‘Judaism is far from dead; it is alive and thriving’

Eliezer Simcha Weisz
28 August 2025, The Tablet

Marble plaque with a Menorah Byzantine Asia Minor 300 - 700 The temple instruments—the menorah, shofar, lulav, and etrog under the arch—are flanked by palm trees with dates, thought to be symbols of Judaea and Judaism in this period.

Peter Horree, Alamy

Features – Jewish history

Far from being a modern invention, religious Zionism traces back to the aliyot of the students of the Baal Shem Tov and the Vilna Gaon in the eighteenth century, through the Chovevei Tzion movement in the nineteenth century, and later the Mizrachi movement.

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