Jewish Fundamentalism

Articles

• « En Israë l, la droite a gagné »
  2 septembre 2012, par siawi3

  sa mère lui disait, en montrant les religieux orthodoxes avec leurs papillotes : « Tu vois, ces gens, dans quelques années, ils auront disparu. » On connaît la suite. C’est le contraire qui s’est passé. Les religieux nationalistes ou orthodoxes - n’ont jamais été aussi nombreux, aussi influents dans la vie de la cité.

• Israel: state and religion
  29 November 2010, by siawi2
  http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1290871909
  The Original Sin
  Uri Avnery
  27/11/10
  A FRIEND of mine in Warsaw told me about a Polish journalist who visited Israel for the first time. On his return he reported with great  (...)
• Tensions in Israel over funding of ultra-Orthodox schools
  30 October 2010, by siawi

  During its six decades of existence, Israel has maintained a shaky alliance with its ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority that allowed most religious men to avoid military service, attend separate schools and get paid by the state to study the Bible instead of entering the work force.

  But this system is coming under new scrutiny, pressured by a series of Supreme Court rulings, an ambitious education minister and the hugely unpopular cost of sustaining a fast-growing ultra-Orthodox population that has few skills for the 21^st century and now accounts for one in four Jewish first graders — and growing.

• Is Israel giving in to Jewish fundamentalism?
  4 December 2013, by siawi3

  There’s an urgent need to separate real people from those pretending to be speaking for the people. I fear those it-has-to-be-the-Israel-we-want fundamentalists more than I fear all others.

• Jews and Fundamentalism
  4 December 2013, by siawi3

  The fundamentalist view is that there is a single truth, that the people who share this truth are tied in an unbroken chain to the past, and that this truth is not limited to the private domain but can and should be imposed on the public square. Came the emergence of study in Israeli yeshivas and women’s seminaries or midrashot as an essential part of Orthodox education for American Jews - something that began as a kind of extra insurance against the seductions of American contemporary culture that the young were expected to encounter in college. This further helped transform the modern Orthodox into a more fundamentalist mode. Those who came back home came back ready to transform the Orthodox world into a far more fundamentalist one.

• Israel: Military service for all, including ultra orthodox?
  9 December 2013, by siawi3

  There is a virtually blanket exemption for the Haredim from mandatory national military service.

• Is Israel succumbing to Jewish fundamentalism
  3 December 2013, by siawi3

  Jewish fundamentalists come in two colours: the black-clad haredim or ultra-Orthodox, and the blue-jeaned settlers, also Orthodox but more modern in their lifestyle. Both groups are growing, the haredim meteorically, inside Israel and in Jewish communities abroad. Both are strongly represented in Binyamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition.To what extent do they set policy or powerfully influence it? Do they strive for the same policy goals?

• USA: The Creeping Jewish Fundamentalism in Our Midst
  3 December 2013, by siawi3

  American Jews are actively supporting a demographic trend that threatens the fabric of American Jewish life: the unchecked growth of Jewish fundamentalism. Call them what you will — ultra-Orthodox Jews, “fervently Orthodox†Jews, Haredim, black hats. They will soon become the majority of affiliated Jews in the metropolitan New York area, and the religious majority in Israel. The results will be catastrophic.

• USA: Inside Hasidic Modesty Patrols
  3 December 2013, by siawi3

  most of their energies are directed towards ensuring that women and girls dress and behave modestly. When a female wears revealing clothing or chats with the opposite sex, it could entice the men, and lead to dire consequences. “Women should not wear any fashionable dress or shoes. Even their kerchiefs should be similar to those that their mothers wore.â€

• On the rise of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel
  3 December 2013, by siawi3

  Over the past decade or so, the religious Zionists and the ultra-Orthodox have joined forces to push for an Arab-free greater land of Israel. The racist ideas of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, once considered marginal, have gained new power as they are expressed by important ultra-Orthodox rabbis with wide authority in religious matters. With this authority comes a dangerous new fundamentalism that is gaining increasing political power in Israel.

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