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WZO Elections Controversy

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JL;DR SUMMARY The episode explores the controversy surrounding participation in the World Zionist Organization (WZO) elections within the American Yeshiva world, examining the halachic and historical contexts of this debate. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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ZionismHistorical ContextJewish PrinciplesHaredi CommunityJerusalem DeclarationRabbinic AuthorityWzo ElectionsAusritt ControversyJewish Communal PoliticsVoting Controversy

Places mentioned

Israel
"Basic makeup, of course, the WZO Congress has 500 ex-delegates, something corresponding to Israeli parties in Knesset, and other ones, representatives from Jewish communities outside of Israel, a lot in America."
Jerusalem, Israel
"The unity of the foundations of Zionism are the unity of the Jewish people, its bond to its historical homeland in Eretz Israel, and the centrality of the state of Israel and Jerusalem, its capital, and the life of the nation."
United States
"Basic makeup, of course, the WZO Congress has 500 ex-delegates, something corresponding to Israeli parties in Knesset, and other ones, representatives from Jewish communities outside of Israel, a lot in America."
Canada
"Basic makeup, of course, the WZO Congress has 500 ex-delegates, something corresponding to Israeli parties in Knesset, and other ones, representatives from Jewish communities outside of Israel, a lot in America. The U.S. has, of course, the largest. Canada, England also have nice-sized groups."
United Kingdom
"Basic makeup, of course, the WZO Congress has 500 ex-delegates, something corresponding to Israeli parties in Knesset, and other ones, representatives from Jewish communities outside of Israel, a lot in America. The U.S. has, of course, the largest. Canada, England also have nice-sized groups."
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
"However, as we're going to see, he considered it to be wrong to be positively voluntarily associated with a non-religious, a community controlled by non-religious Jews. Now, we have to roll back in Chazer and review. What was really going on in Germany at the time and where were the Jewish communities holding and what, what was, you know, without knowing the details, we can't really grasp why Rav Hersh was saying one thing and as we're going to see other rebuttal disagreed with him, the why, the why, the why, this is a very, very critical, critical issue. And so therefore it's going to, you know, I'm going to somewhat oversimplify, did not have time to fact check all the factoids here to tell exactly. What dates things switched around because it's, it's, you know, it's a, it's an issue. It's a much more complicated issue than is generally presented. In other words, when did the Jewish communities in the different German cities end up in the hands of reformed Jews? When did that occur? 1820, 1830, 1840. When did it occur? 1850. When exactly did it occur? Obviously, Rav Hersh got to Frankfurt in the mid 18, middle late 1840s. And the Jewish communities, they were not, they were not, they were not, they were not the Jewish community was ours, clearly in the hands of the reform in Frankfurt."
Berlin, Germany
"But some of them, numerous of them were definitely anti-religious. And again, we're just skipping. Cause I don't want, we go through all the technical details who we skip over to practical Zionism, which is, which means, which means post-World War I mandatory Palestine, mandatory Palestine."
Germany
"The basic documentation shows that the Polish and Lithuanian Rabbanim, generally speaking, did not really agree with the reverse. They did not really agree with the reverse."
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