Eretz Acheret is an Israeli NGO comprised of people from different sectors of society with a broad range of backgrounds and personal beliefs. The goal of this website is to provide Israeli and Diaspora Jews with a platform for open discourse and dialogue on all facets of the Israel-Diaspora relationship, as well as the opportunity to express their identity through the written word.
 
If Naomi Is a Secular Jew, Ruth the Moabite - Does Not Have To Be a Religious Jew
By: Dimitri Slivniak  |  05/09/2010
Dimitri Slivniak has some scores to settle with Israel’s Chief Rabbinate and with Israeli society in general over the hypocrisy that we customarily exercise, in his opinion, toward immigrants from the former Soviet Union. He suggests that we should be creative
The Others
By Dina Markon  |  05/09/2010
"'In Russia, I felt like an outsider, and here I feel like an outsider,' is how Israelis who are not halakhically considered Jews (mainly the children of Jewish fathers) and caught in a vacuum of identity in Israeli life –– commonly characterize their situation." Dina Markon trailed the speakers at ...
At the breaking point
By Yakov Gunchel  |  05/09/2010
Jewish law as it was kept in Ethiopia, until the community’s emigration to the pot of destruction, was based on an oral tradition in its purest form. Sons watched their fathers’ actions and held on to them, and girls walked in their mothers’ footsteps. Yakov Gunchel described the crisis of Ethiopian youth who are restl...
Letter from London – My Proustian, honey cake moment
By Antony Lerman  |  05/09/2010
Not quite the same as Proust’s madeleine, the soft, fluted pastry that triggers memory in Remembrance of Things Past, the texture, aroma and taste of my mother’s dense honey cake nonetheless unfailingly flood back as Rosh Hashanah approaches. Since my mother died over 30 years ago, the image of that dark, rich sweetnes...
Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  05/09/2010
Sometimes we can define a vacancy, or even notice it, only when we face a concrete substance, or an object. It happened to me just last weekend, unexpectedly. I was invited for a dinner at the house of a friend, who is a descendent of a German-Jewish family, on her mother's side. Generally, I know her family story...
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