Through a qualitative analysis and broad historical contextualization of personal interviews, The New Zionists shows how American Jewish ';Millennials' who are not religiously orthodox approach Israel and Zionism as galvanizing solutions to the thinning of American Jewish identity, and (re)root themselves through ';Israeliness'an unselfconscious and largely secular expression of national kinship and solidarity, as well as of personal and communal purpose, that American Judaism scarcely provides.