Punks and Rabbis: The Mighty Warrior

Early 20th-century Israel was a wild scene. The 2nd Aliyah brought young idealists from Russia and Eastern Europe, escaping persecution but also intoxicated with radical ideas of what their new home could and should be. A clash between these new-world athiest punks and the old-world haredi establishment was inevitable, with the future at stake. So many early American punks were Jewish - The Ramones, The Dictators, Richard Hell, Lou Reed, and on and on. What set these “souls of the world of…