How Zionism stole Jewish Identity, May 17, 2024

 

How Zionism stole Jewish Identity with Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro 133,951 views Aug 9, 2023 This week Lara and Michael sit down with acclaimed Rabbi, author, and rabbinical scholar, Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro to discuss what it actually means to be Jewish. He dives deep into Jewish history and shows how the Zionist movement belonged to Christians before Theodore Herzl came around. He explains how the founders of Zionism hijacked the religion while holding a lot of the same beliefs as the anti-semites of their day. He defines what it means to practice Judaism and how the future of Jewish identity hinges on defeating Zionism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eye3eOaBGrw Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro: Is Judaism a Nationality? 10,694 views Nov 3, 2019 Why has it become so hard to define a Jew nowadays? Ethnicity, race, religion? Part of the reason is Zionism, which attempted to erase the traditional Jewish identity and replace it with its own nationalistic one. But it failed to come up with a logically consistent new identity for the Jewish people, leaving those who chose to adopt the Zionist narrative of Jewishness confused with an undefined and indeterminable Jewish self-image. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I9O9RWqdgk