On This Day

4 July

LEADING US JEWISH BODY DENOUNCED NOTION OF JEWISH NATIONALITY
On this day in 1918, the Central Conference of American Rabbis passed a resolution opposing the Balfour Declaration’s premise that the Jews were a people without a country: "The ideal of the Jew is not the establishment of a Jewish state - not the reassertion of Jewish nationality which has long been outgrown. We believe our survival as a people is dependent upon the assertion and the maintenance of our historic religious role and not upon the acceptance of Palestine as a homeland of the Jewish people."

المؤتمر المركزي للحاخامات الأمريكيه يعارض فرضية الشعبً اليهودي

4 يوليو
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 1918 ، أصدر المؤتمر المركزي للحاخامات الأمريكيه قرارًا يعارض فرضية وعد بلفور بأن اليهود كانوا شعبًا بلا دولة: "ان المثل الأعلى لليهود ليس إقامة دولة يهودية - وليس إعادة تأكيد الجنسية اليهودية التي تجاوزت فترة طويلة. نحن نؤمن بأن بقاءنا كشعب يعتمد على تأكيد دورنا الديني التاريخي والحفاظ عليه وليس على قبول فلسطين كوطن للشعب اليهودي ".

In November 2007, the Central Rabbinical Congress of the USA and Canada made a public statement correcting the views of certain Jewish organisations that returning parts of the Holy Land and particularly Jerusalem for the sake of peace is prohibited by the Torah. According to the statement made by the Congress, territorial concessions for the sake of saving lives and preventing human suffering are not only sanctioned by the Torah, but required. Most people will not have heard of the Central Rabbinical Congress. Its website explains that the Congress 'has consistently opposed Zionism and the actions of the Zionists, issuing statements, advertisements and organizing protests'...

Jewish opposition to Zionism is a topic not well-known [but] Orthodox rabbis have, from the end of the nineteenth century up to the present day, rejected the Zionist claims for reasons that are properly theological. The pious rabbis known as haredim have produced a substantial literature that