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Philip's posts with tag: anti-zionism
| | Judaism Isn't Just Shabbat Candles and Tefilin
Nadia Matar
My shock and disappointment therefore knew no bounds when I read the article by Roi Sharon, that appeared in NRG Maariv, with the following headline: "Meahazim [outpost settlements] Are Out, Repentance Is In"
(NRG, October 9, 2007), in which it was written: A revolution in religious Zionism: bringing back to religion is more important than settling the land. [...] For long years the leaders of
religious Zionism championed the missions of building settlements and the struggle against the evacuation of settlements, with the commandment
| | | of settling Eretz Israel proudly standing at the top of the values for which the youth was educated. But 60 years after the establishment of the State of Israel, it seems that this public has decided to change the movement's agenda, and to point to a new goal.
Last Shabbat hundreds of activists gathered in the settlement of Ofrah, and heard lectures by the head of the Ateret Kohanim yeshivah
Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, the rabbi of Safed Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, and MK Effi Eitam. The three called upon religious young people to assault the Israeli street and bring the secular back to religion. This is a real precedent in the annals of religious Zionism, that until now
refrained from engaging in efforts to effect repentance, at least openly [...] | |
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