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Whose Country Is This, Anyway?

Whose Country Is This, Anyway?. FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM. Jews in Israel “four broad schools of thought”. 1988 Election. Video credit: http://news.nana10.co.il/Section/?SectionID=10594. Anecdotes Examples of differences and actions taken….

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Whose Country Is This, Anyway?

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  1. Whose Country Is This, Anyway? FROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM

  2. Jews in Israel“four broad schools of thought”

  3. 1988 Election Video credit: http://news.nana10.co.il/Section/?SectionID=10594

  4. AnecdotesExamples of differences and actions taken… • “secular Israeli fathers taking their sons down to Mea Shearim to show them the Haredim before they supposedly disappeared” • The Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, "the only Jewish gay bar and the only Jewish surfing shop" • Violence: • A “non-religious, pro-Zionist Israeli newspaper stand, which was bombed after Haredim residents in the Tel Aviv area decided they wanted to purify their neighborhood” • The targeting of “students at Hebron’s Islamic College, in revenge for the killing of a yeshiva student in the same town”

  5. The Jewish Glue • According to Ze’ev Chafets, the glue that holds together Israel “is not democracy. It’s not Zionism. It’s not any ideology or any system. It is that tribal Jewish sense of solidarity… Israel is how Jews– when there are no Gentiles around watching over them”

  6. Balance • “without Orthodox Judaism keeping the Jewish people and its traditions alive [over centuries], Judaism would never have survived” but without the secular Israelis it might not survive into the future. • In a part of the world where people look for differences, not similarities in others, it seems that even those of the same faith cannot completely agree on what their God is telling them to do.

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