While one might think one has seen it all, but with the IDF Education Corps, one can always expect new surprises in the future. In the latest Chilul Hashem, a pamphlet entitled “Christmas, Enlightenment and Openness” was distributed in the military by Education Corps instructors in the Air Force’s 108 base, the Tzrifin base and via military email.
Thousands of military personnel received the pamphlet that speaks about “Christmas” Kol Berama Radio military correspondent Mendy Rizel reported on Thursday, 19 Teves during the Noam Zeigman program. It is pointed out that over the years, the IDF Rabbinate has been at odds with the Education Corps, which as a rule, is anti-religious and does everything possible to distance personnel from Yiddishkheit while seeking to instill a feeling of secular Zionism in them.
The pamphlet is decorated in the Xmas holiday theme and it offers kfira, speaking about Yeshu and the New Testament and distributed as an official Israel Defense Forces project R”L, paid for in full by Am Yisrael and bearing the IDF logo.
Among the personnel who received it are frum soldiers, dati leumi soldiers and secular soldiers. They expressed profound shock and revulsion over the reading material distributed by the IDF!
“I don’t believe it! Is this the army of the Jewish people or the Christian army? It is a disgrace. What makes it worse is the one person who dared to write to the corps instructor about the material, she responded to him ‘you are primitive’. He responded, ‘if this is primitive than this is what I prefer, being primitive like our Matriarchs and Patriarchs. I spend my entire life in a Jewish incubator only to be exposed to this in the IDF”.
An IDF source responding to a Kol Berama Radio inquiry stated “The IDF does not discriminate against soldiers on the basis of religion, race or sex; serving soldiers from different streams and different places who come with different ideas. This publication is intended to deepen the awareness of the holiday of others among soldiers and officers sitting beside you and the intention was not to hurt anyone who believes differently or thinks differently”.
The second Chilul Hashem speaks for itself, the photo which was sent by the IDF to twitter subscribers under the title “IDF Progress on Gender & Sexuality” R”L.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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No wonder IDF did not win any wars since 1967.
Absurd & ridiculous.
Those who have no pride in their Yiddishkeit are always looking to dilute its greatness & emes.
Guys… Let go!
This is not ours. Trying to make something which is not really ours into something Jewish is just adding to the confusion. Stay out of the whole thing.
We do not have any army until Moshiach comes. If the religious people knew to stay away from what is not ours the Traditional Masorati guys whould be less confued. They would know where to find yiddishkeit and where not look for it.
Also, did the Aguda or RCA say a word about Steven Riskin’s Judeo-Christian propaganda ??
R”l
Every once in a while, it’s good to get a sobering reminder of what the State of Israel is all about.
despicable!!! That’s why the IDF is no place for a frum yid.What will they hand out next? Maybe “mein Kampf” so they can be more self-hating than they already are.
This article is grossly inaccurate. These abominations were not “paid in full by Am Yisrael”. Rather, they were paid in full by the fraudulent and identity-thieving “STATE of Israel”.
Of course, it is NOT a Jewish army. It is, of course, a shmad army of a shmad state that happens to have lots of Zionist (i.e. anti-Jewish) Jews who run that State.
This is insane!
They hate Judaism but promote Christianity and immorality.
That is one of the reasons why Chareidim, even those of us who are not specifically anti-Zionists are against drafting the Chareidim into the army.