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Title: Rabbi Israel Hess ztl article on Amalek and the Arabs
Post by: shlomo2000 on April 10, 2011, 09:43:03 PM

Hi,

I am looking for an article that Rabbi Israel Hess ztl wrote on Amalek and the Arabs.  He was the rav of Bar Ilan University and evidently lost his position because of the controversy that arose from this article.  Ironically I cannot find the article anywhere.  It was originally published in the Bar Ilan student journal "Bat Kol" in Feb. 1980.
My email is [email protected]

Thank  you.

Title: Re: Rabbi Israel Hess ztl article on Amalek and the Arabs
Post by: muman613 on April 11, 2011, 01:53:10 AM

I cannot find the article you mention, but there is mention of the article in a book which available on google.


http://books.google.com/books?id=PeyXxACwjYwC&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=%22Rabbi+Yisrael+Hess%22&source=bl&ots=sFsgbFlJm7&sig=qDFs08mwcYqFMEPtCpzg5WghHc0&hl=en&ei=jJaiTferK4bQsAPFy836DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Rabbi%20Yisrael%20Hess%22&f=false

It seems that most mainstream sites consider his view 'fundamentalism' while I find it to be a literal understanding of the Torah commandment.