO
Buy tickets: https://t.co/Ln4cOognN7

#Z3Conference #Zionism #JewishLife #JewishPeoplehood

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The beginnings of what @AmitaiFraiman had called “a new Borscht Belt” https://t.co/RSV0hg3EFx @JewishJournal @z3_project

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THIS THURSDAY -- join me along with the amazing Shivi Greenfield as we talk about his powerful new book A JEWISH TALE OF LOVE.
What is Jewish love? How should it affect our communities, our policies, and our identity as Jews? Shivi's book argues that love isn't just an abstraction or a lovely idea, but a burden we all carry whether we like it or not.
10am PT / 1pm ET / 8pm Israel -- webinar. Register here:
https://t.co/Qs7ApY3pop
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Tzom Gedaliah remembers a moment when an already fragile Jewish community was pushed closer to collapse from within.

Jewish Peoplehood does not require uniformity. It requires a commitment to remain responsible for the future we share.

צום קל | Tzom kal

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Rosh Hashanah asks us to hold two truths at once: the record matters, and the record is not the whole story.

We stand before God asking not to be permanently reduced to what we have done. But can we leave that same room for the people, communities, and political camps we believe we already understand?

This becomes especially difficult for a sovereign Jewish society, where disagreement cannot be resolved by wishing half the country away, and for a Jewish people whose future must include Jews we did not choose.

This week, @AmitaiFraiman and @ZackBodner explore why the Day of Judgment begins with creation, and what it might take to give a f*ck again.

Read more and subscribe to The Weekly Zionist: https://t.co/qGUVlEbCH0

Shanah Tovah U'Metukah 🍎🍯