Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund
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Oct 30, 2026
John RosoveGUEST
I am a Reform Zionist.
John RosoveGUEST
I'm a past chair of the Association of Reform Zionists of America, and introduced me to all the institutions of the Jewish people, Sochnut, the World Zionist Organization, Congress, and Jewish National Fund.
John RosoveGUEST
And I The term aspirational Zionism was really coined by Dr. Tal Becker of the Sholem Hartman Institute.
John RosoveGUEST
And what he suggested is that what we need now is to return really to the roots of what Zionism was all about, which was values.
David BassousHOST
Boundless.
David BassousHOST
but we have to prepare our vessels as well we have to dig the reservoirs to get the water otherwise the water just runs off so it rains in Israel, the JNF has to build a lot of reservoirs to tap the water when it's raining, they've got to tap the water otherwise it just runs off so we must prepare ourselves to receive more than our apparent capacity expand our munna and trust in the Creator to believe He is capable and desires to give us from His bounty in this way we can brazenly ask Hashem for more We can believe that we are asking of him, he will surely give us.
David BassousHOST
If we open our mouths wider, he will surely give more.
David BassousHOST
Okay, so that's interesting.
speaker_0HOST
So that could refer to the literal forest of Yerushalayim that is typically assumed to be on the southern side and that Ya'ar Yerushalayim, the Jerusalem forest, is still there to this day.
speaker_0HOST
It was replanted by the JNF but that area is conducive for trees and that south area is where Nebuchadnezzar, at least some believe, may have planned his final assault against the city.
speaker_0HOST
That's the opinion of the Ma'albim.
speaker_0HOST
The Mitzvah of David, though, understands it metaphorically, that it's a reference to the cities around Yerushalayim, just like a forest surrounds a city, so to the suburbs of Yerushalayim will also be destroyed, meaning the city itself of Yerushalayim will burn, and that fire and the destruction will spread outwards to all of the suburbs as well.
Ari AbramowitzHOST
but I remember very clearly exactly what it looked like.
Ari AbramowitzHOST
It was rectangular, that famous blue box of the Jewish National Fund of the JNF, you know, a grandmother in Brooklyn, a tailor in Warsaw, a little kindergartner in Casablanca, each dropping in a few coins.
Ari AbramowitzHOST
I clearly remember having one in my home growing up.
Ari AbramowitzHOST
Everyone did, at least everyone that I knew.
Mario NawfalHOST
Yeah.
Mario NawfalHOST
bear Sheba property to the Jewish National Fund, which he chairs.
Mario NawfalHOST
Addressing the Israelis, he said, quote, your father's fought for the country and you're losing everything because of stupidity.
Mario NawfalHOST
Well said.
ZHOST
Right.
ZHOST
The Jewish National Fund, which was the primary organization responsible for buying land for the Zionist project, had strict clauses in its leases.
ZHOST
If you leased land from the JNF, you were strictly forbidden from subleasing it to Arabs.
ZHOST
And you were forbidden from hiring Arab labor to work it.
ZHOST
So they wanted it to look like Germany or Poland.
ZHOST
Exactly.
ZHOST
To do this, Yosef Feitz, the director of the Jewish National Fund's afforestation department, spearheaded a project to plant millions of trees over the ruins of displaced Arab villages.
ZHOST
But they didn't plant native trees.
ZHOST
Yeah.
ZHOST
The Jewish National Fund systemically evicted the native Palestinian farmers who had sustainably cultivated the region for centuries.
Dr. ZHOST
Because the European settlers wanted the landscape to look like the forests of northern Europe they were accustomed to.
ZHOST
Exactly.
David BassousHOST
No one could get any.
David BassousHOST
No one even thought, imagined, before the JNF came along, that there's going to be land.
David BassousHOST
The only country in the world which is turning back the desert today, the only country in the world which is succeeding to turn back desert is Israel.
David BassousHOST
America is losing land to desert.
Heather RobinsonHOST
And that dream to return and be reunited with the communities of Jews who had stayed and to have a secure and a holy sort of homeland was a central part of Judaism for 5,000 plus years.
Heather RobinsonHOST
And so finally, in the 19th century, communities of Jews in Europe started raising money to through organizations like Jewish National Fund and the Zionist Organization of America, they raised money from ordinary Jews all around the world.
Heather RobinsonHOST
These were not by and large.
Heather RobinsonHOST
I mean, there were some wealthy people who contributed like the Rothschilds.
Heather RobinsonHOST
You know, I've heard from my grandparents and great grandparents' generations about this.
Heather RobinsonHOST
And I even remember when I was little, you know, you would see these little, we called them pushkis.
Heather RobinsonHOST
They're like little charity boxes, organizations like Jewish National Fund and the Zionist Organization of America, everywhere Jews would go.
Heather RobinsonHOST
At a synagogue, at a party, at a community event, they would all continuously be raising money in the 19th
Joseph CohenGUEST
There can be something which is land which has been purchased.
Joseph CohenGUEST
In Gush Etzion, there's a famous little patch of land, which was purchased, well, not a little patch, a big patch of land that was purchased by the JNF.
Joseph CohenGUEST
So completely legal.
Joseph CohenGUEST
This is Jewish purchased land, Jewish owned land.
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