Chabad Bot: Add material from Biale et al., Hasidism: A New History (2018) on settlement, territorial withdrawal, Arabs/Palestinians, violence and Zionism

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Add material from Biale et al., Hasidism: A New History (2018) on settlement, territorial withdrawal, Arabs/Palestinians, violence and Zionism

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	His uncle by marriage, [[Joel Teitelbaum]] of [[Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)\|Satmar]], saw the move as tainted by secular Zionism. Halberstam replied that the sanctity of the Land of Israel did not depend on the government in power.<ref name="Rabinowicz63" /><ref name="Rabinowicz64" /> Rabinowicz writes that in 1963 a religious dispute nearly led him to leave Israel, and that President [[Zalman Shazar]] talked him out of it.<ref name="Rabinowicz66" />		His uncle by marriage, [[Joel Teitelbaum]] of [[Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)\|Satmar]], saw the move as tainted by secular Zionism. Halberstam replied that the sanctity of the Land of Israel did not depend on the government in power.<ref name="Rabinowicz63" /><ref name="Rabinowicz64" /> Rabinowicz writes that in 1963 a religious dispute nearly led him to leave Israel, and that President [[Zalman Shazar]] talked him out of it.<ref name="Rabinowicz66" />
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		+	Biale and his co-authors write that the move prompted "a ferocious attack" by Teitelbaum, and that "Defamations, diatribes, and some physical violence accompanied this clash".<ref name="BialeBook727">David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel C. Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv and Marcin Wodziński, ''Hasidism: A New History'', Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018, p. 727.</ref> In a newspaper interview Halberstam argued that after the Holocaust "the Land of Israel seems to be the only refuge for the Torah and, above all—there are no Gentiles there", and that whoever stays in the Diaspora for religious reasons "virtually anchors himself to the Gentiles that are there". The authors write that he "was even more vitriolic against non-Jews" than against secular Jews, but that he instructed that there be no discrimination between Jew and Gentile in his Netanya hospital, and ruled that doctors should break the Sabbath if healing a Gentile required it.<ref name="BialeBook728">David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel C. Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv and Marcin Wodziński, ''Hasidism: A New History'', Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018, p. 728.</ref> They note that the Netanya institutions serve "the residents of the whole area, including Arabs".<ref name="BialeBook710">David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel C. Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv and Marcin Wodziński, ''Hasidism: A New History'', Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018, p. 710.</ref> In his Holocaust theology, they write, the nations of the world were "the earthly embodiments of the evil snake", and "this sweeping hostility to the Gentiles may explain why Halberstam, like the Rebbe of Belz, embraced a kind of ultra-Orthodox Zionism, leading to the establishment of the settlement of Kiryat Sandz".<ref name="BialeBook664">David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel C. Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv and Marcin Wodziński, ''Hasidism: A New History'', Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018, p. 664.</ref> He opposed Zionism "on account of its secular character" rather than on the messianic grounds of Satmar, "even though he supported the renewed settlement in the Land of Israel", and he coined the hostile term ''goyhudim'' ("Jewentiles") for secular Jews.<ref name="BialeBook730">David Biale, David Assaf, Benjamin Brown, Uriel Gellman, Samuel C. Heilman, Moshe Rosman, Gadi Sagiv and Marcin Wodziński, ''Hasidism: A New History'', Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018, p. 730.</ref>

	In the late 1990s Rabinowicz described Kiryat Sanz as home to about 400 families. Its Great Synagogue has an Italian Ark about 300 years old and more than 1,000 seats.<ref name="Rabinowicz53" /> The neighbourhood has schools, a yeshiva and a kollel, as well as institutions for Sephardi Jews, including an orphanage and a synagogue using the Sephardi rite.<ref name="Rabinowicz54" /><ref name="Rabinowicz55" /> It also has a home for the elderly, a diamond factory, shops and a hotel, and the beach has separate bathing days for men and women. Only religious Jews are admitted as residents, and television is not allowed.<ref name="Rabinowicz55" />		In the late 1990s Rabinowicz described Kiryat Sanz as home to about 400 families. Its Great Synagogue has an Italian Ark about 300 years old and more than 1,000 seats.<ref name="Rabinowicz53" /> The neighbourhood has schools, a yeshiva and a kollel, as well as institutions for Sephardi Jews, including an orphanage and a synagogue using the Sephardi rite.<ref name="Rabinowicz54" /><ref name="Rabinowicz55" /> It also has a home for the elderly, a diamond factory, shops and a hotel, and the beach has separate bathing days for men and women. Only religious Jews are admitted as residents, and television is not allowed.<ref name="Rabinowicz55" />

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