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	Religious Zionism
		Religious Zionism can be traced to the "augurers of Zion" (Mevasrei Zion, precursors of Hibbat Zion), including Rabbis Yehudah Alkalai, Zvi Kalischer, Shmuel Mohilever, and Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin.
		For Religious Zionism, Judaism based on the commandments is a sine qua non for Jewish national life in the homeland.
		In Palestine, Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook gave Religious Zionism his personal and spiritual endorsement, regarding settlement in the Land of Israel as the beginning of Redemption.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Zionism/Religious_Zionism.html (237 words)

	A Historical Look at Religious Zionism
		Zionism as an idea and those who made it a reality, and the state of Israel, its ultimate creation, were and are today, poised before the dilemma of their connection to the Jewish religion, which is the source of Jewish nationalism.
		Religious Jews, of all variations, were also, and still are caught in a dilemma concerning their relationship to a movement which does not see religious belief as its core and foundation, but does contribute significantly to Jewish national existence.
		In religious Zionism the reaction was especially meaningful: On the one hand there was the vision of the Torah centers and great concentrations of observant Jews in Europe; on the other hand the fulfillment of the yearning for Jewish nationhood.
	www.biu.ac.il /Spokesman/Tolerance/michman.htm (3010 words)

	Resources and articles on Zionism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Now that Zionism has existed in its modern conception for a hundred years, the time has come to test its relevancy on two planes: The first as a basic analysis of Jewish existence, and the second, as a solution which can act as a guideline for the present and for building the future.
		The origin of the "Zionism" is the biblical word "Zion", often used as a synonym for Jerusalem and the Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael).
		Zionism is an ideology which expresses the yearning of Jews the world over for their historical homeland - Zion, the Land of Israel.
	www.doingzionism.org.il /resources/expand_subject.asp?id=28 (1362 words)

	Resources and articles on Religious Zionism
		Israel harbors a unique holiness and religious idealism that elevates and ennobles the Divine soul latent in all the nations." In the second part of the series on Israel and the Nations, Zvi Yaron unravels the depths of Rabbi Kook's philosophy.
		It is a fact that from its inception to the present day religious Zionism has not enjoyed the support of the majority of Rashei Yeshivah and Torah authorities of the contemporary generation.
		In discussing the ideological posture of religious Zionism, a balance must be maintained between what are perceived to be its problems and weaknesses and its strengths.
	www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/expand_subject.asp?id=181 (935 words)

	Religious Zionism - Zionism and Israel -Encyclopedia / Dictionary/Lexicon of Zionism/Israel/
		Religious Zionism is an ideology based on the synthesis of a Jewish religious and national outlook and is dedicated to the preservation of Jewish political freedom, the enhancement of Jewish religious life in the land of Israel, and the promotion of Aliyah.
		National Religious Party which claims to be the standard bearer of religious Zionism was initially moderate.
		Kook believed in the legitimacy of secular Zionism, which was, according to him, performing a sacred mission, and he strove for reconciliation of all parts of the Zionist movement.
	www.zionism-israel.com /dic/Religious_Zionism.htm (703 words)

	Religious Zionism: A Growing Impediment To Middle East Peace
		Religious Zionism’s position, long at the margins of Jewish mysticism, held that Zionism, however secular, was God’s way of preparing the land for the Messiah’s arrival.
		Religious Zionism’s role was to sanctify this nationalism, imparting new energy to it by characterizing it as God’s command.
		Religious Zionism’s rabbis spoke of the victory as a “miracle” and said that it meant the messianic process was reaching fruition, even if the Messiah himself were absent.
	www.wrmea.com /archives/december02/0212071.html (2243 words)

	Religious Zionism: Between Openness and Closedness
		Religious Zionism, on the other hand, is aware of the dramatic change that has transpired within Jewish life, and consequently the need for a different, deliberate reaction.
		The fact that Religious Zionism adapted this way of thinking is especially blatant when compared with the hareidim’s clinging to their understanding of the Nation of Israel as merely a religious denomination, shaped and defined only by the Torah.
		Religious Zionism is not an outward-looking revolution; it is a movement turning inward.
	www.netivot-shalom.org.il /judaism/open-clo.php (3381 words)

	Religious Zionism in Crisis
		One of the proposals, for example, was to establish a homeland in Uganda and not necessarily in the promised land of Israel.
		Religious Zionism is now in crisis because their whole enterprise now seems to be in grave danger and all their sacrifices, including on the battle field, appear to have been in vain.
		Religious Zionism is also at a crossroads because some elements within it have begun to gravitate towards secular Zionism while some are even beginning to agree with Sutmar that negated Zionism from the start seeing it as premature.
	www.projectmind.org /exoteric/crisis.html (465 words)

	Religious Zionism Revisits Israel - Zionism and Israel
		Likewise it is true, that the religious Zionist movement was pragmatic, The sleight of hand that is done here is that the religious Zionists who participated in Israeli government in the early days were political moderates, and the backbone of the religious movement was the religious-labor Zionist movement.
		To the opponents of Religious Zionism, this role seemed to constitute a threat; to its sympathisers, a positive move that rescued Israeli society from hedonism.
		According to the teachings of the most influential Religious Zionist theologian, the late Rabbi A.Y. Kook (1865-1935), the restoration of the State of Israel was to be an integral part of the Messianic era, as was the resettlement of the Land of Israel.
	www.zionism-israel.com /ezine/religious_zionism.htm (3079 words)

	World Mizrachi Movement - Ideas and Opinions
		This fact has to be examined by the religious leadership who need to provide an answer as to why there is such a vast gap between the facts on the ground and the (non) success in the election results.
		In order to return religious Zionism to its previous glory, technical elections for a new committee is not enough – a total revamp is required is order to open the gates of the National Religious Party to the masses, as was suggested by Judge Frish.
		The national religious seem to be ignoring what is happening with the broader public, whereas in the past, religious Zionism was greatly involved in public life.
	www.mizrachi.org /ideas/view.asp?id=142 (1409 words)

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		Religious Zionism has viewed the Israeli state not just as a haven or homeland for Jews, but as a religious instrument to reclaim land that could hasten the arrival of religious or messianic redemption.
		Therefore, religious Zionism has viewed settlement as both a religious act and a nationalist act, which averts the establishment of what they consider to be a potentially dangerous Palestinian state.
		Additionally, religious settlers, with the exception of the short-lived confrontation at Kfar Darom, also confined their protest against military evacuation to passive resistance, a response indicative both of their belief that it is religiously impermissible to lift a hand against a fellow Jew and of a political calculation that violence discredits their cause.
	www.washingtoninstitute.org /templateC05.php?CID=2364 (2043 words)

	A Belief-Based Jewish Leader - Religious Leadership Versus Belief Based Leadership
		Religious Zionism's only desire was to instill a little Yiddishkeit, "Jewish flavor," into the secular state that had been fashioned by others.
		Religious Zionism left the responsibility for the historic Zionist revolution squarely on the shoulders of mainstream Zionism.
		Rather, Religious Zionism preferred to remain on the sidelines with faith and confidence that this "beginning of the redemption" would in the end, with G-d's help (and not through our own initiative or responsibility) transform into the complete redemption.
	www.jewishisrael.org /jewish_state/jewish-leader/leader03.htm (820 words)

	Jewish Religious Opposition To Zionism
		These three religious parties are opposed to the Zionist aim of creating a secular Jewish homeland, and as such are considered by some as anti-Zionist.
		While much of the Orthodox religious Jewish community was eventually won over to the extent of giving at least nominal support to the state of Israel, significant pockets of resistance remain.
		They are opposed to Zionism and the very existence of the Zionist state because Zionism seeks to change the essence of Judaism and substitute chauvinism and militarism and loyalty to the Zionist state for the lofty and unchangeable principles of the Jewish faith.
	www.rense.com /general68/releig.htm (1790 words)

	Orthodox Zionism
		Although most leaders of traditionalist Judaism were hostile to political Zionism, a few significant individuals recognized the authentic religious roots of Jewish messianism, and were among the first to discern the profound social and political difficulties that beset European Jewry.
		In addition to its important network of modern religious schools (which became the basis for the Israeli State Religious School System), in which spoken Hebrew and Biblical studies were taught (unlike the traditional yeshivot), the Mizrachi participated fully in Zionist congresses and other political activities, and trained its members for agricultural labour in Palestine.
		Zionism must have religious content, and cannot be limited to a narrow, parochial nationalism.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~elsegal/363_Transp/Orthodoxy/Zionism.html (759 words)

	The True Jewish Position on Zionism
		"Religious" zionism took advantage of the "opportunity" of the Holocaust, to manipulate and distort these principles so as to justify their actions in midwifing the birth of the state of Israel; there are religious Jews who have debased and degraded their faith by worshipping the Golden Calf of our day, the Israeli government.
		The "religious" political parties of the State allow themselves to be used to present an appearance of the approval by the Torah their participation is used to whitewash the misdeeds of the State and to prove that their every action is in accord with the Torah, Heaven forbid.
		The true Jewish position on zionism and the state called Israel is found in the Scriptures in the Talmud and in the oral traditions transmitted to us by our parents and teachers.
	www.jewsagainstzionism.com /rabbinicalcourts/crc/statements/011186.cfm (857 words)

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		The law breakers, the "Hebronites" or "Amona-ites" may consider themselves connected to religious Zionism, and may even be considered by the public at large as such.
		The National Religious Party is dying because it has been moved rightward to satisfy a public it hasn't really had for years, while ignoring the deafening roar of religious Zionists that have already defected to Kadima.
		It is time for the remnants of religious Zionism to stand up and disconnect itself from the Sicarii camp who have stopped stopping for hitchhiking soldiers and refuse to count those in uniform for a minyan.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3210153,00.html (740 words)

	Resources and articles on Zionism Revisited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is a religious Zionists' obligation to protest against violent stances and to teach the meaning of human dignity.
		Religious Jews should use effective educational means, not coercion, to bring other Jews into the Mosaic covenant.
		Zionism is facing extinction today because Zionist leaders evidence little commitment to the ideological imperatives for which they supposedly stand.
	www.doingzionism.org.il /resources/expand_subject.asp?id=192 (2838 words)

	Definitions of Zionism
		Zionism is a political movement that includes many shades of opinion different factions of the Zionist movement and different commentators have offered different definitions of Zionism that suit their purposes and outlook.
		Zionism was self-consciously the Jewish analogue of Italian and German national liberation movements of the nineteenth century.
		Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, brought about the establishment of the State of Israel, and views a Jewish, Zionist, democratic and secure State of Israel to be the expression of the common responsibility of the Jewish people for its continuity and future.
	www.zionismontheweb.org /zionism_definitions.htm (2890 words)

	Religious Zionists of America
		The Religious Zionists of America (RZA), the American branch of World Mizrachi — Hapoel Hamizrachi movement, is an ideological and educational organization that aims to instill in the American Jewish community a commitment to Religious Zionism.
		In a world of shifting commitments to Zionism, the RZA is the sole organization whose singular mission is to be an engine of pro-Israel advocacy, educational programming, and the driving force behind the organized leadership of the Orthodox community in its quest for activities on behalf of the State of Israel.
		Religious Zionists are uniquely positioned to articulate a theological argument for Zionism to the full spectrum of the American Jewish population.
	www.rza.org /whoweare.htm (597 words)

	Zionism
		Religious Zionism isn't a far cry from American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny, especially when Americans claim that their special place on Earth or their great material success comes from God.
		For this reason, while a religious Zionism may continue to be a troublesome religious/political movement within Israel, as its cousin, American religious fundamentalism is in America, religious Zionism is not the chief determinant of Israeli policy.
		Zionism began as a nationalist movement akin to many other nationalist movements, and so long as the right of Israel to exist is not challenged, we can expect Israel to act like most western democratic nations of the world.
	batr.org /twins/id17.html (2511 words)

	World Mizrachi Movement - Ideas and Opinions
		This past summer at the World Zionist Conference the spokesman for religious Zionism in honor of its centennial was Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, president and rosh hayeshiva of YeshivaUniversity.
		Rabbi Kook's personal religious life was in many ways indistinguishable from that of other rabbis in the old yishuv and two and three generations later many adherents of his thought are returning to that way of life.
		When it represents a sharing of the Zionist dream of a return of the Jewish people to their home to live a full national life, defining that life in Torah terms, then modern Orthodoxy is the natural approach to fulfilling this vision.
	www.mizrachi.org /ideas/view.asp?id=122 (1192 words)

	Zionism and the Creation of Israel - Definition and Brief History
		When Zionism had its first beginnings, in the early 19th century, there were about 200,000 Arabs living in all of the land, mostly concentrated in the countryside of the West Bank and Galilee, and mostly lacking in national sentiment.
		The focus of religious Zionism was the dovish Mizrachi movement, whose representatives in the Israeli government, the National Religious Party (NRP) had opposed the war.
		The image of Zionism in the world was transformed from that of a progressive movement of liberation to a movement of fanatics who wanted to create a religious state and disenfranchise a native population.
	www.mideastweb.org /zionism.htm (11082 words)

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