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 Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, the authors rely on primary sources to draw a map of Jewish religious groups that have become increasingly powerful and influential to the extent of impacting on Israeli politics.
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel introduces to its readers a Jewish population that is not only diverse and in conflict but that is also imported and alien to the land in which it lives.
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel is a testimony to the fragile nature of Israel, a state that is supposed to be home for a people alleged to be of sacred descent and one origin but who are so mundane and mosaic.
www.ii-pt.com /web/reviews/fundamentalism.htm   (637 words)

  
 Jewish Fundamentalism In Israel--the eugenic state.
From the perspective of Jewish fundamentalism the most important occurrence in the third period was the growth of Jewish mysticism, usually referred to by the name of Cabbala.
Jewish fundamentalism is here briefly defined as the belief that Jewish Orthodoxy, which is based upon the Babylonian Talmud, the rest of talmudic literature and halachic literature, is still valid and will eternally remain valid.
Jewish religious law holds that a Jewish child should preferably not be breast fed by a non-Jewish woman because her milk consists of forbidden food and contaminates the Jewish child." Such positions and statements antagonized secular Jews and met great opposition from the great majority of members of the Israeli medical profession.
home.comcast.net /~neoeugenics/Shahak.htm   (19228 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Jewish fundamentalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Fundamentalism is a movement to maintain strict adherence to founding principles.
Karaite Judaism is a Jewish denomination characterized by reliance on the Tanakh as the sole scripture, and rejection of the Oral Law (the Mishnah and the Talmuds) as halakha (Legally Binding, i.
The phrase Islamic fundamentalism is primarily used in the West to describe Islamist groups.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jewish-fundamentalism   (1553 words)

  
 Countrybookshop.co.uk - Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jewish fundamentalism in Israel, as shown in the activities of religious settlers, is of great political importance.
The authors argue that Jewish fundamentalism is essentially hostile to democracy because it opposes equality for all citizens and therefore it poses a considerable threat to democracy in Israel.
Jewish fundamentalism within Jewish society; the rise of the Haredim in Israel; the two main Haredi groups; the national religious party and the religious settlers; the nature of Gush Emunim settlements; the real significance of Baruch Goldstein; the religious background of Rabin's assassination.
www.countrybookshop.co.uk /partner/?partner=afwin&isbn=0745320902   (290 words)

  
 Talk:Jewish fundamentalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A problematic issue in the definition of "Jewish fundamentalism" is that we tend to either approach it from the point of view of extreme (or super-dogmatic) religious beliefs, or from the point of view of extreme political beliefs, and from the outside it looks like these are different phenomena.
However, I believe it is true that most of the people we would agree to call "Jewish fundamentalists" do not distinguish between the religious and the political.
Although many people claim that the "religious" and "political" sides of fundamentalism are the same, I think it's still convenient to present them under separate headings to make it clean, and then discuss the extent to which the 2 strands involve the same people etc.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Jewish_fundamentalism   (648 words)

  
 Talk:Jewish fundamentalism - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Secondly, it is in fact so that the term Jewish Fundamentalism is most commonly applied to hardline religious settlers and their likeminded co-religionists.
He says about Jewish Fundamentalism: "Historically the movement is a zealous spin-off of Zionism that burst upon the Israeli scene in the triumphant days following the 1967 war" (in the preface) and in general he discusses Jewish Fundamentalism in a way similar to what I tried to do in the original article.
Hence, I repeat: Jewish Fundamentalism is most commonly applied to hardline religious settlers and their likeminded co-religionists.
www.infosearchpoint.com /wiki.php?title=_Talk:Jewish_fundamentalism&printable=yes   (2085 words)

  
 U-blog / ! Proche-Orient Media © / Jewish Fundamentalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Almost totally absent from such arguments is any inclination to examine Jewish fundamentalism, or so much as to ask whether it, too, might be a factor in the conflict over Palestine, one of the reasons why it seems so insoluble.
It would be governed by the Halacha, or Jewish religious law, of which the rabbis would be the sole interpreters, and whose observance clerical commissars, installed in every public and private institution, would rigorously enforce, with the help of citizens legally obligated to report any offense to the authorities.
This messianic fundamentalism is represented by the National Religious Party, and its progeny, the settlers of the Gush Emunim, or Bloc of the Faithful, who eventually came to dominate it.
www.u-blog.net /france/article/Fundamentalism.html   (1905 words)

  
 Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel
In the case of the Jewish messianic variety of fundamentalism, the idea is to use modem methods to achieve the power to re-establish the traditional way of life in an effectual manner.
The dangers of Jewish fundamentalism being established in Israel as at least part of the ruling power are great.
For non-Jews in the Middle East, the Arabs and especially the Palestinians, the main danger is in and with the messianic variety of Jewish fundamentalism.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Israel/JewishFundimentalismIsrael.html   (7601 words)

  
 Home / Headlines / Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel :: Book Review :: - Media Monitors Network (MMN)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In a book written by two Jewish authors, Israel Shahak, whose father lost his life in a Nazi death camp, and Norton Mazvinsky a professor of history, entitled Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, the authors explain that Jewish religious extremism is a very real threat to the world.
An apologetic approach to the Jewish past, which is in fact false beautification and falsification of one part of Jewish history, is intended to remove the horrors and persecution that Jews suffered at the hands of their own authorities and rabbis, and increases the dangers of a developing Jewish "Khomeinism"(p.132).
Recognizing that Jewish fundamentalism has in many instances cross contaminated Islam, explains the similarities in these fundamentalisms, and why we cannot approach one for reform without also approaching the other, and the same is increasingly true about Christian fundamentalism as well.
usa.mediamonitors.net /headlines/jewish_fundamentalism_in_israel_book_review   (2860 words)

  
 Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel - Israel Shahak,Norton Mezvinsky
Shahak and Mezvinsky argue that Israeli Jewish fundamentalism is closely associated with a new form of national religious messianism.
Pulling no punches they liken the 'intolerance' and 'hatred' of Jewish fundamentalist thought to Nazism (p65) and contend that both the Israeli public and their politicians have been too indulgent of the religious parties.......Illuminative, insightful and accessible, this is an important book that deserves as wide a readership as possible".
This requires us to approach the Jewish past not as a folk-tale but as history.....some readers...could be shocked, even affronted by the evidence presented.
www.realnews247.com /shahak_mezvinsky_jewish_fundamentalism_in_israel.htm   (650 words)

  
 Fundamentalism & Religious Revival
A similar structure to explain the rise of fundamentalism was suggested by the religious scholar Eric Sharpe.
Barr's study of Christian fundamentalism has served as a model for the study of fundamentalist orthodoxies outside of Christian tradition and is widely acknowledged in contemporary studies.
This population may be circumscribed, as is often the case with Jewish fundamentalist groups who largely limit their evangelism to Jews; or broad-based as with movements that attempt to address all of humanity.
www.brown.edu /Departments/Anthropology/publications/FUNDMNTALISM.htm   (5511 words)

  
 HRP: SPITTING ON THE CROSS
In recent years there has been a dramatic growth of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel which has manifested itself in vigorous opposition to the peace process and has played a key role, as well, in the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the murder of 29 Muslims at prayer by the American-born fundamentalist, Baruch Goldstein.
The authors trace the history and development of Jewish fundamentalism, examining the various strains, and identify the messianic tendency which they believe to be the most dangerous.
This fundamentalism is increasing in influence as a result of Israel’s electoral system, which bestows power to minority parties far beyond their representation in the population.
www.ety.com /HRP/jewishstudies/jewfundamental.htm   (1965 words)

  
 USCJ: Interfaith/Jewish Fundamentalism
In challenging the legitimacy of conversions performed by non-Orthodox rabbis in Israel, the group is implicitly seeking to delegitimize the largest segment of North American Jewry.
In fashioning our response, we have determined that, among other measures, it is necessary to "re-engineer" the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization, which control the flow of funds to religious institutions in the Diaspora.
Perhaps the Union will have done us a favor if their fundamentalism serves to energize all those who support religious pluralism and are ready, and willing, to speak out in its defense.
www.uscj.org /InterfaithJewish_Fun5332.html   (905 words)

  
 Jewish fundamentalism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The term "fundamentalism" has two technical uses: (A) As a modern phenomenon, characterized by a sense of embattled alienationin the midst of the surrounding culture, even where the culture may be nominally influenced by the adherents' religion.
The term "fundamentalism" was originally used in reference to certain Christian groups but today commonly refers to theanti-modernist movements of any religion based on literal interpretation of religious scriptures.
Orthodox Judaism is characterized by a fervent belief in thedivine origin of the Torah (i.e., that the five books of Moses were literally given byGod to Moses).
www.therfcc.org /jewish-fundamentalism-98971.html   (504 words)

  
 The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics, Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Martin Buber, one of the great Jewish voices of this century, during his entire lifetime and until his death in Israel, did not stop denouncing the degeneracy and even the inversion of religious Zionism into political Zionism.
"Jewish religion was uprooted, and this is the essence of the disease whose symptom was the birth of Jewish nationalism around the middle of the 19th century.
This is the new Torah of the land of Israel.
www.codoh.com /zionweb/zionmythgar.html   (2325 words)

  
 Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel
Rabbi Kook the Elder, the revered father of the messianic tendency of Jewish fundamentalism, said, “The difference between a Jewish soul and souls of non-Jews—all of them in all different levels—is greater and deeper than the difference between a human soul and the souls of cattle.”
One placard said: “He is one of those Jewish sinners for which the Talmud says their blood is permitted” (that is, every Jew can and should kill them).
Before the advent of the modern state, Jewish communities were mostly ruled by rabbis who employed arbitrary and cruel methods as bad as those employed by totalitarian regimes.
www.ifamericansknew.org /history/rel-jfund.html   (2296 words)

  
 Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel (Pluto Middle Eastern Studies)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Fundamentalism properly understood refers to a group of Protestant Christians who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible which must be interpreted literally.
Kahane advocated a radical form of Jewish supremacism and racism, basing his chauvinistic views on the arrogant myth of "the chosen".
The authors show how the Jewish response to the Goldstein rampage was less than honest, many outright supporting what Goldstein had done.
www.earth-religions.com /Jewish_Fundamentalism_in_Israel_Pluto_Middle_Eastern_Studies_0745312764.html   (1027 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism (Religion and Society)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Here she defines fundamentalism as "orthodoxy in confrontation with modernity," making it broadly applicable not just to Christianity but to other religions as well.
Whether your readers need a means of rapid entree into research on fundamentalism or simply a general reference, this beautifully laid-out work is the one to have.
In her introduction, editor Brasher treats fundamentalism primarily as "a widespread, populist, socio-economic movement that emerged in twentieth-century Christian Protestantism." But she defines the scope of this encyclopedia broadly, noting that the term fundamentalism can be applied to movements within different religious traditions.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415922445?v=glance   (1036 words)

  
 Jewish Fundamentalism
The notion of "Jewish Fundamentalism" was invented as a propaganda ploy to counter fears of Moslem Fundamentalism, though there are certainly real enough problems with regard to religious fanaticism in Israel.
In fact, in the sense that fundamentalism is the conversion of religion into a modern ideology, it was opposition to Zionism that occassioned the birth of "Jewish fundamentalism," in the Agudath Yisrael movement.
The Moslem law regarding women is much worse than Jewish law, and the Quran has many openly antisemitic remarks - some of which are used in sermons to this day.
www.lgrossman.com /mjnk/jewishfundamentalism.htm   (769 words)

  
 Castle Hill Publishers: Bookstore
The authors trace the history and development of Jewish fundamentalism, examining the various different strains.
The authors argue that Jewish fundamentalism gains more and more control and has at least an indirect influence on roughly half of the Jewish population in Israel.
To understand the genocidal situation in the Middle East and the lack of peace as well as the reaction of Muslim extremists, an understanding of Jewish fundamentalism as provided by this book is essential.
www.vho.org /store/USA/bresult.php?ID=76   (191 words)

  
 Child Growth and Development 04/05 And Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel by Israel Shahak, ISBN 0745312764   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This 11th edition of Annual Editions: Child Growth and Development is a compilation of articles selected from the best of the public press including magazines, newspapers, and journals.
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel by Israel Shahak, ISBN 0745312764
The authors argue that it therefore poses a considerable threat to democracy in Israel; and that to fully understand the situation in the Middle East and the prospects for peace in the region, we must more fully understand Jewish fundamentalism.
www.supercreepsvideo.com /childr.htm   (176 words)

  
 Arthur Hertzberg Quotes
Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government.
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 The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict - Jewish Fundamentalism In Israel
The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict - Jewish Fundamentalism In Israel
About one-half of Israel's Jewish population supports Gush Emunim." "Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky's "Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel"
From their perspective the land is being redeemed by being transferred from the satanic to the divine sphere...To further this process, the use of force is permitted whenever necessary...Halacha permits Jews to rob non-Jews in those locales wherein Jews are stronger than non-Jews." "Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky's "Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel"
www.wrmea.com /jews_for_justice/fundamentalism.html   (201 words)

  
 Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel - Word Power
The authors trace the history and development of Jewish fundamentalism, examining the various different strains, and identify the messianic tendency as the most dangerous.
To fully understand the situation in the Middle East and the prospects for peace, we must more fully understand Jewish fundamentalism.
He is a retired Professor of Organic Chemistry and a renowned human rights activist.
www.word-power.co.uk /catalogue/0745320902   (530 words)

  
 Home / Headlines / Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel :: Book Review :: - Media Monitors Network (MMN)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Under no circumstances should an Arab be trusted, even if he makes an impression of being civilized.
usa.mediamonitors.net /headlines/jewish_fundamentalism_in_israel_book_review_   (2860 words)

  
 Israel - Bibliography
The Jewish Return into History: Reflections in the Age of Auschwitz.
For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel.
New York: St. Martin's Press and Institute of Jewish Affairs, 1988.
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 Book Review
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“One of the basic tenets of the Lurianic Cabbala,” the authors write, “is the absolute superiority of the Jewish soul and body over the non-Jewish soul and body.
The authors write: “The land of Israel has been and still is considered by all religious Jews as being the exclusive property of the Jews.
www.washington-report.org /backissues/0300/0003105.html   (1973 words)

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