THE HOLOCAUST IS OVER WE MUST RISE FROM ITS ASHES

dogma are the most dangerously violent, racist, and lawless element that threatensIsrael’s integrity. They are the day laborers that toil to destroy the current state’sstructures. Ginzburg is their prophet. He was born in America and studiedmathematics and philosophy, then repented and became religious. When he wasabout twenty years old, in the mid-1960s, he immigrated to Israel and became afollower of Chabbad, the Lubavich faithful. He lives in Kfar Chabad and teachesHassiduth, Kabala and Messianism to the masses. His name appears in the mediaoccasionally, almost always in political context. He once called for the boycott ofArab goods. He was active in publishing the book on Baruch Goldstein, theBrooklyn-born physician who massacred twenty-nine praying Arabs in the Cave ofthe Patriarchs in Hebron in 1994, and praised him. His deeds and followers underlinea reality happening just under our nose, the dissemination of Israeli Race Theory.While many study this abomination, nobody seems to care. An exception is Dr.Jonathan Garb, a brilliant young intellectual and among the most impressive of Jewishscholars I have ever met. His knowledge encompasses the universe and hisunderstanding is deep and subtle. This is how he recently described Ginzburg and hisactions:Rabbi Yitzhak Ginzburg’s writing and teachings express anothertransition, from increasing the interest in force . . . to de facto affiliationwith radical circles of religious Zionism . . . By extensive use of newtechnologies and Internet sites . . . Ginzburg greatly expanded hissupport base. His associates in different periods include writers, artistsand radical political activists . . . from the alternative settlement of BatAyin, his followers established in the Gush Etzion region...a squad wentout and carried out attacks against Palestinian civilians. [His positionssuch as] the distinction between “Jewish blood” and the blood ofthose who are not Jews, deportation of Palestinians and harsh militaryactions against them . . . attracted to him many of the “continuinggeneration” and Hills Youth in the settlements . . . and led to hisadministrative detention, an unusual step against Jews. 1Ginzburg’s writings, teachings, and beliefs shed light on a great darkness that veilssignificant parts of religious Judaism in Israel and abroad during these days. Aroundthe hardcore groups led by Ginzburg and others are ripples of faith and support, of