Jews Against Secular Jewish Nationalism

Judaism and Zionism are not the same thing. These שקרנים are trying to get us involved, so they're trying to say that all the Arab states and all the other states are enemies of the Jews. That's a lie! You'll say, "But aren't Arab gentiles enemies of the Jews?" It could be, but they're not different than other gentiles. The fact that they are against the State of Israel is a political expediency that has nothing to do with us. And therefore, we shouldn't allow ourselves to be drawn into this maelstrom of political hatred that the Zionists would like to have. They want us all committed so we should all be in the same boat, chas vesholom. We'll all sink together. Nothing doing! Nothing doing! We're a separate entity! And the truth is, we're more than separate. They're against the Torah! They're atheists! Golda Meir is an atheist. A man gave me a clipping this weak. Golda Meir wrote a memoir. She wrote there that in 1917 she got marri...

The Samaritans always considered themselves as Jews. You know harbei mitzvos, there are many things that the Samaritans kept and sometimes even kept them more punctiliously than ordinary Jews did. And still they were enemies for 100s of years from the beginning of the second beis hamikdash. For four hundred and twenty years down to the Churban and 60 more years. That's 480 years, we were plagued by having imitation Jews, the Samaritans. At the time of the war on Beitar, the Samirtans declared to the Romans that they were not Jews. It didn't pay at that time to be a Jew. And at that time Rebbe Meir declared that the shechita of a Cusi was like the Shechita of a goy and he recommend that their wine be considered yayin nesech, like gentile wine. At first it was a novel idea to some Jews. It wasn't till a later generation that finally it was accepted.  Tape #52 R' Avigdor Miller, The Keg and The Serpent, 51:00 It's time to disown the Dati Leumi and Modern Orthodox. Have...

"At 9:20 am, on 8 April 1970 the Israeli Air Force carried out an air raid on the Egyptian village of Bahr el-Baqar, in the eastern province of Sharqiyya. The raid resulted in the bombing of a primary school killing around 50 children and injuring hundreds. The attack was carried out by Israeli Air Force F4 Phantom II fighter bombers, at 9:20 am on Wednesday April 8. Five bombs and 2 air-to-ground missiles struck the single-floor school, which consisted of 3 classrooms." - Minister of Defense at the time - Moshe Dyan.

I moved recently from a Dati Leumi (National Religious) neighborhood to a Charedi one. The move was necessary. When I came to Israel, I didn't know that the Modern Orthodox (ie. Dati Leumi) here are often far less religious than than the least observant ones in America. I saw women in baggy pants in Teaneck but mini-skirts? Also, while the American Modern Orthodox are very fixated on college and careers, in Israel it's all about the military. College I can pass off as secular wisdom, depending on what one studies, but all this military stuff is hard for me to absorb into my picture of Jewish life. All Israeli-Palestinian politics aside – and I don't see it as good guy verses bad guy – involvement in the military seems to me to harden young people but not in a good way. They look damaged to me. When I suggest this to Dati Leumi parents they as a rule take great umbrage and proclaim how proud they are of their children for their “military service.” They can be proud all day l...

Did Israel do 911? Did it foment civil war in Syria and elsewhere in the Mideast? Does it stage false flag operations in Europe and the USA, making it seem as if Arab terrorists are on the loose when it is really Israeli agents trying to put the world in a state of fear in order to win support? The question no doubt rankles the typical Jew. There they go again blaming us for the world's problems. I think it's a mistake not to consider the evidence. It's pretty strong actually. And we know that Israel did stage false flag operations in North Africa and the Mideast in order to force Sephardic Jews to immigrate to Israel in the 1940s and 50s. And we know that Israel waged a huge diplomatic effort to close off immigration to Germany and America for Russian Jews when the Iron Curtain fell. You are thinking, could Jews do such a thing? The answer is, they are not Jews. We know from various scholars that in the end of days the eruv rav and Amalek will be in charge. Try to ...

We bring out the best and the worst The Gemara says that one reason the Jews were sent into exile is to set a good example of right living to the gentiles and arguably the most decent gentile societies have been ones that looked to the Bible for guidance. America used to do that. Currently, America is in a terrible death spiral caused in large part to its abandonment of biblical morality. There are people such as David Duke who blame the Jews for this. We of course are quick to dismiss him as a rabid anti-Semite who should only be attacked. That's what we always do when anybody criticizes us. But Duke makes points that contain some truth. He notes for example how the media has a long history of mocking religion in general and Xianity in particular. He's quite right about that. One example that comes to my mind is in the movie Walk the Line, which tells the story of a country singer named Johnny Cash. Cash as a young man auditioned for the famed producer Sam Philli...

Here's the difference between Modern Orthodoxy in America and the State of Israel. In America, the MO are insecure. They know the Charedim are frummer. I once talk a walk down Bedford Ave. in Williamsburg. I felt ashamed of myself. Everyone was so modest. They men were carrying sefarim. It was inspiring as I knew they were better than me, me who knows the lyrics to every Beatles song. Most MO, at least the ones with any intellectual honesty, feel this way. Yes, we try to cover it by ranting about the problems in the Charedi world. We take isolated incidents and talk about them forever. But just go over the RIETs at YU. They do all they can to imitate the Charedim who they know set the standard for religious idealism today. Well all they can except when it comes to Zionism and feminism. In Israel, the Modern Orthodox, aka Data Leumi, are arguably less frum than American MO. The teenagers in the DL school near my house wear tight, stretchy skirts that sit five inches about their knee...

You people are such wimps. Real Americans. Soft, living in a soft country. And you project all this onto the Torah. All you really are saying is that in nice polite America Jews wouldn't act this way. I hope they would if they had to. You don't have a draft there. When there was a draft there was plenty of violent protesting. Now, everything is nice and polite. Well goody for you. In Israel the rules are entirely different. The norms are different. Israel is a rough place. Blocking traffic is pretty civil for Israelis.  And the government is the one starting off this battle. They have a secular military and they are telling Charedim they must hand over their children to this intense brain washing machine called the IDF. Do you understand? This isn't about failing to register for the exemption. The exemptions are over. And people here have asked, pleaded, and politely protested. It doesn't work. The Israeli government is like a stone. You have no idea what it's like ...

There are many ways to serve one's country. In sophisticated and healthy societies, people contribute according to their aptitudes. Kindly people become social workers. Those who are good at math become scientists or accountants or math teachers if they also happen to be good at teaching. And soldiers become soldiers. A normal country needs all of these contributions, these ways of serving. In Israel, which claims to having a modern economy and vibrant democracy, there's a common conception that everybody has to be a soldier, even people who are not cut out for it, even people who are damaged by the experience. The claim is that security needs dictate this but this is an opinion not a fact. The fact is Israel has not been in a war against another country in 40 years and arguably a country doesn't need every young person in military uniform unless it is at war. Israel needs defense forces but it does not need to act as though it is in a major war when it is not. There's ...

Edward Louis James Bernays  ( / b ər ˈ n eɪ z / ;  German:   [bɛɐ̯ˈnaɪs] ; November 22, 1891 − March 9, 1995) was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of  public relations  and  propaganda , referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations". [2]  Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by  Life  magazine . [3]  He was the subject of a full length biography by  Larry Tye  called  The Father of Spin  (1999) and later an award-winning 2002 documentary for the  BBC  by  Adam Curtis  called  The Century of the Self . His best-known campaigns include a 1929 effort to promote female smoking by branding cigarettes as feminist " Torches of Freedom " and his work for the  United Fruit Company  connected with the  overthrow of the Guatemalan government  in 1954. He worked for dozens of major American corporations including...

“People can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peace makers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”