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Thursday, September 16, 2004 |
Scotsman: "A follower of the controversial Kabbalah sect made famous by Madonna was found today to be insane when she killed her great grandmother and former boyfriend."
Straits Times: "Madonna, a student of Jewish mysticism, was arriving in Israel for the Jewish New Year, which begins at sundown on Wednesday."
Forget about Jewish mysticism, it's more like voodoo for the gullible.
"The Kabbalah Centre exploits and manipulates the Jewish religion. This is not true Judaism. It's got as much to do with Judaism and Kabbalah as Scientology has to do with science. They appeal to the egos of celebrities by claiming that following their voodoo crap makes them somehow 'spiritually enlightened'."
You can compare the traditional Kabbalah to the alchemistic tradition of the Middle Ages, a lot of hocus-pocus.
Religious fanaticism is always dangerous. It uses religion for dirty political ends.
Haaretz: "On Tuesday night Rabbi Yossi Dayan, a former member of the outlawed Kach party, declared on Channel 2 that he would be prepared to carry out a ceremony putting a curse on Sharon if the Gaza disengagement plan is not called off. The ceremony, called Pulsa Denura, was carried out before Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995."
Sunday Herald: "There was ruin and terror in Manhattan, but, over the Hudson River in New Jersey, a handful of men were dancing. As the World Trade Centre burned and crumpled, the five men celebrated and filmed the worst atrocity ever committed on American soil as it played out before their eyes."
Haaretz: "Four Israelis arrested in New York on September 11, 2001, a short while after the attacks on the World Trade Center, filed a multi-million-dollar suit in the United States on Monday against the American Department of Justice."
Uri Avnery: "Two shocking manifestos were published this week. Both call for comment.
One of them declares that dismantling the settlements in the Gaza Strip is a 'crime against humanity'. It does not mention that they were set up on the land reserves of a million Palestinians crowded in the tiny strip, and rob them of their scarce water. Their removal, it says, is an 'expression of tyranny, evil and arbitrariness'. Officers and soldiers are called upon not to take part in this 'ethnic cleansing'.
The second manifesto declares that the Halakha (Jewish religious law) commands the killing of innocent Palestinian civilians if this helps to save Jews. It is signed by the heads of the 'Arrangement Yeshivot', the West Bank settlement rabbis and other religious leaders. They were later joined by one of the two chief rabbis (the Sephardic one).
May God protect us from those who would speak in His name."
10:57:31 AM 
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© Copyright 2004 Hetty Litjens.
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