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May 9, 2016
read about 2 Haredim celebrating Yom Haatzmaut
I don't know if this is a trend or just a minor occurrence, but here are two items worth reading in advance of Yom Haatzmaut (Thuirsday this week):
1. Rabbi Yitzchak Adlerstein posted on Cross-Currents how Ami Magazine convinced him (obviously unintentionally) to celebrate Yom Haatzmaut
I very much identify with his newly discovered logic, though I did not need Ami Magazine to help me reach those conclusions. Just living here directed me that way.
2. A Haredi journalist (Akiva Weiss) posted to his Facebook page about how he grew up as a child of Satmar, extreme anti-Zionists, and he used to rip flags off of people's cars and would then burn the flags in the Lag bOmer bonfires. To make up for that he has decided to put an Israeli flag on his car this year for Yom Haatzmaut, and he requests forgiveness from the people from whom he stole flags as a child.
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1. Rabbi Yitzchak Adlerstein posted on Cross-Currents how Ami Magazine convinced him (obviously unintentionally) to celebrate Yom Haatzmaut
I very much identify with his newly discovered logic, though I did not need Ami Magazine to help me reach those conclusions. Just living here directed me that way.
2. A Haredi journalist (Akiva Weiss) posted to his Facebook page about how he grew up as a child of Satmar, extreme anti-Zionists, and he used to rip flags off of people's cars and would then burn the flags in the Lag bOmer bonfires. To make up for that he has decided to put an Israeli flag on his car this year for Yom Haatzmaut, and he requests forgiveness from the people from whom he stole flags as a child.
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The episode in Shtisel where Shulem makes a big deal about how the cheder should not observe Yom Ha'atmatzmaus with its ending where he peeks out the window to watch the jets is pretty good.
ReplyDeleteI strongly suggest reading "When Prophecy Fails -Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter+ for a possible better understanding of some the chareidi post holocaust leadership's yom haatzmaut reaction
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joel rich
I actually read an article based on the book but applying it to Lubavitch after the Rebbe, zl, passed on.
ReplyDeleteThe article from R' Adlerstein, while interesting and indeed dated May 9th, is from 2012.
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