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DESCRIPTION:Dror Bondi\, “Heschel on Israel: Between Christianity and Zioni
 sm” (Hybrid) \nDr. Dror Bondi\, 2025-2026 Corcoran Visiting Chair in Christ
 ian-Jewish Relations at Boston College\, will examine Abraham Joshua Hesche
 l’s subtle effort to reclaim the term Israel in the years immediately follo
 wing the establishment of the State of Israel. Assigning this ancient theol
 ogical designation to a modern nation-state rekindled a longstanding debate
  over its meaning\, now reframed among Zionist leaders\, Christian theologi
 ans\, and diaspora Jewish thinkers. Although Heschel would later become kno
 wn in the 1960s as an American Jewish intellectual who integrated religious
  activism\, interfaith engagement\, and spiritual Zionism\, this lecture wi
 ll turn to an earlier and less-studied phase of his thought. Through an ana
 lysis of his treatment of the term Israel as a third alternative situated b
 etween Zionism and Christianity\, the lecture will present Heschel as a dia
 sporic philosopher and an emerging critic of Zionism.\n\nDr. Susannah Hesch
 el\, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth Co
 llege\, will deliver a response.\n \n\nDr. Dror Bondi is Senior Research Fe
 llow and Lecturer at the Schechter Institute in Israel and the 2025-2026 Co
 rcoran Visiting Chair in Christian-Jewish Relations at Boston College. He c
 ompleted his Ph.D. and M.A. in Jewish Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University. He
  is an author\, translator and editor of several of Abraham Joshua Heschel’
 s books in Hebrew. Dr. Bondi’s book Ayeca? about Heschel’s thought earned h
 im the 2006 Shalem Prize. In 2019\, his edition of Heschel’s groundbreaking
  Torah Min HaShamayim (Torah From Heaven) won the Mifal HaPais Prize.\n\nRS
 VP in-person: cjlearning@bc.edu\nRegister to join by Zoom Webinar
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SUMMARY:Dror Bondi\, “Heschel on Israel: Between Christianity and Zionism” 
 (Hybrid) 
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