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A little over four years ago we in Free Givatayim began our struggle against the brand-new Garin Torani literally, a Torah nucleus or core group that had arrived in our city then from the West Bank settlement of Mitzpe Yericho.

Alongside many citizens who quickly recognized this problem, there were also those who were scornful of our struggle and wondered why we were getting so upset about a few religious families coming to live in our city. This perplexity was echoed in a report about the issue that was published in the Haaretz Hebrew edition in July 2017.

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At that time, we explained what has now become clear to more and more people: The so-called Torah nuclei are not just a few religious families that have come to live in the city. This movement constitutes a partisan-political project of the messianic nationalism that calls itself Religious Zionism.

It consists of branches of the settlement project in the territories, underwritten by the state, in communities in Israel proper with a certain character and coloration. It is bringing to them, with funding from state coffers, the outlook of zealous Orthodoxy straight from the settlements i.e., the idea of the superiority of messianic religious Judaism.

The first Torah nuclei arose toward the end of the 1960s and became a real movement in the 1980s, initially in outlying towns among underprivileged populations, in order to help local inhabitants and, along the way, bring them closer to the messianic political path. In the 1990s the nuclei gained momentum with the slogan of settlement in the heart, locating themselves in cities with mixed populations of Jews and Arabs, like Lod, thus making inroads into the sovereign Israeli heartland.

After 2000, and particularly after the disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2005, a new wave of Torah groups entered clearly secular cities, with the aim of establishing outposts in the secular home front and swaying the public there to the side of the settlers and the extreme religious right once again with the help of generous state funding and wide-open doors in the state school system.

In contrast to the settlement enterprise in the territories, the Torah nuclei settlements in the cities of Israel always arrive in a disguise that is suited to the populace and to the goal. In the so-called mixed cities, the disguise is one of preventing negative migration and initiating social projects, with the true aim being showing the Arabs who the landlord is here and pushing them out.

In secular locales, the disguise is bringing hearts closer and striving to achieve recognition and unity with the real objective being inculcation of a Jewish nationalist and messianic identity. In effect, this is all part of a colonialist project: establishing a culture of the superiority of settler Judaism while banishing the existing population and exploiting local resources, with strong backing from the empire in this case, the government.

The local people in the story of the mixed cities are the Arabs, while in the case of the secular cities they are secular Jews, and the aim is expropriating the land and/or Jewish identity through Judaization or religionization depending on the locale. This is always an alien and coercive entity, and it always comes wrapped in fine words about helping others; the aim is always one of taking control and not integrating.

In Givatayim we apparently managed to nip the local Torah nucleus in the bud. Authorization for it to enter the school system has not yet been granted, and it has not succeeded in expanding. Therefore, to the best of our knowledge, it has not managed to obtain funds from the World Zionist Organizations Settlement Division. The divisions criteria for support are based mainly on two parameters: educational activity and numerical growth.

The inhabitants of Ramat Hasharon where a Torah nucleus arrived 10 years earlier from the same West Bank settlement, Mitzpe Yericho have already dealt with a more difficult reality of a sizable group of so-called hilltop youth in their city and of local activity by the Torah group. The Free Ramat Hasharon movement in the municipal council finally managed to expel that group from the city schools and from the council, thanks to the factions success in the local election a success sparked by the reaction of residents to the proliferation of the Torah nucleus.

It is important to note that the first to be harmed by the advent of these nuclei are religious citizens. The messianic and hyper-religious Hardali (national-ultra-Orthodox) newcomers impose sweeping changes vis--vis the character of the existing schools in the religious state system, in the direction of gender separation from an early age and religious extremism in general. We have seen how the Torah nucleus in Lod, which is also strongly represented in local politics, has served as a bridgehead for the entry of the hilltop youth gangs.

Everything written here is in no way intended to ignore the violence of Arab nationalists in Lod, but is rather aimed at drawing attention to the fact that the Torah nuclei are introducing into the sovereign territory of Israel proper a reality that prevails in the West Bank.

True, the activities of the violent militias in mixed cities and religionization activities in secular cities are not one and the same thing, but they are two parts of the same big plan: Until such time as messianic nationalism succeeds in imposing Israeli sovereignty on the occupied territories, it is trying to impose the reality of the territories on sovereign Israel.

The writer is a member of the Givatayim Municipal Council, from the Meretz Free Givatayim opposition faction.

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The hatred with which Israelis have been inundated recently amid the political battles to form the next government has prompted many to seek solace in the most mundane places.

Many took comfort in the musical collaboration of Haredi singer Avraham Fried and devout secularist Aviv Geffen, others in the warm words of presidential hopeful Miriam Peretz when she said love and unity were the need of the hour.

(Avraham Fried and Aviv Geffen performing together in Jerusalem)

But the hatred and belligerence directed at the prospective ministers in the burgeoning government cannot be ignored.

Public attention was drawn to threats made against the baby of Tamar Zandberg of the left-wing Meretz party and accusations of treason leveled at Naftali Bennett and others in his right-wing Yamina party.

The severity of these incidents cannot be diminished. It is very clear that their targets are the members of the nascent coalition that would remove Benjamin Netanyahu from office, and part of efforts to delegitimize it and brand its the enemy.

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Protesters outside the home of Yamina No. 2 Ayelet Shaked hold a banner accusing her and party leader Naftali Bennett of uniting with supporters of terrorism

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Initially the criticism was within the parameters of legitimate free speech. Bennett was accused of being motivated by ego and personal interests, of being ruled by his insatiable appetite for power, weakness of character and desperate need for approval from the secular hegemony.

The next step, however, was to brand him as complicit in anti-Semitism no less, and to accuse him of cooperating with supporters of terrorism.

When that did not yield the desired results, his detractors enlisted religious authorities who decreed that the Yamina leader and his associates were guilty of heresy.

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A religious Zionist Rabbi speaking at a demonstration outside the home of Ayelet Shaked earlier this week

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Bennett's former political partners are disappointed and hurt by his decision. This is understandable and their pain is authentic.

By joining forces with centrist Yair Lapid and the left-wing parties, Bennett adopted a position far removed from the religious Zionist DNA.

Still the deafening silence of the spiritual leaders of that camp - when the lines were crossed from legitimate criticism to incitement is baffling, especially when he is designated to serve as the next prime minister.

The religious Zionist movement has always held the authority of the state in the highest regard. It was supportive of the Chief Rabbinate - even under the control of ultra-Orthodox rabbis who hold a far different approach to Judaism - simply because of its significance as a symbol of the state.

But now, when Israel is on the cusp of a new legitimate government, the rabbis who profess to lead the movement are looking the other way.

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Demonstrators outside the home of Ayelet Shaked questioning the legitimacy of the pending coalition

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The same spiritual leaders have in the past supported and even promoted coalitions with parties that do not share many of their religious values. But now they have abandoned the new government simply because it does not share their right-wing views.

It is time for the rabbis who have led the religious Zionist movement to step outside their comfort zone, where the world is only black or white. There must be some among them who can rise above politics and speak out against the incitement and hate.

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Demonstrators hold a sign accusing Naftali Bennett and the Yamina party of treason as coalition negotiations were being conducted in Ramat Gan this week

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Debate is a staple of Judaism. Observant Jews are taught to pose questions and express doubt and the religious Zionist movement had always grappled with conflicting values.

Bennett and his cohorts joined forces with liberal forces and that is not a crime. In fact, it is the true face of religious Zionism.

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In the first decade of the 1900s, Eastern European immigrants who headed west faced restrictive housing covenants that barred many Jews from relocating in certain areas. In Los Angeles by the 1920s, about 90% of housing stock was governed by restrictive racial housing covenants. But Boyle Heights was one of the few neighborhoods that did not have the covenants.

Caroline Luce, associate director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies at UCLA, says that Jewish immigrants coming from Eastern Europe sought Boyle Heights as a place to live. They wanted an opportunity to buy a home, they wanted the space to create the institutions that were familiar to them, to build out their organizing, and to find a place of safety and security, Luce says.

She adds, I like to describe that it wasnt just exclusion, but also aspirations for a place to call home, for community building, and for a slice of that American dream that also drew Jews to Boyle Heights.

At the time, a very large percentage of that Jewish community spoke Yiddish, a vernacular language that blends Hebrew, German, and Slovick linguistic structures and vocabularies.

In Los Angeles, as early as 1905 [or] 1908, Yiddish-speaking Jews are getting together and thinking about the ways that they can build out that language and culture infrastructure here in LA, Luce says. Theres a meeting in 1908 where they all get together to talk about forming what they called a national radical club that would sort of be home to their radical beliefs and radical pursuit of Yiddish.

They were animated by a belief that the Jewish future could be focused on Yiddish language and culture, as opposed to being centered on synagogues or Eastern Europe. Luce says, In Boyle Heights, they built Yiddish schools, they built a Yiddish language press, they used Yiddish to organize workers and political parties. So it was both a source of cultural autonomy and a source of community cohesion.

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Rabbi Adar, is it dangerous to wear my Jewish star?

In 12 years of teaching Introduction to the Jewish Experience through HaMaqom|The Place in the San Francisco Bay Area, no student ever asked me that question in those words.

Am I being silly? she asked. Do I need to worry about this on the streets of Oakland and Berkeley?

Yes, I said, this is real. We are living through a time of increasing antisemitism. As far as the jewelry is concerned, I said, it is like any other item of personal safety: Trust your instincts. If you dont feel safe, leave it off or put it out of sight.

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Then I asked another question: This happens to the Jewish People from time to time. Are you sure you want to pursue conversion? I assured herthat I would not think badly of her if she chose the safer path. Confronting fears like those is how we sort out who we want to be, what we want for our children, what we want for our descendants. There is no single right answer, only the answer deep in each individual heart.

The young woman said, No, rabbi, I want to be a Jew! I recognized the passion in her voice, a passion that I still feel after 25 years as a naturalized Jew my word for a Jew by choice. We love the Jewish people and we are not going anywhere.

Conversion to Judaism is more complex than a change of creed. Judaism is not only a religion; it has elements of culture, ethnicity and peoplehood as well. To become Jewish is to become heir to a history and a way of being in the world. It is different from conversion to Christianity in that it means becoming a target for antisemitism. In the earliest description of a rabbinical court, orbeit din, for conversion, the Sages warned proselytes of the dangers inherent in becoming a Jew:

The Sages taught in a baraita: With regard to a potential convert who comes to a court in order to convert, at the present time, when the Jews are in exile, the judges of the court say to him: What did you see that motivated you to come to convert? Dont you know that the Jewish people at the present time are anguished, suppressed, despised and harassed, and hardships are frequently visited upon them? (BT Yevamot 47a)

Every convert to Judaism makes a journey across the religious, cultural and emotional frontiers of Judaism. One of the milestones on that journey is the moment when antisemitism ceases to be theoretical, when it is felt in the kishkes, in the gut.

I have never regretted becoming a Jew. I give thanks every morning that God has made me a Jew, and that the Jewish people were willing to have me. I feel sure, listening to my student, that she will say the same thing after 25 years, no matter what history brings, so I give her advice:

Go sit with the Jews, when you feel shaky. You will see, when there are frightening things on the news, synagogue services fill up, gatherings fill up, we all show up somewhere to be with the Jews. As a people, we draw strength from one another. When bad things happen, theres nowhere I would rather be than with my Jewish family.

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JTA When Eric Lander was sworn in Wednesday as the White Houses first-ever Cabinet-level science adviser, the geneticist also made Jewish history by taking his oath of office on a 500-year-old copy of a Jewish text filled with ethical precepts.

Lander chose a 1492 edition of Pirkei Avot from the Library of Congress holdings after searching for a swearing-in volume that reflected his Jewish and professional values, he told Vice President Kamala Harris at the ceremony.

It means a lot to me about why were all here doing this work, he said.

Lander, who has taken leave from positions at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told Religion News Service that he had convened a family meeting to brainstorm books. The family homed in on the Jewish concept of tikkun olam, or repairing the world, that has come to represent social justice for many American Jews.

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That thought led Lander to the Mishnah, the text compiling early rabbinic discussions of how to apply Jewish law in everyday life. And from there he landed on one section, Pirkei Avot, that contains a precept that he said reflects his personal and professional beliefs:Its not required that you complete the work, but neither may you refrain from it.

The particular volume of Pirkei Avot that Lander identified was published in Naples in 1492, a time when Jews were finding refuge there after being kicked out of Spain during the Inquisition. He said during his ceremony that a researcher only discovered that the text was that old about 10 years ago.

The world has experimented with intolerance, with the view that everybody has to think like I think, worship like I worship, Lander told Religion News Service. (But) the world experimented in 1492 with tolerance with the idea that we would have a diversity of people and perspectives. I think the lessons of the 1492 era are lessons for today: coming together and making our diversity an incredible asset for this country going forward.

Lander is not the first official to be sworn in using a unique Jewish text this year. Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff took his oath of office in January on a Bible owned by the longtime rabbi of his familys Atlanta synagogue who decades ago forged an alliance between Black and Jewish Georgians.

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An elderly French heiress has given up her nearly decade-long battle with a US university to win back a priceless painting stolen by the Nazis in their occupation of Paris during World War II, AFP reported.

Lone-Nolle Meyer, the 81-year-old heiress to a Jewish family from France, had been fighting for years with the University of Oklahoma to regain ownership of La Bergere rentrant des moutons (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep),an 1886 impressionist painting by Camille Pissarro.

Meyer had first found the painting in Oklahoma back in 2012 and tried to claim it, but the statute of limitations had expired. According to AFP, Meyer was declared the painting's rightful owner in 2016 and a deal was struck that would rotate the ownership of the painting between the US and France.

Meyer had fought to keep it from leaving France in July, but lost a court case, with the ruling stating she violated a settlement she herself negotiated. However, Meyer, who is one of the richest women in France, claims that she was forced into signing the 2016 deal in the first place.

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According to the 2009 Holocaust Era Assets Conference, approximately 100,000 artworks out of 650,000 seized by the Vichy regime are yet to be returned to their original owners or their heirs.

Eytan Halon and Marcy Oster/JTA contributed to this report.

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Police released additional photos of men sought for questioning in connection with the alleged gang assault hate crime perpetrated against a 29-year-old Jewish man in Manhattan.

Faisal Elezzi, 25, a resident of Mariners Harbor, previously was arrested and charged in connection with the incident on May 20 at about 6:45 p.m., according to police.

The alleged assault came as pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters clashed in Times Square.

On that Thursday evening, police responded to a 911 call of an assault in progress in the vicinity of 1604 Broadway near West 49th Street, according to police.

The preliminary investigation determined that a 29-year-old man identified in reports as Joseph Borgen was approached by a group of about five men who knocked him to the ground and assaulted him while making anti-Semitic statements, police said.

The individuals punched, kicked, pepper sprayed and hit the victim with crutches during the attack, according to police.

EMS transported the victim to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.

Police checked surveillance images and canvassed the area, leading to the arrest of Waseem Awawdeh, 23, in the vicinity of West 47th Street and Broadway. Police charged Awawdeh with assault as a hate crime, gang assault, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.

Elezzi was charged by police with assault as a hate crime, menacing as a hate crime and aggravated harassment as a hate crime.

Photos of additional individuals sought for questioning supplied to the media by police were captured in the vicinity of the assault.

Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the NYPDs Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-8477 (TIPS) or for Spanish, 1-888-577-4782 (PISTA). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577. All calls are strictly confidential.

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John Oliver sparked a fierce debate after he published his pointed criticism of Israel on his program Last Week Tonight. Local media personalities like Tom Aharon produced videos that rejected most of the comics claims.

So did Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein, who operate the Nice Jewish Boys channel on YouTube, who about two weeks ago posted a video of their own, in which they countered Olivers claims one by one in English.

The video got close to 60,000 views a major success for a channel with just 1,45 subscribers but last Friday Meningher and Weinstein were informed by YouTube that the clip was being blocked for violating the companys community standards.

The reason it said was they had engaged in hate speech.

Of course, thats a complete lie, said Meningher.

In response, the two filed an appeal with YouTube through the process available on the website. We asked that they at least tell us which parts were unacceptable which sentence or which words, he told Haaretz. About two minutes later Im not joking we got a reply.

The response from YouTube was negative. We have reviewed your content carefully, and have confirmed that it violates our hate speech policies, YouTube wrote. We know that is probably disappointing news, but its our job to ensure YouTube is a safe place for all.

At Haaretzs request, Meningher tried to verify exactly what time the two filed their appeal to YouTube and if it had indeed taken exactly two minutes for the response to come back. Because YouTube doesnt notify the sender it has received a message, its impossible to verify the turnaround time.

Nevertheless, from the information provided by Meningher, YouTube does appear to have needed no more than a few minutes to undertake its "close examination," examining the pros and cons, concluding it had made the right decision and sending a message to the channel owners.

It should be noted that the runtime for the video in question is 16:15 minutes. In other words, YouTubes review took less time than needed to actually see the clip from start to finish.

After Haaretz approached YouTube on Sunday, the video returned to the site and the company admitted it had made a mistake removing it.

With hundreds of hours of videos being uploaded to YouTube every minute, mistaken decisions are sometimes made, the company told Haaretz. We have fixed that and the video is available for viewing again

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PITTSBURGH The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh is holding a rally to draw attention to the alarming increase in antisemitic attacks.

The director of community security for the Jewish federation of greater Pittsburgh tells us the rise in incidentsishappening not just worldwide but also in our area.

Leaders in the city,includingthoseinthefaith community,politicians and neighbors,are coming together to condemn recent attacks.

The Jewish federation says the statistics are jaw-dropping.

In the lasttwoweeks -- there has been a 400%increase in anti-semitic attacks worldwide. The Jewish federation says as a community that lived through such tragedy,its important to take a stand against hate.

Given the history here in PGH with antisemitism and the attack on the tree of life building... we here in PGH are very in tune with antisemitism and pay a close eye to it whether its locally or regionally, explained Shawn Brokos with the Jewish Federation.

The Jewish federation says theyve actually had to increase security for their own safety at this rally,given the tension around the world.

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BRUSSELS Belgium will return a painting to the family of a German Jewish couple from whom it was stolen after they fled Germany during World War II, the government research department said Wednesday.

Blumenstilleben, or Still life with Flowers, was painted in 1913 by Lovis Corinth and has been kept in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels, alongside around 30 other works thought to have been stolen during World War II.

After decades of analysis and research, experts have concluded that the painting was looted from a warehouse by officials of the German occupation, from goods owned by German Jewish refugees.

Gustav and Emma Mayer were forced to part with some of their belongings as they made their way to England, and a crate containing the painting was stolen from storage at the beginning of the war.

In a letter sent on May 26 to the German lawyers of the couples grandchildren, Belgian secretary of state Thomas Dermine officially confirmed the Belgian states agreement to hand back the piece.

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The Mayer family was already compensated for the loss of its property by German authorities in the 1960s, and so the relatives will be asked to pay 4,100 euros, the estimated cost of the painting.

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