Elizabeth Rubin reports on a high school that indoctrinated girls with fanatical settler ideology:
Rav Gadi’s inspiration—what makes him an innovator, if you like—was to encourage girls to become front-line troops in the family combat between the settlers and the state. In an interview with a settler magazine, Rav Gadi says that the role of the body is "to express and reveal after contemplation the entirety of man’s internal infinite essence." By now, the state and nation should be the macro for this private expression. That’s what his mentor Rav Kook had envisioned. But it hasn’t happened yet, and Rav Gadi is impatient to get there. "I crave the kingdom," he writes. "Don’t wait until the Lord, blessed be he, brings us redemption. Get up and initiate." Rav Gadi and his flock have to work harder to build a physical home for the divine presence. And who better to serve as the handmaidens of God’s kingdom on earth than a flock of adoring, fervent teenage girls?
The parallels with Islamist extremism are not exactly reassuring, are they?
The Dish 