which was more strongly anti-Zionist and objected to cooperation withsecularZionists. In 1938, after Agudat Israel’s silence on the guards, Amram Blau, along with Rabbi Aharon Katzenellenbogen, split the group off from the less-vocal Edah Haredit and claimed the mantle of Neturei Karta (from...
Ultra-Orthodox Judaism refers to several groups within Orthodox Judaism that strictly observe Jewish religious law and separate themselves from Gentile society as well as from Jews who do not follow the religious law as strictly as they do. Learn more ab
The majority of Haredim living in Israel are not Zionists, yet live there because it is the Holy Land andthe state subsidizes their study. Anything else – secular education, army service, and often paid work – is seen as a distraction. A minority of Haredi Jews serve in the armed force...
the Jews]… By this name ‘Christ’ he shall deceive the Jews, who are expecting the Anointed [i.e. the Messiah (in Hebrew), the Christ (in Greek)]; and he shall seduce the Gentiles...”12 St. Paisios of Mount Athos taught that the Antichrist will present himself as the “savior...
In Aharoni, the synagogue secured a dynamic leader with a growing reputation. He has written two books (his second book was a defense of Israel’s controversial Gen. Ariel Sharon) and served as national executive director of Herut Zionists of America and as a right-hand man in New York to...
The week before, a group of fanatical Zionists came to the Monastery of Jacob's Well, claiming it as a Jewish holy place and demanding that all crosses and icons be removed. Of course, the Saint pointed out that the floor upon which they were standing had been built by Emperor Constantine...
The week before, a group of fanatical Zionists came to the Monastery of Jacob's Well, claiming it as a Jewish holy place and demanding that all crosses and icons be removed. Of course, the Saint pointed out that the floor upon which they were standing had been built by Emperor Constantine...
Jews have been defined either as a diaspora, a condition said to be inimical to originality or distinctiveness, or as a nation without art, that is until Zionism prompted a self-conscious effort to create it. Might it in fact be because of Zionism and the establishment of the state of ...