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A Coalition of Fantasies
Why Dialogue
Report: The ideological threat to the Jewish State
Mastering Our Own Fate
The Ability to Change
Fear of Normality
The Quest for Israeli & Jewish Identity
Soul-Searching of Israel's Religious Right and Secular Left
A Letter to Europe
Jewish and Israeli Culture
Our Weddings as an Identity Card
Are we assimilating?
The Love of Israel: After Post-Zionism
identities in transition: Jews and Israelisin the Age of Doubt
The Quest for Sanctity
The Dying Journalism and the State of the Nation
People of the Story
Gaining clarity: after postmodernism
Giyur: Zionism's Major Challenge and Test
Who has the Rights to Public Property?
What strengthens us and what weakens us
The Torah and Life: What We Need to Learn Now
Everything Can Be Measured: On the Death of Things Beyond Measure
Crisis, Disintegration, and Chance for Renewal
Say Goodbye to Shabbat – Our Enslavement to Culture 24/7
The great void: On the absence of European Jews from the life of the Jewish people and European culture
Jews and Arabs: In view of the vision documents by Israel’s Arabs
Again in Zion - Ethiopian Jews in Israel
Is the Israeli left alive or dead?
One Million Russian Immigrants
Hebron: Religious passions and conflicting narratives
What kind of rabbinate do we need? The Torah world and the challenge of reality
The bread of poverty: Israel in the eyes of the bottom decile
The cost of privatization: On false economic messianism
Bialik: Revisiting the Big Questions
Unconstitutional: The establishment of a private prison in Israel
Love of Israel: After post-Zionism
The Chief Rabbinate versus the Jewish People
A letter to the Palestinians
Thirst: On the New Spirituality
Not submissive: On the women’s struggle in Israel
The full cart: Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the price of success
A state in their image: Finance ministry officials are reshaping Israel’s scale of values
Soul searching – the soul and its search: How will the internal decisions of the Religious Zionist movement impact the future of Israeli society?
An experiment that failed and succeeded
At an Israeli Crossroads
Jewish Urban Fantasies
Between Ramot Beit Shemesh and Kabul
Leaving the Cave
The New Community
A Blessed Abundance of Influences
A "Me-First" Mentality: A Portrait of Israel's Elite
The Days That Are About To Come
New Readings
Looking after One's Own Kind: The Image of Israel's Elite
The Others
No sleep for Israel
The Repression of Our Awareness
The body: Between policing and freedom
We Need New Canonical Texts
Israeli Comments
The Old Myth Lives On
Kafka: To Whom Does This Legacy Belong?
Women's Struggle: Victory from the Bottom-Up
Criticism in an Age of Delegitimization
What about collective rights?
The Jewish Study Ethic in Crisis
Indigenous Readers
The real estate bubble and those outside of it
To Find Grace Everywhere
Lands End: The Struggle Over The Land Has Gone To Court
Cold Days in Europe
To Learn from the Scholars of the Past
Modern Spirituality
The Immeasurability of the Human Soul
Jewish Women Writers
The Body & the Image
Barefoot Reading
Has the United States Anything To Offer Egypt?
A School for Ordinary Jews
Their Tragedy, and Ours
Longing and Love
Israeli Arabs Speak
The Almost Obsessive Presence of the Letter
Emotional renewal
The Soul That Is Inside the Landscape
 

Fear of Normality

Sad Jewish Eyes
By Konstanty Gebert  |  17/09/2009
The views of Konstanty Gebert , who wrote articles in communist Poland under an underground pseudonym involving a dual identity, are intertwined with the complex and chimerical relations between Poles, Jews and Israelis. A portrait of a Jew as an eternal critic and intermediary



A new Russian-Jewish utopia is not on the horizon
By Leonid Kacis  |  17/09/2009
Leonic Kacis, a lecturer in Judaism and Russian literature in the Jewish University of Moscow describes the increasing weakening of Russian-Jewish identity among the Russian-speaking diaspora. He suggests that if the Israeli elites were to put some thought into the subject of how to provide Diaspora Jewry with new opti...

Between two versions of universality
By Lev Anninski  |  17/09/2009
Lev Anninski, a researcher and critic of Russian cinema compares the self-perception of Jews and Russians and arrives at the surprising conclusion that the similarities outnumber the differences. “The intuitive feeling of both nations is a feeling of condemnation / abandonment / Divine rejection, a feeling that needs c...

A new Jerusalem in a non-messianic age
By Agnes Heller  |  17/09/2009
Agnes Heller, a Jewish philosopher from Hungary, compares herself to Philo, a Jewish philosopher who lived in Egypt in the first century CE. “The Jewish people is unlike other nations, simply because its sons and daughters are tied together by a spiritual bond. Remove the spiritual bond and the Jewish people becomes a ...

The Finishing Touch
By Assaf Inbari  |  17/09/2009
Deciding that a project is complete is a very important creative decision, one from which there is no turning back. That’s it, it’s out of your hands: That’s the book you wrote, and you aren’t going to change a single word any more. That’s the song you recorded, and you aren’t going to change a single note. To complete...

Fear of Normality
By Nitzan Horowitz  |  17/09/2009
Seemingly, nothing could be more normal for a Jewish liberal living in a prosperous suburb of Vancouver or Boston than to embrace Israeli normality, which after all only wants for itself the same things that those Boston or Vancouver Jews seek for themselves in their private lives. But very soon, it becomes apparent th...

Zionism, Ethics and the New Birth of Freedom: Louis Brandies, Then and Now
By Yehudah Mirsky  |  17/09/2009
“To be good Americans we must better Jews, and to be better Jews we must become Zionists.” – Louis Brandeis

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