Secular Haskala
Jewish Brothers in Conflict

The Age of Enlightenment toppled the authority of the Church, and the haskala did the same in the Jewish world. Promoting itself as the solution to anti-Semitism, the haskala advocated destruction of the old customs and the adoption of a new secular culture. This created a disastrous rift between religious and secular Jews that continues to play itself out in the current generation and in the modern State of Israel.