It's shocking really, but they are nearly as fry as your fry relatives in San Francisco. The young chilonim are like Europeans - blue jeans and smart phones. Many are wonderful people. However, they don't talk politics. They don't talk about Zionism. And they never heard the terms Chumash or Tisch. They never heard of Samson Raphael Hirsch. If they have religious feelings, they don't share those feelings - though of course with Judaism one can express himself with action. So in truth it's hard to know. I know Orthodox people who never say a peep about religious feelings either. Many appear to do nothing but do quite a lot. So who really knows. But if I were forced to say, I'd say we are talking about a post-Zionist, post-religious Israel in large swaths of it. This is what the anti-Zionist, anti-Mizrachi gadolim of Europe feared.
R. Mendel Kasher, who I find is the source of almost all the classic Zionist distortions - by Megila
R. Mendel Kasher, who I find is the source of almost all the classic Zionist distortions. He was the one who made up the story of those Gedolim signing a paper was the Medinah is the aschalta degeulah, and he was the one who doctored the story of the meeting of the Moetzes Chachmei HaTorah in 1937 where he left out the poiastion of people like Rav Ahron Kotler. He wrote a book called HaTekufah heGedolah which is absolutely full of misquotes, fabrications and distortions. His deception has already been exposed and well known to those who have researched this topic. R. Zvi Weinman documented extensively the forgeries of R. Kasher - and he even challenged him in public to respond to his findings when R. Kasher was alive - in his excellent work "Mikatowitz ad 5 B'Iyar." Of course, R. Kasher did not produce any response to the evidence against him. More of R. Kasher's falsifications are exposed in the sefer "Das HaTziyonus", especially his now famous fra
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