A Return to a Zionism for the Future, Shabbat Shuvah
Ordained at Yeshiva University in 1971, Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller served for forty years as the Executive Director of the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA. A founding member of Americans for Peace Now, he currently is a faculty member of the Shalom Hartman Institute, North America and of the Wexner Heritage Foundation.
Rabbi Seidler-Feller challenged us to infuse the political, national state of Israel, and the idea of Zionism, with Jewish values of humanism, humility, and care for the other. As he wrote "our ambitious task is to reclaim and return to the humanistic spirit of the Zionist revolution that has been eclipsed by messianic politics, chauvinistic nationalism and the pursuit of power, and formulate an inclusive and principled Jewish national vision."