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1 INDEX 1 A African Initiated Churches (AICs), , 237 in Israel, 232, 235 African labor migrants in Israel, 228 Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, the, 229, 231 Age of Aquarius, the, 156, , 166, 167 Anthroposophy Anthroposophical Society, the, 135, 136, Steiner, Rudolf ( ), , 145 8, 158 Waldorf School, the, 142 anti-semitism Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the, 143 in Theosophy, 142, 146 Article 417 of the Penal Law, (Witchcraft Impersonation), 119, 120 Artzi Padan, Mira, 176 8, 180, 181, 183 5, 191n4, 191n5, 192n6, 192n9, 192n12 Ashkenazi Israeli Jews, 5, 23, 58, 157, 214n6 Ashlag, Baruch, 24, 28, 35n2 Ashlag, Rabbi Yehuda Leib ( ), 22 5, 27, 28, 30, 31, 35n1, 35n6 Atlantis, 138 Aviraz, Ze'e, 157 Avital, Yemima ( ), xiii, Note: Page numbers with n denote notes. The Author(s) 2017 S. Feraro, J.R. Lewis (eds.), Contemporary Alternative Spiritualities in Israel, Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities, DOI /

2 244 INDEX B Baha i faith, the, xv Bailey, Alice ( ), , 162, 165, 170, 171n2 Berg, Philip Kabbalah Centre, the, 24, 26 9, 31 Kabbalah for the Layman, 26 National Institute for Research in Kabbalah, 26 Berg, Yehuda Living Kabbalah: A Practical System for Making the Power Work for You, 27 The Power of Kabbalah: Thirteen Principles to Overcome Challenges and Achieve Fulfillment, 27 Besant, Annie ( ), 137, , 144 Bible, the, 9, 44, 88, 91, 143, 239n21 Bill for the Treatment of Hurtful Cults, , 120 Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna ( ) Aryan myth, 144 Isis Unveiled (1877), 137, 143 racial theories, 144 The Secret Doctrine (1889), 138 Vedic literature, 143 Blum, Ilan, 48 Bnei Baruch Laitman, Michael, 24, 28 30, 35n6 Yachad, 29 Brendwein, Yehuda Zvi ( ), 26 Brotherhood of the Cross and Star (BCS), the, 222, 229, 231, 232, 236, 238n19, 239n22, 239n23 Buddhism, xiii, 91 Butler, Judith, 176, 179 C Caddy, Eileen, 161, 162 Canaanite movement (1940s), The, 13 Canaanite Reconstructionism, 212, 217n23 Canaanites, the, 143, 216n22 capitalism, 22, 41, 98, 104, 186 Late-Capitalism, 33 Carroll, Lee, 157, 166, 167, 169 channeling Alice Bailey ( ), and, 158 attitudes towards Heaven, in, 162 'Course in Miracles' and the, 162 Dorothy McLean, and, 157, 160 Eileen Caddy, and, 161 eschatology, in, 164, 166, Israel, in, 157, 163 Jane Roberts, and, 157 Kryon, 157, 166 Lee Carroll, and, 157, 166, 169 Sanaya Roman, and, 157 'Space Brothers,' and, 160 Ze'ev Aviraz, and, 157 Chen, Elior, 128, 129 Chief Rabbinate, 58, 224 Christianity, 140, 144, Christian Science, 33, 160 counterculture, the, 97, 111 D Descartes, René ( ), 32 Druze, xv, 142, 214n8 E Eddy, Mary baker ( ), 33 Edison, Thomas Alva ( ), 137 Eisen, Dina, M.D., 50 2

3 INDEX 245 Emerson, Ralph Waldo ( ), 32 Emmanuel Movement, 33 enlightenment, the, 22, 33, 159, 166, 239n21 Esotericism, 202 Ethiopian Jews in Israel Beta Israel, 222 7, 230, 234 6, 237n1, 238n9 Falash Mura, 222 7, 230, 235, 236, 237n1, 238n10 Pentecostal Judaism, 225 practice of Christianity, by certain, Ezrahi, Rabbi Ohad, 3, 5 7, 9 11, 16n2, 16n3 F Facebook, 135, 145, 214n5, 215n13 familyism, 61 festivals, New Age identity construction, in, xv, Israeliness, in, 105, Findhorn, 160, 161 G Gafni, Rabbi Mordechai, 5, 16n2 Geeta Iyengar Yoga: A Gem for Women, 177 Glinka, Juliana ( ), 143 Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas, 145 governmental reports on NRMs, in Israel Inter-ministerial Committee for the Examination of the Cult Phenomenon ( New Groups ) in Israel (1987), 116 Report of the Inter-ministerial Committee for the Coordination of the Work of Government Ministries Regarding the Activities of Mystical Cults in Israel (1995), 117 Report of the Israeli Police: Cults in Israel (1982), 116 Report of the Ministry of Welfare and Social Services Team: An Examination of the Phenomenon of Cults in Israel (2011), 117 H Haifa, xv, 122, 191n1 Halakha, 23, 26, 29, 42 Hasidism, 23 Heelas, Paul, 5, 16, 22, 33, 92, 93, 99, 155, 170 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich ( ), 24 hegemony, 8, 33, 34, 59, 75, 97 Hellenistic philosophy, 23 Hermetic Literature, 138 Hinduism, 146 holocaust, the, 40, 161 Hopkins, Emma Curtis ( ), 33 Hume, Alan Octavian ( ), 139 I Ibn Ezra, Abraham ( ), 23 India, 136, 138, 139, 146, 150, 159, 177, 239n22 Indian National Congress (INC), 139

4 246 INDEX Institute of Jewish Secular Rites, The, 59, 69, 70, 72, 74 Irigaray, Luce, 175, 183, 184, 192n11 ISKCON, xvi, 33 Israel African Initiated Churches (AICs), in, , 235, 237 African labor migrants, in, 228 Anthroposophy, xvi, Arab minority, in, xiv Article 417 of the Penal Law, (Witchcraft Impersonation), 119 Ashkenazi Jews, in, 58, 157, 214n6 Baha'i faith, the, xv Bill for the Treatment of Hurtful Cults, , 119, 120 channeling, in, 156 8, 163 6, Chief Rabbinate, of, 58, 224 Ethiopian-Israeli Jews, familyism, in, 61 Governmental reports on NRMs, in, Harduf Kibbutz, 147 Institute of Jewish Secular Rites, The, 59, 69, 70, 72, 74 ISKCON, xv, 33 Jew Age, xiii, xv, 42 Jewish and democratic state, as a, xii Kabbalah, 3, 6, 21 36, 143, 146 'mind Control' in NRMs, 128 Mizrahi Jews, in, xvi, 168, 170, national-religious Jews, in, 63 Neo-Kabbalah movements, 21 Neo-Liberal economics, adaptation of, 34 Neopaganism, in, , 208, 212 New Age Judaism (NAJ), in, xiv, 3 6, 8 16 non-orthodox wedding rituals, in, 57 NRMs in Constitutional Law Cases, in, NRMs in Criminal Law Cases, in, Pentecostalism, in, 222, 223, 225 7, 229, 230, 236 population(s), xv, 52, 87, 117, 168, 205, 214n8 Rabbinical Courts Jurisdiction (Marriage and Divorce) Law ( ), in, 58 Rainbow festival, xv Reform and Conservative Judaisms, in, 59 the return to the Jewish bookcabinet trend, in, 58 secular batei midrash, in, 59 Shamanism, 59 spiritual care, in, 40, 63, Theosophy, transcendental meditation, 31, 146 Yemima Method, the, 39, 40, 42, 50 2 Yoga for Women courses, xvi Zionism, 145, 147, 148 Israeli Defense Force, the, 227 Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the, xiv, 61, 62 J Jerusalem, 26, 39, 40, 48, 50, 66 9, 72, 73, 124, 129, 226, 233, 238n11 Jew Age, 42 Judaism, 3 16, 27, 34, 42, 59, 72, 74, 75, 89, 91, , 136, 142 7, 202, 211, 217n24, 222, 224 6, 236

5 INDEX 247 K Kabbalah, 3, 6, 21 36, 143, 146 Kabbalah Centre, the Berg, Philip, 24, 26 9, 31 Kaufman, Yakir, Dr., 43, 50, 51 Krakovsky, Levi Isaac ( ), 24 Krishnamurti, Jiddu ( ), 137, , 144, 158 L Laitman, Michael Basic Concepts in Kabbalah: Expanding Your Inner Vision, 30 The Kabbalah Experience (in Hebrew), 30 Kabbalah for the People (in Hebrew), 30 Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life (in Hebrew), 29 A Look at Kabbalah (in Hebrew), 29 Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah (in Hebrew), 30 Langford, Jeremy, 26, 35n2 Leadbeater, Charles Webster ( ), 144 Lévi, Eliphas ( ), 143 M Maimonides (d. 1204), 45, 47 Marxism, 24, 97 masculine vs. feminine, 73, 141 McLean, Dorothy, 157, 160, 161 menstruation, discourse on, 191 Fertility Awareness Method, and the, 178, 181 Mesmer, Franz Anton ( ), 32 messianic Jews, 225, 226, 236 Middle East, the, xii Mind vs. Body dualism, 180 Mizrahi Israeli Jews, 215n9, 217n24 N National Institute for Research in Kabbalah, 26 national-religious Israeli Jews, 63, 190 Nazism, 145 neo-canaanite discourse (in Jewish New Age), 5, 14, 15, xiv neo-kabbalah movements Bnei Baruch, 24, 28 30, 35n4, 35n6 Kabbalah Centre, the, 24, 26 8 Neopaganism Canaanite Reconstructionism, 212, 217n23 Derech Ha'Kesem (2006), 202 Eclectic Pagans, 202, 214n7 Israeli Pagan festivals, 206 Kessem, Rena, 202 Mabon/Autumn Equinox Sabbat, 199 Wicca, 200 1, 204, 213, 214n7, 216n17 Nesher Brown, Rona, 176, , 191n5 New Age Judaism (NAJ) in Israel Bayit Chadash, 5, 16n2 destruction of the Temple, in, 3, 6, 9, 10 Hamakom, 5, 6, 16n2 neo-canaanite narrative, in, xiv, 5 New Age optimism, New Social Movements (NSMs), the study of, 97 New Thought, 33 Nissim (Damary), Gil, 50, 71 non-orthodox wedding rituals, 57

6 248 INDEX NRMs in Constitutional Law Cases in Israel, NRMs in Criminal Law Cases in Israel, O Occultism, 138 oicotypification, 201 4, 213 Olcott, Henry Steel ( ), Olumba Olumba Obu, 231, 239n21 and the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, 229 Orthodox Church, the, 227, 228n14, 233 P Palestine, the British mandate of, 13, 24, 144, 216n21 Pentecostalism, 222 7, , 236, 238n15 Petah Tikvah, 29 postmodernism, 96, 98, 105 Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The, 143 R Rabbi Nachman of Breslov ( ), 45 Rabbinical Courts Jurisdiction (Marriage and Divorce) Law ( ), The, 58 Rainbow festival, the, xv Ratzon, Goel, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130 return to the Jewish book-cabinet trend, the, 58, 59 Roberts, Jane, 157 Roman, Sanaya, 157 Romanticism, 32, 33 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques ( ), 32 S secular batei midrash, 59 Shamanism, 59 'Space Brothers', 160 spiritual care, xiii, 39, 40, 50, 52, Spiritualism, 137, 138, 140, 160 Steiner, Rudolf ( ), , 145, 147, 148, 158 T Taylor, Charles, 10, 12, 22, 31, 32 Tel Aviv, xvi, xiv, 26, 28, 35n3, 40, 72, 115, 124, 145, 172n4, 226, 228, 231, 233, 234, 238n12, 238n14, 238n19 Theosophy Besant, Annie ( ), 137, , 144 Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna ( ), , 143 6, 148, 159 Edison, Thomas Alva ( ), 137 Glinka, Juliana ( ), 143 Great Brotherhood, The, 137 Hume, Alan Octavian ( ), 139 India, 136, 138, 139, 146, 150, 150n1, 150n2, 150n6 Indian National Congress, 139 Isis Unveiled (1877), 137, 143 Israeli Theosophical Section, 135, 146 Krishnamurti, Jiddu ( ), 137, , 144, 158

7 INDEX 249 Leadbeater, Charles Webster ( ), 144 Occultism, 138 Order of the Star in the East (OSE), 140 The Secret Doctrine (1889), 138 Steiner, Rudolf ( ), , 145, 147, 148, 158 Theosophical Society, The, , 145, 146, , 150n1, 150n6, 150n10 The Theosophist, 138, 148 The Theosophist, 138m, 148 Transcendentalists, 32 transcendental meditation, 31, 146 U ultra-orthodox Judaism, 202 United States, the, 97, 127, 137 Utilitarian self, the, 21 3, 28, 31 4 V Vedic literature, 143 von Sivers, Marie ( ), 140 W Waldorf School, The, 142 Worcester, Elwood ( ), 33 Y Yachad party, the, 29 Yemima Method, the, 39, 40, 42, 45, 50 2 yoga, 31, 36n7, 91, 141, 160 Yoga for Women courses in Israel, xvi, Yom Kippur War, xii Yosef, Ovadia ( ), 223 Z Zionism, 16n1, 145, 147, 148 Zohar, the, 28