Required Reading
Yehudah Mirsky, “A Tale of Two Judaisms,” Daily Beast, June 1, 2012
Yehudah Mirsky, “History’s Most Powerful Rabbi,” First Things, December 2013
Recommended Reading
“The State of Israel,” The Jewish Political Tradition: Volume I: Authority, Eds. Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam J. Zohar, Yair Lorberbaum, Yale University Press, 2000, pp. 479-500
The Origins of Israel, 1882–1948: A Documentary History, Eds. Eran Kaplan and Derek J. Penslar, University of Wisconsin Press, 2011, pp. 368-372
Eliezer Don-Yehiya and Charles S. Liebman, “The Symbol System of Zionist-Socialism: An Aspect of Israeli Civil Religion,” Modern Judaism, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Sep., 1981), pp. 121-148
Yehudah Mirsky, “God on Earth: Rav Kook, ’Erez Yisra’el, and the Re-Enchantment of Political Zionism,” AJS Perspectives, Spring 2014: The Land Issue, pp. 56-57
Yehudah Mirsky, “The Religious Fate of Secular Liberation,” The American Interest, Volume 11, Number 2 (Oct., 2015)
Charles Taylor, “Western Secularity,” Chapter 1 in Rethinking Secularism, Eds. Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jonathan VanAntwerpen, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp.31-45