Ultra-Orthodox Torch Israeli Flag in Belgium Bonfire - LGF Pages

Sign In • Register • Forgotten password?

Ultra-Orthodox Torch Israeli Flag in Belgium Bonfire

Follow @Tarkloon

Europe • 5/15/12 1:09:49 pm • Views: 1,756

timesofisrael.com

Dozens of haredi Orthodox schoolchildren participated in a Lag b’Omer bonfire in Antwerp that featured the burning of an Israeli flag.

An eyewitness who photographed the event on May 10 said the boys attended a cheder of the Satmar community — an anti-Zionist Chasidic stream of approximately 150,000 adherents worldwide.

The picture, taken in an interior courtyard, shows a middle-aged man burning a handmade Israeli flag as some 30 boys watch.

“This is one of the first times we have seen this sort of thing in recent years,” Michael Freilich, editor in chief of Belgium’s leading Jewish publication, Joods Actueel, told JTA.

0

Anti-zionist Chasidic Stream Belgium Bonfire Handmade Israeli Flag Haredi Orthodox Israeli Flag Jewish Publication Joods Actueel Ultra-Orthodox Satmar Community Torch Israeli Flag

Tweet

Recent Pages by Thanos (Randall Gross):
When It's OK to Lie: When You're Lying for Jesus The "What to Do in New York City" Open Thread NPI 'Think Tank' Is Latest Racist Outfit to Move to NW Montana Sam Harris: The Fireplace Delusion White Nationalists Sully Immigration Debate - Attack Lindsay Graham

Advertisement

10 comments

1

Sheila Broflovski Tue, May 15, 2012 1:46:29pm

Satmar Hasidim face possible legal action following Antwerp flag burning.

2

funky chicken Tue, May 15, 2012 2:34:07pm

Why would ultra-orthodox Jews hate Israel? Honest question.

3

(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Tue, May 15, 2012 2:58:14pm

re: #2 funky chicken

Knock yourself out: [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

4

Sheila Broflovski Tue, May 15, 2012 2:59:02pm

re: #2 funky chicken

Why would ultra-orthodox Jews hate Israel? Honest question.

It's not all "ultra-Orthodox" Jews, just a noisy minority.

5

(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Tue, May 15, 2012 2:59:09pm

Kinda off-topic: Anyone find this Wikipedia article to be kinda bigotted? Why not name it "Laziness in Haredi Judaism"? [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

6

Bob Levin Tue, May 15, 2012 3:00:10pm

re: #2 funky chicken

There are those, who tend to take things VERY literally, that the state of Israel will only be re-established in the times of the Messiah. Anything before that would be like a premature birth, and hence risk the health and survival of the nation. The obvious problem (and the times of the Messiah are a given), that it's impossible to really know what the time of the Messiah will look like, not to mention so many other unrecognizable events and variables.

So they don't actually hate Israel, they just don't think that Israel is THE Israel.

7

Bob Levin Tue, May 15, 2012 3:10:08pm

The Haredi relationship to more secular Jews, according to the Haredi, would be based of the relationship between the tribes of Isaachar and Zebulun. This relationship constituted a type of protection for Israel. Zebulun was noted for business acumen, while Isaachar occupied itself with the study of Torah. Zebulun took care of Isaachar so that the Torah study could continue unabated.

In modern Israel, each group is convinced they are protecting the other.

8

Sheila Broflovski Tue, May 15, 2012 4:56:38pm

re: #5 Unlike Some People

Kinda off-topic: Anyone find this Wikipedia article to be kinda bigotted? Why not name it "Laziness in Haredi Judaism"? [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

BULLSHIT.

I am Haredi, have a college education, have worked 20 years at a professional career in the automotive industry. I have had periods of unemployment AND IT SUCKED.

Also, my son was in the IDF.

9

Three Chord Monty Tue, May 15, 2012 10:08:55pm

Did you ever see the old "Hasidic Rebel" blog?

Obdicut Wed, May 16, 2012 3:29:41am

re: #4 Learned Mother of Zion

It's not all "ultra-Orthodox" Jews, just a noisy minority.

I was under the impression that the majority of Ashkenazi Haredi groups opposed Israel in one way or another. Isn't that true? What I had heard is that even the Chabad, who are somewhat supportive, still feel that Israel as a secular state is a deeply wrong thing, that nationalism for Israel is wrong.

Auto

This page has been archived.
Comments are closed.

^ back to top ^

Turn off ads by subscribing!
For about 33 cents a day, our subscription option turns off all advertisements at LGF!
Read more...

► LGF Headlines

Loading...

► Tweeted Articles

Loading...

► Tweeted Pages

Loading...

► Top 10 Comments

Loading...

► Bottom Comments

Loading...

► Recent Comments

Loading...

► Tools/Info

► Tag Cloud

► Contact

LGF Pages Create a Page

Featured Pages: Heywood Jabloeme
Voter Fraud In Ohio - “neh, not so much”.
All of which brings you back to one central point: if you care about the integrity of elections and people actually being able to vote, the supposed cures for vote fraud are vastly more destructive than the problem. All evidence suggests that vote fraud is a minuscule, minuscule problem. Voter ID and most of the other nostrums are solutions looking for a problem. ...

2 hours, 24 minutes ago
Views: 67 • Comments: 1
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 1; Kragar
Fox News Host: Punch Obama Voters ‘In the Face’
More: Fox News Host Tells Listeners to Punch Obama Voters 'In the Face' A host of the Fox News show The Five was so angry that the Justice Department had investigated one of the network’s reporters that she told her viewers on Thursday to find anyone who voted for President Barack Obama and “punch them in the face.” “Fox said, we’re targets, clearly ...

4 hours, 33 minutes ago
Views: 398 • Comments: 7
Tweets: 73 • Rating: 2; teleskiguy
911 Dispatcher Tells Woman About To Be Raped ‘There Are No Cops Due To Budget Cuts’
Here's a disturbing story out of Josephine County, OR. A woman calls 911 to report that her abusive ex is trying to break in to her house to hurt her. 911 dispatcher says "Sorry, no cops, can't afford..." seattle.cbslocal.com “Uh, I don’t have anybody to send out there,” the 911 dispatcher told the woman. “You know, obviously, if he comes inside the residence and ...

3 hours, 1 minute ago
Views: 109 • Comments: 1
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 1; Political Atheist
My Response to Todays Speech-Standing O
Only the best of leaders dare to reduce the powers of their office or government. I applaud the effort in the strongest terms. Please support these changes with your own Congressman or Senator. While Obama would not declare an end to the war on terrorism, Obama offered to work with Congress to constrain some of his own authorities for waging it, reflecting what he ...

8 hours, 42 minutes ago
Views: 141 • Comments: 0
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 2; Heywood Jabloeme
Masturbation ‘At the Root of Culture Wars’ - Boing Boing
. . . and that is why he is so sure of the 'miracle of the emaculate conception'". The Atlantic's Hugo Schwyzer has a theory: that masturbation, as the most common sex act, is the heart of modernity's war between Christianity and secularism. Many progressives were bewildered by Antonin Scalia's blistering 2003 dissent in Lawrence v Texas, in which he warned that state laws ...

8 hours, 14 minutes ago
Views: 379 • Comments: 3
Tweets: 61 • Rating: 3; Shiplord Kirel
Watch: Burning Texas Railroad Bridge Crumples Like Dominoes
This wooden trestle was 103 years old but, hey, we're fired up about business in Texas, thanks to low taxes and minimum regulation. A fire toppled a railroad bridge like it was made of dominoes outside the small town of San Saba, Texas. Members of the Lometa, Texas, volunteer fire department arrived on the scene, but they could only contain the fire and ...

8 hours, 12 minutes ago
Views: 293 • Comments: 0
Tweets: 23 • Rating: 2; Skip Intro
Knights Templar Drug Cartel Burns Michoacan, Western State in Mexico
LA RUANA, Mexico -- The farm state of Michoacan is burning. A drug cartel that takes its name from an ancient monastic order has set fire to lumber yards, packing plants and passenger buses in a medieval-like reign of terror. The Knights Templar cartel is extorting protection payments from cattlemen, lime growers and businesses such as butchers, prompting some communities to fight back, ...

12 hours, 5 minutes ago
Views: 250 • Comments: 1
Tweets: 19 • Rating: 1; William Barnett-Lewis
Pope Francis Says Atheists Who Do Good Are Redeemed, Not Just Catholics
Pope Francis rocked some religious and atheist minds today when he declared that everyone was redeemed through Jesus, including atheists. During his homily at Wednesday Mass in Rome, Francis emphasized the importance of "doing good" as a principle that unites all humanity, and a "culture of encounter" to support peace. Using scripture from the Gospel of Mark, Pope Francis explained how upset Jesus' ...

1 day, 5 hours ago
Views: 640 • Comments: 14
Tweets: 17 • Rating: 11; MichaelJ
Man Finds Comic Book Worth $100,000 Being Used as Wall Insulation
While remodeling his newly purchased home in Elbow Lake, Minn., David Gonzalez noticed something unusual amid the old newspapers that had been used as wall insulation. It was a copy of Action Comics No. 1 from 1938, the very first comic to feature the granddaddy of all superheroes, Superman. StarTribune.com spoke with Gonzalez about his amazing find as well as a subsequent family ...

8 hours, 31 minutes ago
Views: 253 • Comments: 1
Tweets: 23 • Rating: 6; Heywood Jabloeme
Ted Cruz: ‘I Don’t Trust the Republicans’
"The senior senator from Arizona urged this body to trust the Republicans. Let me be clear, I don't trust the Republicans," Cruz said. " More: Ted Cruz: 'I Don't Trust the Republicans'

1 day, 2 hours ago
Views: 513 • Comments: 4
Tweets: 16 • Rating: 8

Recent Pages: Heywood Jabloeme
Roll Over Einstein: Meet Weinstein
At 4pm on Thursday at the University of Oxford, the latest attempt to fill the biggest holes in physics will be presented in a lecture at the prestigious Clarendon Laboratory. The man behind the ideas, Eric Weinstein, is not someone you might normally expect to be probing the very edge of theoretical physics. After a PhD in mathematical physics at Harvard University, he ...

11 minutes ago
Views: 22 • Comments: 0
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 0; chadu
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR “Lepers.flv”
Ignore all the comments on the YouTube site Between Jesus Christ Superstar and Jesus of Montreal (check out those movies!), I got a better feel for a blessed man than some weird-ass demigod...

44 minutes ago
Views: 56 • Comments: 0
Tweets: 1 • Rating: 0; Randall Gross
When It’s OK to Lie: When You’re Lying for Jesus
The editing of the Ben Stein interview with Richard Dawkins is analysed in my video "Golden Crocoduck nominees 2012 (Part 3)" at Youtube Video The uncut version of the Comfort interview shown in this video can be found at: "I would murder for free" Youtube Video The dishonestly edited version of the same video is at:"Genius -- the movie"Youtube Video

1 hour, 15 minutes ago
Views: 69 • Comments: 1
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 1; Skip Intro
Rebranding, Continued. Governor Can’t Find a Single Latino in Pennsylvania to Work for Him
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R-PA) brushed away a question about Latinos working in his administration during a roundtable discussion at The Union League in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Friday, telling the moderator, "If you can find us one let me know": MODERATOR: Do you have staff members that are Latino? CORBETT: No, we do not have any staff members in there. If you can ...

13 hours, 5 minutes ago
Views: 181 • Comments: 2
Tweets: 1 • Rating: 3; Political Atheist
Tesla Pays Off All $465M in Federal Loans 9 Years Early
Tesla haters just lost another quiver in their dwindling arsenal. The upstart electric automaker has paid off the entirety of its Department of Energy loan -- a whopping $451.8M -- and did it nine years ahead of schedule. "I would like to thank the Department of Energy and the members of Congress and their staffs that worked hard to create the [Advanced Technology ...

15 hours, 1 minute ago
Views: 136 • Comments: 0
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 3; Vicious Babushka
$40 for Case of Bottled Water? The Free Market at Work in OK
More: $40 for Case of Bottled Water? 'Preying' on Oklahoma Tornado Victims Investigators with the Oklahoma Attorney General's office have already uncovered evidence of businesses taking advantage of the recent tornado's devastation by price-gouging in the weather-ravaged region, including a grocery store accused of charging consumers $40 for a case of water. Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt told ABC News that 30 investigators from ...

16 hours, 26 minutes ago
Views: 296 • Comments: 7
Tweets: 1 • Rating: 3; Bob Dillon
New Method for Producing Clean Hydrogen
Duke University engineers have developed a novel method for producing clean hydrogen, which could prove essential to weaning society off of fossil fuels and their environmental implications. While hydrogen is ubiquitous in the environment, producing and collecting molecular hydrogen for transportation and industrial uses is expensive and complicated. Just as importantly, a byproduct of most current methods of producing hydrogen is carbon monoxide, ...

16 hours, 44 minutes ago
Views: 130 • Comments: 0
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 2; FemNaziBitch
POINT: Unraveling Nice-Nasty Christianity
"Christians should stop wielding religion as a tool of oppression, write Evette Dionne at Clutch magazine." The following is from a link from this article at The Root: YouTube She continued, "That is not a godly energy you're giving off now! I don't understand being so saturated in a dogma and a theology that you would not embrace your sister in her deepest need ...

1 day, 8 hours ago
Views: 273 • Comments: 2
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 1; thecommodore
WAPO’s Glenn Kessler Gives Three “Pinocchios” To Claim of Doctored Emails
It has long been part of the Washington game for officials to discredit a news story by playing up errors in a relatively small part of it. Pfeiffer gives the impression that GOP operatives deliberately tried to "smear the president" with false, doctored e-mails. But the reporters involved have indicated they were told by their sources that these were summaries, taken from notes ...

2 days, 9 hours ago
Views: 390 • Comments: 4
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 4; kristina37
We know how to reduce the incidence of common medical conditions but …
Obesity is on the rise-- as is the incidence of Heart Disease, Diabetes, Stroke and various forms of Cancer. And, shockingly, diseases that had in the past begun in old age are now appearing at much earlier ages. A groundbreaking scientific study showed how easily (and inexpensively) the rate of occurrence of these and other serious illness could be greatly reduced-- but this information ...

3 days, 9 hours ago
Views: 246 • Comments: 2
Tweets: 0 • Rating: 3

Tweets by @Green_Footballs

Frank says:

Information doesn't kill you... -- Senate Hearing on "Porn Rock", 1985 during an exchange with a Born Again Christian.