Not Kedai for most people--Moving to the secular state of israel (SSOI)

"Returning to Aliyah today: All those who make Aliyah for the sake of uplifting themselves spiritually, for the sake of fulfilling a Mitzvah, for the sake of being part of Jewish history, and for the sake of living in the land of Kedushah, have no problem with facing the challenges of Aliyah, and certainly have no intention of leaving Eretz Yisrael." The above passage is from the book the Halakhic Positions of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Vol. VII. The editor Aharon Ziegler does not give a source for this statement. And that's a problem because the statement contradicts verifiable statements from Rabbi Soloveitchik on the subject. "It is ridiculous to tell a young man, who does a good job, or has prepared or trained himself to do a good job [here in the U.S., that he must instead go to ארצ ישראל]. "Good job" means to spread Torah, or to lead an exemplary life which serves as an example to others through personal contact - there are many ways to convert and...

In Volume VIII of his A Study of History (published in 1954), British historian Arnold Toynbee wrote that "the Israeli has become an entirely 'new man' because he has divested himself of his Jewish past." Context: Toynbee was making an argument about Zionism and Jewish identity. His view was that: The Israeli represented a complete break from Diaspora Jewish history and tradition By creating a secular, nationalist, territorial state, Israelis had transformed themselves into something fundamentally different from "the Jew" of the preceding 2,000 years He described Israelis as "half American farmer-technician, half Nazi sicarius" ( sicarius meaning assassin) I can affirm that this is true. Can you deal with it?

 

 Trying for two days to wire money via an Israeli bank account: זמנית לא ניתן לספק את השירות. אנא נסה שנית מאוחר יותר. תודה על הסבלנות The service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. Thank you for your patience.

I am far from the frummest person in any respect, and maybe part of the proof for that is that I know of the Swedish pop music group Abba and like their music. However, it seems to me that in a kosher supermarket for Orthodox Jews we should not hear sultry female voices singing, "Looking out for a lover, anyone will do," as I just heard in a Dati Leumi store in Israel. But who cares? As you long as you live in Israel, all sins are forgiven. In fact, there are no sins other than not living in Israel. Do I have the Dati Leumi position correct? So you might hear that song in a Modern Orthodox supermarket in America? Yeah, but they support Israel no matter what it does. Again, all sins are forgiven is you "support Israel", and not supporting it no matter what it does is the only sin. Which Abba is the Dati Leumi world interested in? Not the one in heaven. And so it will be if you move to Israel because the Dati Leumi are attached to the government and together they cond...

A for mer pilots’ union chairman sparked outrage after posting footage of the filthy condition israeli passengers leave planes in after flights to Israel. A United flight attendant named Natalie says she’s seen the same thing repeatedly—and sometimes even worse, saying I can confirm that this kind of chaos only happens if the passengers are exclusively Israeli. The flight was from the United States to Tel Aviv, and he said this is what happens if the Israelis get off. https://x.com/bitcoins1stlady/status/2104901936441168369/video/1 I witnessed this myself on a Lufthansa flight where an Israeli youth soccer team drove the flight attendant crazy for hours with their antics, wrestling, shouting, and pouring garbage and ice on the floor. They even put the flight at risk by throwing off weight balancing as they jumped from starboard to port (right to left) of the plane.  Do you want to live in a country full of people like this? You want your kids to become like this?

  A friend of mine who lives in a different part of town intended to meet up with me to travel to Jerusalem. However, his local bus didn't come for 45 minutes so when the second bus to Jerusalem came to the spot where we were to meet I boarded the bus after phoning him and telling him I'd meet up with him later. I had suggested to him that we take the privately operated haimish bus because the ticket checkers on the corporate-government bus tended to be very harsh. He still thought to take the latter bus because the ride is quicker. The heimish bus doesn't hire people like that and sells tickets anyway. When I got to Jerusalem I got on the light rail, after a wait, but none of the card readers worked. So I got off because I feared that if a ticket checker got on, telling him or her that the machine wasn't working would not suffice as an excuse because, I am sorry to say, that anybody associated with the law, police, or authority in any way in Israel is sort of mean or c...