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Mastering Our Own Fate

Voldemort's return and the new anti-Semitism
By Shlomo Wagner  |  03/09/2009
On the face of it, the Harry Potter stories take place in a fictional "Wizarding World" that has nothing to do with our universe. On the face of it, these tales deal with the struggle of one boy with extraordinary abilities against the forces of evil that threaten to take over the world. Shlomo Wagner offers ...

"About the claim that the State of Israel is illegitimate"
By Uriel Abulof and Nava Lowenheim  |  03/09/2009
Elhanan Yakira, the head of the Philosophy Department of the Hebrew University, spent a year of his life contending with the claims, both from abroad and within Israel, of the nonlegitimacy of the State of Israel.

Europe's new religion
By Michael Erlich  |  03/09/2009
The state of Israel is fighting yesterday's war in Europe. Those charged with explaining Israel's case have not yet assimilated the fact that it is human rights groups, not governments, that now decide Israel's fate in Europe's court of public opinion.

Delayed reaction? Contemporary Judaism in a post-Holocaust world
By Moshe Shner  |  03/09/2009
The dispute over the future of the territories occupied by Israel in the Six -Day War has divided Israeli society for over three decades. Some consider it to be only one of many weighty existential disputes that have divided the Jewish people over the generations. Moshe Shner contends they are wrong

A cosmic love story
By Baruch Kahana  |  03/09/2009
Love is the only platform for the development of the psyche and the formulation of the awareness of the authentic self. Baruch Kahana, a clinical psychologist, asserts that Hasidism's attitude to each and every Jew is identical to that of a loving mother to her child, the same attitude that is the platform that en...

A sober "yes" to Europe
By Nitzan Horowitz  |  03/09/2009
Nitzan Horowitz, who served for six years as the Haaretz correspondent in Paris, takes a candid look at the skeletons in Europe's cellars, and pulls the mask off the undemocratic processes underway in the new European Union. Nevertheless, he suggests that Israelis would be wise to understand that close relations w...

Return to the family of man
By Micha Odenheimer  |  03/09/2009
Micha Odenhaimer makes the case that the time has come to develop an interpretation of the Jewish idea of being "chosen" that is not directed only inwards

Stop mending the world
By Amotz Asa-El  |  03/09/2009
Is there a common "Jewish" denominator to be found for people like Marx, Lassalle, Luxemburg, Trotsky, Radek, Kameniev, Zinoviev, Sverdlov, Litvinov, Kaganovitch, Pauker, Berman, Mintz, Rakosi, Blum, Lasky, Cohen-Bendit - Besides the chance fact that all were born Jewish? Yes, says, Aotz Asa-El; they were all...

Can Israel attain national security without the Arabs?
By Nazir Majali  |  03/09/2009
Israeli Arabs can be a major resource for Israel's national security. They can make a huge contribution to reconciliation between Israel and the Arab world, and especially the Palestinian people

Magnanimous and cruel
By Yair Sheleg  |  03/09/2009
Israeli policy of the past few decades has swung between the ideological extremes of doves and hawks. In actual fact, each of the two sides crippled the other, making it impossible for either to ever carry out the full extent of its policy.

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