Cleveland's Jewish community, though modest in size with 80,600 members, demonstrated exceptional solidarity and support for Israel by sending over 1,700 participants to a Washington, D.C., march in response to Hamas' terrorist attack.

In the 1940s, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver were key figures in American Zionism.

Prof. Ofer Shiff discusses the legacy of Abba Hillel Silver, an American-Jewish leader who advocated for a diaspora-based form of Zionism but ultimately lost the argument.