TABLE OF CONTENTS:

PROLOGUE: I Am a Zionist a 21st century Manifesto

PART I: HOW TO BE A PROUD ZIONIST IN TODAY'S WORLD

1. THE PROBLEM: Is North American Zionism Dying?

2. ZIONISM: Not Just Jewish Nationalism but Essential to Judaism

3. ZIONIST LABORATORIES FOR JEWISH LIVING: Camps and Israel Experiences

4. IF I FORGET THEE O JERUSALEM We Need More Jerusalem in our Lives

PART II: HISTORY

5. ORIGINS: Why Israel?: The Jewish People's Love Affair with their Homeland

6. EXILE: Life in Galut: The Curse -- and Blessings -- of Exile

7. AWAKENING: Mugged by Modernity -- the Crisis of Emancipation and the Rise of Zionism

8. CONFLICT: War and Peace in Modern Israel

9. NORMALCY: Life in Modern Israel: The Blessings -- and Curse -- of Power

PART III: CRISIS ZIONISM: Mugged by Reality -- The University of Life

10. NATIONALISM 101: Why Zionism is Not Racism

11. POLITICS 101: How the Arabs Convinced the World that Zionism is Racism

12. DEMOCRACY 101: How Israel Remains the Only Democracy in the Middle East

13. PATRIOTISM 101: How to Criticize and Not de-Legitimize

14. J'ACCUSE! Israel is Not to Blame for the World Trade Center Catastrophe but Many Others Are...

PART IV. IDENTITY ZIONISM

15. MULTICULTURALISM 101: Why I Need to be a Zionist

16. POST-MODERNISM 101: Zionist Dreams as North American Dreams

APPENDIX: ADVOCACY 101: How to Talk about Israel on Campus and Elsewhere without Apologizing, Cringing, Crying or Yelling....

A CONCLUDING HOPE: ZIONISTS UNITE AND TAKE BACK THE NIGHT

Timeline

Glossary of Terms

Suggested Readings and Web Sites

List of Maps

Acknowledgments

Index