Shalom. This is Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg. This is the 10th and final video on the series of the hundred questions Jew should only answered too, and this one is about Israel.
95. What does Idism mean and when it did the moment begin?
Well, in sometimes, you can say Judaism is always been cyanistic. You read the Torah, it is a cyanist book, it is basically, God promising Abraham that he will be the father of the great people and bring them to Israel. That is the whole point of the Torah in some ways, besides the whole of the commandments, and then the rest of the bible is trying to conquer the holy lands, staying there, the dispersion.
Now why to leave and in the last 2000 years, every time we turn around and pray, and our regular prayers, and our grace after meals, we pray at the end of the Passover to be restored to Israel. Zion, of course, is Mount Zion in Jerusalem. It is also know associated with the State of Israel, and Zionism is a modern term is a last century term that associated with the desire of the Jewish people have its own homeland.
Theodore Hursal in reaction to the dry fis affair of a French Coronal maCaptain who is falsely charge treason concluded the Jewish people it need their own state and he basically have a vision and the going to phrase if you willing is not dream, and true he is effort and those of others in mine state of Israel came to be.
96. What rules that Theodore heard so and find lights with the palm shape in the in the movement? A kind of gave you the answers there, heard so got in find lights we have got together the first Jewish congress in 1897 and they predicted there that within 50 years of the Jewish state off course with exactly 50 years later on the united nations voted the partition with Palestine.
97. What is the bell for decoration on what did it mean to the Jews? A lord Delfore for was a British lord, and he want to paper in the plennies basically stating that the pining of the British Empire, the Jewish people have the right to homeland. And not giving for us for everything also the happen politically reading to the United Nations resolution in 1947 the first choose 2 years after the holocaust was ended.
98. Who the great personality in the state of Israel since they established on the 1948? What are many buried at Mount heard so and all other law. Of course David Bangorian first prime minister go to Mayor, who was the prime minister going to 73 war and the first woman prime minister.
Minor personality includes the Benjamin Detanyaw, former prime minister Edward Barack formal prime minister. All American prime minister shalom still life in a Comma sadly are giant personality in Israel but they are many.
99. What kind of government does Israel here and what is the relationship of the Jews will they ask for? Well it is say, the only democracy of the 21 countries of the Middle East one of the greatest pure democracies in the world. It is not exactly why the American democracy, it is a preliminary system.
So, you do not vote for person accept for prime minister now, you vote for your party and then all of the parties get representation in the 120 seat parliament called the Kaneset base down their vote. And then you need 61 votes obviously they have a majority, and so the prime minister tries to put together a government of 61 for sure votes in his government by making obsessions the various smaller parties and currently Kadima is the major party but that is brand new. The major parties in the history Israel will labor and the code.
And also desire is not religious party that have to give power is also believe 11 Erods who are numbers of the Kaneset. King Benjamin Jubing and member of a government in our country impossible, that showed you a vital democracy Israel is.
Lay is over Jews they Aspra very strong the better if more American Jews, they ask for Jews visit in the Israel and more community Israel one of the saddest statistics I have seen most that 50% American Jews no longer feel special by the Israel we change cannot believe.
Israel is one of the most important aspects of Jewish life and they ask to be very strong ban. And if you want to go to Israel come with us next May, contact me through this and were going current nations having another trip. We have a very successful one last October.
Explain the following, 100 this is the last question. First to have you a resolution 242, it is not say Israel has to return all the land is gotten 1967 has return lands. And so has already given back a lot of land including the whole Sinai and an all Yahu Barack Waferd Arafat. A huge portion of the Judean Samaria which Arafat turned down and started a war being to follow too, but that is you in a resolution 242.
PLO, Palestine Liberations Organization, the terrorist guerilla group that the inflected mass catching in the Israel and this really been the major source until now of preventing a Palestine for having their own state.
West bank, Judean and Samaria it is a part that was govern by Jordan from 1948 and 67. Israel captured it and it is the area really in Israel inside the Jordan River. And that the disputed area, there are Jews who leave there is use always have in their many in the world who believe but Israel should give all of that them back the corporate Palestine state.
Palestine economy:
What is that? Well has the concepts that the Palestinians should be every government themselves, Israel on record this willing to have a Palestine state of the promise the major party empower now how must is can made of Israel destruction. How the negotiate even talk to somebody until I will say willing to recognize you stop violence? Cannot, we recognize past agreements, they have to do those simple three things before it can be a progress.
Peace mode:
Well, there is no very little peace move in the air world but there is a strong peace move in the Israel and left the basically that says we need to continue the work hard alone Judaism believes in peace and with have nothing more and have peace with these neighbors.
Pluralism:
What is that? Well that is the major problem that religious life there is no separation church in state in the Israel, the government pays there religion. The for Judaism, it pays for orthodox Judaism and so not all to that Jews get the sure end them it. And it is a very discriminatory system which is there difficult to Rabbi since the orthodox have so much power their.
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