Motti Inbari

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Jan 23, 2024, 4:41 PM

Young Evangelicals are Drifting from Israel

Last month, tens of thousands gathered on the National Mall in Washington DC for the “March for Israel.” Most of the participants and speakers were Jews, but among them, was Pastor John Hagee, founder and chairman of Christian United...

Jan 23, 2018, 2:30 AM

How Did the Satmar Rebbe Survive the Holocaust?

Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe, was one of the biggest opponents to Zionism and the State of Israel from the ranks of Orthodox Judaism. Over the course of his life, Teitelbaum was involved in dramatic events in different...

Mar 10, 2016, 3:10 PM

Nturei Karta’s Modesty Patrols

Anyone who enters the ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) neighborhood Mea Shearim in Jerusalem can see big signs demanding women not to enter the streets immodestly. In the 1940s the Modesty Patrols were created by Neturei Karta, the anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox movement headed...

Nov 8, 2015, 10:13 PM

Israeli Chief Rabbinate and the Temple Mount Dilemma

After the Six Day War, and the re-establishment of Jewish power over the Temple Mount, the Chief Rabbinate decided to continue the passive tradition on the question of the Temple Mount. In other words, Jews were to confine themselves...

Oct 29, 2015, 4:01 PM

Rabbi Kook and Merkaz Harav Yeshiva’s Attitude towards Going Up the Temple Mount

The activist messianic approach of Religious Zionism, which was fueled by the vision of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook (1865-1935), mandated the goal of the re-establishment of the Temple as a key Zionist objective. Secular reality was perceived as...

Mar 23, 2015, 1:19 PM

Netanyahu Needs Herzog in His Coalition

After the Israeli election came to an end with a strong victory to the right, it makes sense for Prime Minister Netanyahu to form a right wing coalition with his natural partners from the right and the ultra-Orthodox parties...

Jan 5, 2015, 4:30 AM

Orthodox Judaism and the Temple Mount dilemma

Recent rabbinic rulings permitting Jews to ascend the Mount show that Orthodox Judaism can change

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About Me

Dr. Motti Inbari is a Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and the author or editor of eight books. Motti was born and raised in Israel, and his PhD was from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For the last 15 years, he has been living with his family in the United States, currently in Raleigh NC. His Forthcoming book with Kirill Bumin is Christian Zionism of the Twenty-First Century: Evangelical Public Opinion on Israel, expected in 2023 with Oxford University Press.

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