In this article the author argues that for 150 years Jewish education has negotiated the tensions between modernity and Judaism by means of liberal religion, ultra Orthodoxy, and secular Zionism. All three are in crisis today due to the rise of postmodernism. Jewish educational thought therefore needs to create new syntheses between Jewish and postmodern life. To this end the concepts of "Aliyah," modernity, and exile should be reevaluated and Jewish education should embrace the goal of working with God toward redemption. (Contains 1 footnote.)