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OPINION
& COMMENT
A Dangerous Breach: On the Difference Between the Knesset and Zionist Organizations
by Yated Ne'eman Staff
We cannot ignore the official announcement of Shas that it has decided to change its basic party platform by embracing the Zionist covenant and incorporating the essential principles as determined by the Zionist movement. At the same time how painful it is to see the Zionist leaders exult and announce this move as a "historical breakthrough" with the creation of a "chareidi-Zionist" party joining the Zionist movement.
The Ideological Case Against Joining the Zionist Movement
By Rabbi Natan Grossman
The widespread controversy following Shas' decision to join the World Zionist Organization reflects the astonishment at efforts to legitimize cooperation of the chareidi community with the secular nationalist establishment. The underlying worldview of chareidi Jews is that there can be no coming to terms with heresy. The shock with which the recent move of Shas was received points to the trepidation truly G-d-fearing Jews feel toward any undermining of the foundations of our beliefs.
Wrong Address
by M Shotland
Responses to an essay say much to a writer. Sometimes they
reveal flaws in the essayist's original assumptions or
reasoning, provide a different perspective, or are otherwise
enlightening. Other times they reveal something more about
the responders.
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