THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14 Friday, April 6, 1919
Rabbi A Forerunner of Zionism 1
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demonstrated the power-
lessness of Jews and their
NEW YORK — Rabbi _ dependence upon foreign
governments.
Yehudah Alkalai (1798-
1878)`is increasingly being
Rabbi Alkalai wrote that
recognized as a major the events of 1840 should
forerunner of the modern serve the Jewish people as
Zionist movement. Born in an incentive to return to Is-
Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, rael. In answer to his critics,
Rabbi Alkalai was a tireless Rabbi Alkalai argued that
worker for the establish- it was not enough to isolate
ment of a Jewish state in ourselves and study the
Eretz Yisrael. He was a pro- Torah in limited circles. We
lific author and lecturer and could not sit back quietly
he traveled widely in order and wait for miracles to
to propagate his ideas.
save us.
His first two books were
In his book, "Shalom
written in Judeo-Spanish
and were aimed at the Yerushalayim" (1840) he
Sephardi masses. The rest made an emotional plea for
, of his works were written in Jews to return to Israel. We
Hebrew. He had many fol- cause God sadness. We
lowers and disciples, includ- cause pain to our people and
ing the grandfather of to Jerusalem, the Holy City,
where strangers now dance.
Theodore Herzl.
His life was characterized We cause anguish to our
by endless idealism tem- forefathers buried in Heb-
pered by constant frustra- ron who are alone without
tion and failure. The Jewish us. He called on Jews to re-
world at the time was not turn to a religious way of
ready for his progressive living and to help initiate
ideas. Rabbi Alkalai pre- the coming of the Messiah.
pared the Jewish ,people to
In his book "Kol
think in terms of a Jewish
Korei," (1846) Rabbi Al-
state and thereby helped lay kalai quotes a rabbinic
the foundation for a Zionist
passage that states that
movement.
the very air of the Holy
In his first book, "Dar- Land makes one wise.
khei Noam" (1839), Rabbi
Caustically, he com-
Alkalai insisted that the
return to Eretz Yisrael
was religiously impor-
tant. In order to establish
a Jewish government, it
was first necessary for
NEW YORK — The Chil-
Jews to follow the words dren of God is an anti-
of the Torah. The ulti- American and anti-Semitic
mate redemption of the religious cult which uses
Jewish people was de- sex as a recruitment device
pendent on our obser- and idolizes Col. Muammar
vance of the command- Qadaffi of Libya as a "Mes-
ments, on charity, and on siah," according to a report
prayer: but all three of issued by the Anti-
these are best fulfilled by Defamation League of Bnai
living in the land of Is- Brith.
rael.
The ADL report charges
The Damascus Affair of cult. leader David Brandt
1840 caused much conster- Berg, known to his followers
nation to Jewish com- as "Moses David," "Father
munities around the world. David," or "Mo," with feed-
The blood libel once again ing his followers "a frenzied
potpourri of messages in-
volving dreams and 'revela-
tions,' biblical misquota-
tions, gossip, 'sex, predic-
tions of earthly doom, and
anti-Israel, pro-Arab prop-
aganda steeped in crude
anti-Semitism." ,
Justin J. Finger, ADL di-
rector of the Civil Rights
Division, said that the Chil-
dren of God (or Family of
Love, as the cult is some-
times known) was founded
in California in 1968 by
Berg.and is an outgrowth of
the "Jesus Freak" move-
ment. According to the
cult's own claims, its "chil-
dren" number about 8,000
young people.
The cult has all the
trappings of hippiedom,
the drug culture, and the
revolutionary dew Left,
as well as "the crass vul-
garity of Berg's poetry
and the near pornog-
raphy of his missives and
writings."
The ADL charges that
Berg `-`has resurrected and
repeated the ti:ne-worn
canards of anti-Semites the
world_ over." He repeatedly
refers to the Jews as
353-1300
"Christ-killers," talks of a
"conspiracy" of Jewish ban-
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ments: If the statement
said that the air of Israel ar
would make people rich, /
they would all flock there '1j
in great numbers; but, 1
since the statement only ' 4
says that the air will '
make us wise, few people
go. Many say that they
cannot make a living
there; but if all Jews
would go, we woul
ceed in making th
give us a living.
He pointed to the contri-
butions of Moses Montefiore
in establishing a cotton fac-_,-,
tory in Jerusalem. Other
philanthropists could also,
help build industry. Rabb
Alkalai stressed the need .
for agricultural endeavors
in the Holy Land, and was
anxious for Jews to be skil-
led in agriculture and var-
ious trades.
He was attacked free* -
quently by rabbis who dis-
couraged people from re-
turning to Eretz Yisrael.
The old opinion was that
only when Messiah should
come would the people be
allowed to establish their;
own country there. Rabbi' s
Alkalai vehemently at-
tacked his critics, claiming
that they themselves were
hindering redemption.
Children of God Cult Is
Exposed as Anti-Semitic
kers, and refers to a
"Jewish-owned, controlled
and influenced news
media."
A special object of Berg's ,71
hate is the United States,
which he has called„
"America' the Whore." Ac-
cording to the ADL report,
he predicts that the U.S.
will "be destroyed . . . by an
alliance of countries led by
the Soviet Union."
It is the Jewish people,
. ve been
however, who li a
a primary target of -the
cult's leader. "Any Chris-
tian who stands with the
Jews . . . is a traitor to his
own faith," the report
quotes Berg as saying.
Berg teaches his followers _.
to idolize Libya's Col. Qad-
dafi and to consider him "a
powerful and welcome Mes-
siah." "The Children of God
now spell Qaddafi's name I
`Godhafi' to honor him," .
and, according to the ADL
report, "they purpor
37 4 .
see him as a Christ-,
r -
Mohammed-like figure.
7
Arab-Israeli
.War Predicted
1
MELBOURNE,
stralia- — A senior re-
searcher at Australian Na-
tional, University has pre-
di9ted a fifth Arab-Israeli 0
war by 1982-83.
Despite an Israel-Egypt •
peace treaty, Steven Rosen ,
believes the Arabs will at
tack Israel and try to inflict .„
heavy casualties. He says
that the 1973 war showed
the Arabs that the major
powers will intervene if the
Arabs are losing and the
Arabs will achieve a politi • 4
cal victory no matter the
military outcome.