A Chabad Rabbi is urging religious Jews to give up on Israel:
Shalom Dov Wolpe, a Chabad rabbi, argues in a new book that the disengagement is proof that religious Zionists should abandon their faith in the state of Israel as a vehicle for ultimate spiritual redemption. In Between Light and Dark, Wolpe states, in an I-told-you-so way, that the disengagement proved Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the last Chabad-Lubavitch rebbe, was right about rejecting Zionism as a way of hastening the messianic era.
Yeah – things could get really bad. If the relationship between ultra-Orthodox Jews and the State of Israel keeps declining, some ultra-Orthodox Jews might even stop serving in the army… start disproportionately utilizing social entitlements… nevermind.
That was inappropriate. There are plenty of extremely patriotic religious Zionists. Just not this guy.





