Zionism and Judaism Quotes

“The human condition takes on heightened intensity when God cares what you eat for lunch but will reward you for having a boiled egg.”
― Jacob Neusner, Zionism and Judaism

“Exile is what marked Israel as special, elect, subject to the rules of the covenant and its stipulations.”
― Jacob Neusner, Zionism and Judaism

“Both the pentateuchal system of Judaism and modern and contemporary Zionism in all forms and all definitions concur that the right place for Israel, the Jewish people, is the land of Israel.”
― Jacob Neusner, Zionism and Judaism

“Zionists maintain that Zionism is the same as Judaism or is part of Judaism. What they mean is that the conception that the Jews form a people, one people, and that they have the right and duty to build a Jewish state in a particular place, which they call "the land of Israel" (a.k.a. "Palestine"), is intrinsic to the religion, Judaism. And, as a matter of fact, Zionists are right.”
― Jacob Neusner, Zionism and Judaism