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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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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one is father-son‚ between Danny and his father‚ Reb Saunders and between Reuven and his father‚ David Malter. The relationship between Reuven and Danny is the second main relationship in The Chosen. The third main relationship is Hasidism verses Zionism. The relationship between the two fathers and the two sons is a very important theme in this book. Because of their different backgrounds‚ Reb Saunders and David Malters approached raising a child from two totally different perspectives. Despite
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Diversity in Canada Question #1 The chief aim of this paper is to contrast and compare anti-Semitism in Canada – predominantly modern Canada – with different forms of racism. For instance‚ the most popular practice of anti-Semitism in Canada is Zionism and nationalism. Most considerations of anti-Semitism in Canada and of the Jewish community more usually‚ have taken place separately from typical writing on “race” ‚ culture and origin – that is‚ both in Jewish teachings fora and oriented on Jewish
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IMPORTANT LEADERS OF THE MIDDLE EAST Throughout the history of the middle east‚ strong individual leaders have been forging the path for their nations. Three leaders in particular‚ Jamal Abd An-Nasser‚ Menachin Begin‚ and King Faisal I have all had a particularly significant impact on the nations they governed and the middle east as a whole. The vision they had for their land and how it ties into their relations with the west‚ their people‚ and the style of government over which they reigned all
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diaspora. The nascent recreation of the Jewish national homeland has now laid bare this schizophrenic disposition. And therein lies a fundamental tension in mainstream American Zionism—We preach loftily the virtues of a multi-cultural‚ pluralistic society while seemingly preferring for our own people an ethnocentric nation-state. Zionism posits a bifurcated claim. It declares‚ echoing Moses Hess‚ that the Jews are forever alien amongst the gentile peoples‚ incapable of integration‚ or even assimilation‚
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