Bradley Burstyn, Haaretz: What 1967 did to Judaism


	Bradley Burstyn, Haaretz: What 1967 did to Judaism

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6-16-2007 2:56 PM

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enbar says:

Bradley Burstyn writes in Haaretz last week that 1967, in convincing rabbis that they could be generals and putting them in a position of providing spiritual sustenance to an occupying army, effectively destroyed Orthodox Judaism. A provocative claim.

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