Christian Zionism

When the Jews were sent into exile after the destruction of the second temple they scattered all over the globe. Some Jews settled in what today is known as the Middle East. These Jews assimilated over time to incorporate their neighbors traditions and customs that became part of the Oriental Jews own customs. A large part of these customs were in the form of dance. Today, dance that once became part of Oriental Jew’s culture is seen in modern Israeli culture. Specifically, one can find many…

The Phenomenon of the Oppressed becoming the Oppressor The dilemma and correlation to indigenous people and ethnic conflict as they struggle to survive and thrive in a world that consistently try to strip them of their dignity and humanity. He retorted, “Am I My Brother’s Keepers?” rings loud and clear in my ears and in the deepest part of my consciousness as I study and reflect on the Palestinian and Israeli conflict. This was the response given by Cain to God when asked, “Where is your…

"The Road to Mecca", is a book written by Muhammad Asad. He is an Austrian Jewish who converted to Islam by the end of the 1920's. The Road to Mecca was not only a description for the author's trip to Mecca, but an intellectual, historical, political and novel book that describes the author's feeling of Islam and the Muslim World. Muhammad Asad was a journalist, traveler, philosopher, historian, diplomat, thinker, scholar and a great believer in the religion he decided to convert to. In this…

spiritually, while Mr. Malter thinks logically. Furthermore, the Reb concerns himself by worrying about how Danny’s influences outside of the ultra-Orthodox affect his belief; thus, he separates Danny from Reuven because of David Malter’s view of Zionism. Also, concerning the silence Reb Saunders sets between his son and himself, the Reb believes that words twist and conceal one’s true intent; therefore, he forces his son to look into himself to find the answers of his questions instead of going…

Israelis & Palestinians: Shadow of Racism The very foundation of the Arab-Israeli conflict is racism. It was racism from of the countries that hosted Jews that drove them to the need for a jewish homeland and it was the racism of the Jews that made them think that it was there right to take what was originally the land of the Palestinians. For this paper I decided to choose two articles that discussed the development and effects of racism between Palestinians and Israelis throughout the…

Upon completing Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir, a book detailing Solzhenitsyn’s account of the terrors of the Soviet Gulag, I picked up my copy of Krauthammer’s article At Last Zion and read through its seven pages. I am uncertain which text is more terrifying. Grandiose fatalistic vaticinations abound in Krauthammer’s piece. American Jewry, we are told, will decline and ultimately disappear. Later on we read that Israel, the renascent Jewish homeland, is “the last hope.” Though we are afforded…

Over the years, scholars of Judaism have often pondered what could be done to lessen or abolish an anti-Semitic environment. The Jewish nation has been persecuted for many thousands of years for not only its beliefs but also its lack of cohesion. In one regard, Judaic culture is fractured and needs to have a true Jewish stronghold to show oppressors that they are once again empowered. In contrast, the oppressors might see the Jewish stronghold as a way to quickly eliminate the culture. The Jews…

Zionist pilgrims to the land of Israel in 1897. This is because anti Semitism was on the rise which was effecting the Jewish people in very negative ways. Jewish people all over were treated as second-class citizens, which is why the emergence of Zionism in 1897 was such a big deal to the Jewish people. Bentwich understood that the Jews needed a radical solution to protect their survival. Bentwich was committed to ending Jewish misery, and preserving Jewish identity.…

Does Travel Foster Great Citizenship? If you were offered a free ten-day trip to one of the holiest places in the world would you accept it? Since the establishment of Taglit-birthright, hundreds of thousands of young Jews have visited Israel on an all-expense-paid tour known as Birthright Israel. Birthright encourages young Jewish adults to expand and join the global Jewish communities. The Taglit-Birthright program does this through activities, religious social events, and engaging…

To begin, the letter to Lord Rothschild by British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour, which became known as the “Balfour Declaration”, announced the creation of a Jewish state to the world. Arthur James Balfour wrote this letter to Britain’s most illustrious Jewish citizen, Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, expressing the British government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, writing “His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the…