ideology Archives – Jewish Journal

What Midrash Can Teach Us About Our Current Social and Political Turmoil

Monica Osborne August 10, 2020

There is a lot to be learned from the margins, and from the spaces and silences between words and sentences.

At the center, battling left and right extremism

Rob Eshman August 18, 2016

It’s not going to end.

History Behind What Makes Hamas Tick

Jewish Telegraphic Agency February 2, 2006

Hamas, which will form the next Palestinian Authority government, has an ideology that is based on the destruction of Israel through jihad, or Muslim \”holy war.\” The group\’s 1988 charter states that \”Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.\”

Rudolph Linked to Anti-Jewish Ideology

Peter Ephross June 5, 2003

Eric Rudolph was arrested Saturday in western North Carolina after a five-year search by investigators. In total, he is believed to be responsible for four bombings, in which two people were killed and 150 people injured.

Life of a Footsoldier

Andrea Adelson April 3, 2003

Shmuel Marcus is a bit like the lucky son of an ambitious frontier storekeeper, who relies on family to staff a second storefront.

Since January, Marcus, 27, has operated Orange County\’s newest Chabad from a living room alcove of the second-floor Cypress apartment he shares with his 25-year-old wife, Bluma, and two young children.

Scion of an unusual family, Marcus has joined the equally unusual society of shluchim (emissaries). They are foot soldiers for a powerful ideology of outreach by the Chabad-Lubavitch branch of Orthodox Judaism. Trailblazers like Marcus must solicit their own financial support and, with their wives, make a lifetime commitment to remain in often-remote areas, ranging from Armenia to Zaire. In not-so-remote California, 20 new sites are planned this year alone in places such as Calabasas and Monterey. The Golden State already has the largest concentration of Chabad centers outside of Israel.