{"id":44680,"date":"2012-07-01T17:12:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T01:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44680"},"modified":"2012-07-01T17:16:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T01:16:41","slug":"you-cannot-be-a-lubavitcher-and-be-a-zionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44680","title":{"rendered":"You cannot be a Lubavitcher and be a Zionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his second lecture on <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shlomo_Yosef_Zevin\">R. Shlomo Yosef Zevin<\/a> for <A HREF=\"http:\/\/torahinmotion.org\">Torah in Motion<\/a>, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marc_B._Shapiro\">historian Marc B. Shapiro<\/a> says: You cannot be a Lubavitcher and be a Zionist. Lubavitch was always opposed to Zionism. Practically, you can support the state.<\/p>\n<p>When you read the correspondence between R. Zevin and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Menachem_Mendel_Schneerson\">R. Menachem Schneerson<\/a>, it reads like correspondence between equals. R. Schneerson never pulls rank.<\/p>\n<p>There was a whole era before WWII of Hasidim who were beardless. Even though they went to a rebbe, they still sent their kids to university. They still were Zionists. <\/p>\n<p>Today it is rare to have a beardless Hasid or a Hasid who doesn&#8217;t hold by everything his rebbe says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his second lecture on R. Shlomo Yosef Zevin for Torah in Motion, historian Marc B. Shapiro says: You cannot be a Lubavitcher and be a Zionist. Lubavitch was always opposed to Zionism. Practically, you can support the state. When &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44680\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-marc-b-shapiro"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44683,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44680\/revisions\/44683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}