Kalman Libeskind: Sivan Rahav-Meir speaks Jewish, and there are those who drive them crazy – News in Israel

The other day, I read in Haaretz an article that claimed, among other things, that Sivan Rahav-Meir did not really do journalistic work, and that she was “a very unaffected person.” It made me smile. Because if Mehra-Meir is not a journalist, or is not an influencer, or is not an influential journalist, then what in the hell is spending so much energy on “Haaretz” writers? What makes them win her so many articles, competing with each other who are more blunt, who despise and who dislike?

What is it about this woman that drives them so mad? What leads one to call her a “missionary” and to accuse her of “preaching religion,” and the other to call her “a dangerous call,” and the third to scoff at her “nationalist bastard,” and the fourth article to accuse her of being a “Jew who has done away with the very idea” Of wanting to be a citizen of the world, “and next in explaining that she is a” dangerous woman, “who” breaks her views, “and” abounds in the wisdom of stubborn Yiddishkeit, kitsch, and conservative clichés, “and this is only a partial list.

And you’re facing these violent texts that go into it at two hundred miles an hour, trying to figure out what you missed. What finger is it calling them, that they don’t stop shouting? Let’s think for a moment, though. She has no political statement, and she does not quarrel with anyone, sending her texts on this week’s affair to WhatsApp only to those who ask, and to her lectures, as far as I have been able to find out, no one has yet been forced to go against his will.

It’s easier for me to understand why a faculty colleague is driving them crazy. Staff is on the main journalist road. It opens editions, it sits on every interpretive panel, it is impossible to turn on the TV on Channel 12 and not see its face. But illuminating? After all, we can indulge in communication 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and still barely encounter it.

But it is that Sivan Rehav Meir speaks Judith, and that drives them crazy. The “God-help”, and “Our Mother,” and “Our Tradition,” are burning their fuses. They will tell themselves that they are in favor of freedom of expression, and against religious coercion, but will fight with all their might against the one who uses that freedom and does not force anyone, yet – a devil – the ratings of her record-breaking lessons. With this mass free choice of the public – hearing it for Shabbos, or reading the “daily part” it connects every morning – they can’t live.

If there was a danger that the illuminating Sivan would take over all positions, hold all the microphones, and transmit the teachings of Moses every hour, he fulfilled. I would understand the concern. But Sivan Rahav-Meir, just as she suggests herself, is a “weird chicken” in the media. There are not many like her. And yet, even when around the coop there are a thousand other birds – whose uniform and rhythmic cucurico calls hardly allow their kind of cries to be heard – it’s still not enough for them. Because they are not willing to hear even one chicken singing another song.

Precisely for this reason, they point the fire at a faculty member. Exactly for this reason they are directing the fire to the Aral Sgt. They speak high on pluralism, but act as one who wants pure and clean communication here, where only their voices will be heard.

From Kalman Libskind’s column on Ma’ariv – to the full column – click here

Careful, Mission

Sivan Rahav-Meir as a governor, as a representative, holds positions that many of them share in common. She’s not the only one who thinks the IDF is a body that needs to focus on triumphing over the enemy rather than gender struggles. She’s not the only one who assimilates her and feels a pinch in her heart when Danielle Peake marries a gentile, even if he is called Tarantino and is a huge star. In the media, when it comes to victimization, it is the parents who complain that their children receive too much Judaism in the classroom, rather than trying to bring in other parents who think their children receive that Judaism too much.

“Where are these parents?”, She asked Haim Challenge. “I’m sure there are hundreds of thousands. One such parent once came to the studio? One time he received a petah here as the same parents (who complain about religion – KL) receive?” And why does it get so out of the mind? Because there are facts. There are realities and realities. It shows that unlike the brainwashing of all media campaigns, the state is marching in the direction of seclusion, much more than it is marching in the direction of religion.

I still remember, when I was a kid, the battles around here about whether or not a movie theater would open on Saturday night. Today it looks like a prehistoric memory. Today everything is open. Open restaurants, and open entertainment venues, and open malls, and open movie theaters. But as long as the determinants of discourse continue to regard the claim that religion here is legitimate, and the opposite claim as despicable – that is what will be broadcast. And on this very basis, Sivan Rahav-Meir’s positions will continue to look strange and unusual.

And just beyond that point, when Chaim challenges her conversation with her in the “missionary” nickname, you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. For 70 years, the media has been full of fatigue in countless journalists washing our minds in an unparalleled mission. They wash our minds that we must give up parts of our land of Israel. They wash our minds around their liberal-secular concept. They washed our brains for Oslo, and washed our brains for the disengagement, and washed our brains that it was legitimate to go into a political partnership with terrorists, and washed our brains of religion, and washed our brains of religious coercion.

Then, after many years of such missionary brainwashing, they look at the few in the media who make a voice that is not their voice and shout: “Careful, missionary.” They don’t want balance, they don’t want diversity, they just can’t hear anything different from what they’ve become used to.

From Kalman Libskind’s column on Ma’ariv – to the full column – click here