tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post114156798356889421..comments2023-10-29T11:50:25.742+02:00Comments on My Obiter Dicta: Religious Zionism: ReduxJeffrey R. Woolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1142513323109819902006-03-16T14:48:00.000+02:002006-03-16T14:48:00.000+02:00Sorry - I've lived here almost 20 years, and I don...Sorry - I've lived here almost 20 years, and I don't see much of a crisis. There are difficult times - but I see no need for any major rethinking of the tenets of religious Zionism.<BR/><BR/>The secular majority is undergoing the same pattern of assimilation and return that has marked all post-Enlightenment attempts to fashion substitutes for covenantal Torah Judaism.<BR/><BR/>The religious Zionists are doing a great job of outreach - even as they themselves are just one generation in the mainstream.<BR/><BR/>I have attended shiva calls for the parents of my 40-something friends - and heard the back-story we all forget: the religious Zionist camp was not always as successful as now, in previous times the socialists shut them out of industry, and RZ education was rather threadbare.<BR/><BR/>My generation is really the first to have broken out of that, gotten an education, forged the Hesder program in the Army, and built a solid base of middle-class communities, and substanital presence in the professions.<BR/><BR/>The notion that "we should have done more" to educate our secular brethren assumes the past was just like the present - it forgets that the religious community was immature and powerlesss just a generation ago - and it also ignores the heavy anti-religious cultural and political milieu of the time.<BR/><BR/>So: a new generation of religious Zionists knows why they are here, and has the sense of entitlement to assume leadership - just as a new generation of secular Jews emerges that is open to exploration of its Jewish roots, and has become used to the presence of cultured, modern Orthodox Jews in the public sphere.<BR/><BR/>All that's necessary is to stay the course, and not let the shriveling secular elite incite a civil rift.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1141833581102465112006-03-08T17:59:00.000+02:002006-03-08T17:59:00.000+02:00Waiting eagerly. Covenant based? Mutual responsibi...Waiting eagerly. Covenant based? Mutual responsibility? Getting rid of the socialist ethos that Rav S. was so against?Hashoukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08980042421107163800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1141796486976862822006-03-08T07:41:00.000+02:002006-03-08T07:41:00.000+02:00See next post on the subject...See next post on the subject...Jeffrey R. Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1141618097658588692006-03-06T06:08:00.000+02:002006-03-06T06:08:00.000+02:00No, what does it do? In any event, how does it add...No, what does it do? In any event, how does it add up?Nachumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11292162031685942549noreply@blogger.com