Responding with alarm, they seek to buttress the idea of Jewish ethnicity qua Jewish peoplehood.
If Hartman came to teach about Peoplehood, Hanan Porat came to teach about Landhood.
Hartman came to Israel to reshape and rethink Jewish peoplehood, emphasizing modernity and its place in religion.
Peoplehood is comforting, empowering, even intoxicating, which probably explains why Birthright works.
Zionism hardly resolved my problems of modern Jewish identity, but it did awaken my pride in peoplehood.