Jewish Underground

TJS S5 Interlude – A conversation on violence with Rabbi Yehuda HaKohen

There are some conversations which Am Yisrael is just not having. As a follow up to some of the issues raised in the last few episodes Rav Mike is joined by Rabbi Yehuda HaKohen of the Vision Movement for a conversation on power and violence in the State of Israel.

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TJS S5E13 – Settler Violence? The Jewish Underground of the 1980s part II

Today the media loves to discuss “settler violence,” but it is rarely interested in its historical origins. This episode picks up the story of Yehuda Etzion and Menachem Livni who had set out to trigger redemption by any means necessary. As it turns out, events went in another direction and their actions continue to have…

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TJS S5E12 The Jewish Underground part I

In politics as in physics – for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s signing of the Camp David Accords with Egypt’s Anwar Sadat did not produce a singular response, but it did send shock waves through every aspect of Israeli society. Among the idealists of the settlement movement,…

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