Yawn. ANYTHING other than Torah, including secularism, is a’z for Yidden, if not by strict definition then by its results.

If they were spreading their shtus to Arabs, then you might have an argument, but they are spreading it to JEWS! Therefore they need to be dealt with far more firmly than the medine, itself guilty of shmad going back to the maabarot, will ever do. The hahahaharedim who are busy making us look bad every Shabbos should surround this kibbutz and keep trucks from ever getting to the stores rather than waste time demonstrating against the disruption of pagan remains.

Hindus also speak out against anti-Semitism. But Hinduism is a’z plain and simple and any Yid who gets into it like the Israelis in India is a meshummad plain and simple.

As for you, Daniel, have you done what Rav Lifschitz has done to save bnos Yisroel trapped in marriages to Arabs? When you have done that, come back and tell us how little this tzaddik knows about the world.

Not only is Anthroposophy a philosophy based in Christian thought, it accepts reincarnation which is something we find in our tradition and not in Christian tradition, and its founder, Rudolf Steiner, spoke out loudly against anti-Semitism and was a bitter opponent of the Nazis at the end of his life! Neither Tosafot nor Meiri would have considered Anthroposophy to be Avodah Zara.

#2 – it is as much an offshoot of Christianity, as that Islam is an offshoot of Judaism.

Antroposophy is just a way of life – there is nothing ‘avoda zara’ about it. I know quite well, since I have in the past known many such people. Lifshitz’ claims are baseless and show just how little he knows about the world.

Hopefully, the Edah Charadim community will pressure and possibly boycott Tnuva until they shut down or move the line. This is a fight that is more important than dried up pagan bones and would be supported among all datim.

We should put our energies in closing down all missionary activity and forget about pagan bones.

Notzrus is shituf and might as well be a’z for Yidden, and Rav Lifschitz has dedicated his entire life to making sure not one Yid ends up in the hands of the mission or any other a’z. Whether notzrus is a’z for a ben Noach (a topic for debate but barely worth debating unless perhaps you want to use it break a notzri who believes in “replacement theology”) has nothing to do with Yad leAchim’s purpose and aims.

And frankly this anthroposophomoric cult is plain mishegoss. It has no place in Eretz Yisroel as it is an alien cult.

I still think they should be banned, but not as the article suggests that “R’ Lifshitz explains is avoda zara (idol worship) by every Torah definition of the word.” should be re-examined.