JEWISH HISTORY 101 THE HEAD The 2 main themes in Jewish history 1. Persecution When we look at the Jewish history all we see is a lot of pain and suffering. Their history is like one tragedy after the other. It all started a long time ago around the time 1800 BCE when Abraham made the covenant with god on behalf of humanity‚ that basically God would be their one and only God and they would worship him alone. And they were promised to be given “The Promised Land” AKA Canaan/Israel; this was
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Today there is a lot of issues with religion; it is impacting to the IDF with on the one hand Zionist who want one Judaism religion‚ on the other hand‚ there are the non-Zionist rabbis who think that Zionism is vulnerable. Ultra-Orthodox’s values go against those of the IDF‚ and they do not want their young adults to join the military. The ultra-orthodox are recognized by their black suits and women wear long skirts with a wig their beliefs goes against
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Jeffery Goldberg‚ an American Jew‚ traveled to Israel in the late 1980s. Like many other Jews‚ Goldberg came to Israel with the belief in zionism. Zionism is extraordinary important to his life‚ because it leads his path to Israel‚ his decision to join the IDF‚ and his mindset towards the Arabs. The way that Goldberg shares his story is through snippets of time; the setting changes periodically from from his early experience in Israel‚ his childhood‚ and times he spend in the prison talking to
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Zionism was and still is a secular movement that desired to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. This movement was executed for pragmatic reasons as a result of antisemitism for the Jews who were effected by the age of enlightenment‚ democracy and self
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that were of absolute importance. He was born on September 8‚ 1865‚ in Griva‚ Latvia and died on September 1‚ 1935 in Jerusalem. In his time‚ he was the first Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi‚ founder of Religious Zionism and a renowned Torah scholar. Rav Kook was responsible for the term “Religious Zionism”‚ a divine scheme that established the state of Israel on strict Halakick grounds. He has envisaged Eretz Israel‚ the land promised to God’s people‚ as the “foundation upon which rests the throne of God
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feud is and was based around competing land claims and the two opposing viewpoints are that the Palestinians lived in the region long before Jews began moving there in large numbers in the late 1800 ’s and that Jews believed they were justified by Zionism. "Chiefly‚ today ’s Palestine question has to do with Jews and Arabs. Over the centuries‚ both
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began to increase. The rise was due to two main political movements in german states. These moevments were Zionism and german unification. Zionism was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl‚ and was later led by Chaim Weizmann. It was a movement for the re-establishment‚ development‚ and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Palestine or Israel. As Zionism emerged more to the public eye‚ conspiracy theories led to the plot that Jews were engaging to take over the
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pioneers actively distance themselves from traditional Judaism. The Zionist ideology was concerned with the self-determination of the Jewish people as a nation in order to protect jews from antisemitism. Zionism was not a religious movement‚ in fact‚ most Jews and especially religious Jews rejected Zionism. It was Rav Abraham Kook that bridged religion and the establishment of a state of Israel emanating from secular
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by Jewish goyim!” (Potok 198). His outburst reflects the anti-Zionist belief of the time that a secular Jewish state would be a sacrilege‚ a violation of the Torah. His outrage would not surprise most anti-Zionists of the time‚ who believed that “Zionism [was] an insidious effort to transform the religion into a kind of statism‚ replacing its focus on God with a focus on building a kind of state”
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All across Canada and in the United States‚ there is an organized campaign to suppress criticism of Israeli policies toward the Palestinians. The campaign is especially strong on university campuses where many voices have been raised in support of human rights for the Palestinians. One such example is the attempt to suppress the Public Interest Research Group‚ founded by Ralph Nader‚ at the University of Ottawa for their support for Palestinian human rights. Similar anti-Palestinian campaigns have
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