Threats & Adversaries

A natural outcome of assimilation and secularism is atheism, and it's a pernicious threat to Jews. Rabbi Kahane lectured Jewry on the lamentable fact that within the broad category of the Jewish people, a nation formed personally by the G-d of the universe as a religious-national unit through national divine revelation at Sinai, we are among the groups on earth that believe the least in G-d. This is an on-going tragedy that has been with Jews as a serious problem for at least the last one hundred years with the establishment of Reform Judaism, although the problem goes back further than that to the beginning of normalization of Jewish citizenship in the Exile.

The percentage of Jews who truly believe in the Holy One is clearly a minority instead of a majority, and those who live according to His mitzvot are a minority within a minority. Even among the Jews of the state of Israel - those who live in holy Eretz Yisrael - over 60% of them are "hilonim," the Hebrew term for secular. It is perplexing that despite the miraculous rebirth of a Jewish state on the eternal homeland of the Jewish people, so many Jews can still ignore the obvious signature of the Creator on the course of human history.

JDL seeks to be a leader among Torah faithful groups leading a vigorous spiritual renewal among Jews world-wide back to G-d and His eternal Torah. This section of our new site will contain articles on the threat posed by atheism. To find out about JDL's efforts to combat atheism and other anti-Jewish missionary movements, visit our Counter-Missionary section.