The religious Zionist: Toward the new era

This essay presents the problems inherent in religious Zionist education on the eve of a new era, and proposes avenues toward solutions. That the Tora h is permanent and the world is relative and changing leads to many incongr uities within and among components or religious Zionist identity. The cyber -era will expose the religious Zionist to a great deal of information, some of which may be harmful and confusing-especially to adolescents-because of the weakness of present religious Zionist educational doctrines. Therefore , religious Zionist identity is in danger of "overload," due to incongruiti es among and within systems. This overload may cause some people to abandon religion and others to turn to ultraorthodoxy, impoverishing the religious Zionist community in two ways, and reducing its ability to serve as a brid ge between national factions.