With penetrating insights, profound understanding, sensitivity, and courage, Roberta Kwall has tackled what has arguably become the most divisive issue facing American Jews today--Zionism and support for the Jewish State. In Polarized, Kwall not only explores the origins and growth of this schism but proposes creative and unique ways of bridging it. Her book is essential reading for all who grapple with the challenges of Jewish identity today and care passionately about our people's bonds with Israel.

Michael Oren, historian and former Israeli ambassador to the United States

Roberta Kwall has written a powerful call for reinvigorating the mainstream center of Jewish life. At a time of growing dissension among Jews, even as antisemitism is spreading across the political spectrum, American Jewry desperately needs wise voices to help it navigate through this terrifying moment. This book is an essential contribution to that conversation.

Yossi Klein Halevi, Senior Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute, author of New York Times bestseller Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

Kwall offers an incisive and wide-ranging diagnosis of the many challenges facing the American Jewish community, along with thoughtful and practical proposals to move forward. Her work will reward both communal leaders and lay readers.

Rabbi David Wolpe, Scholar in Residence, Maimonides Fund; Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi of Sinai Temple

As American Jews navigate internal divisions and external pressures, Roberta Kwall is the kind of guide we need: humane, knowledgeable, and deeply committed to Jewish community. Anyone who wants to understand the present and feel more hopeful for the future should read Polarized.

Adam Kirsch, Senior Editor, The Atlantic, author of the New York Times bestseller, On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice

Amid the clamor of polarization in American Jewish life, Professor Roberta Rosenthal Kwall offers a timely intervention. She shows how it is possible to discern multiple sides of controversial issues, talk with those with whom one disagrees, contextualize and document claims, preserve productive discourse amid principled disagreement, and press for a middle way. Valuable both as a record of our times and as a sound prescription for how to move forward.

Jonathan D. Sarna, University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History (emeritus) and author of American Judaism: A History

If you care about the Jewish world and the Jewish future, it's important to read what Kwall has to say about the challenges facing our community. Whether or not you agree with her solutions, Polarized is an important contribution to a centuries-old debate about-Jewish debate.

Dan Senor, co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World; host of the podcast Call Me Back