Study Session #2 was with Stuart Schoffman, a regular writer in the Jerusalem Post, on Jewish Thought. He suggested that "Judaism is an argument about what Judaism is." One way to argue is the dialectical approach; when two texts conflict, a third appears to resolve the issue. He sketched the life of Theodore Herzl, at once a visionary, madman, reporter, playwrite, and secular Jew who once approached the Pope with the suggestion that in return for Papal support of a State of Israel, Jews would submit to a mass conversion to Christianity. He converted his son to Catholicism, and was furious when the Chief Rabbi of Vienna forbade Christmas trees in Jewish homes. Then, shocked by the rising tide of Anti-Semitism that took fire around the Dreyfus affair, he swung again to a Zionism that gave birth to the State of Israel.