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Jewish and Israeli Culture
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The Love of Israel: After Post-Zionism
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The Quest for Sanctity
The Dying Journalism and the State of the Nation
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Again in Zion - Ethiopian Jews in Israel
Is the Israeli left alive or dead?
One Million Russian Immigrants
Hebron: Religious passions and conflicting narratives
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Bialik: Revisiting the Big Questions
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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
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At an Israeli Crossroads
Jewish Urban Fantasies
Between Ramot Beit Shemesh and Kabul
Leaving the Cave
The New Community
A Blessed Abundance of Influences
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The Days That Are About To Come
New Readings
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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
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The Soul That Is Inside the Landscape
 

Soul-Searching of Israel's Religious Right and Secular Left

Return of the Jew
By Doron Nesher  |  01/10/2009
Doron Nesher, who once drafted the election platform of the left-wing Mapam party, argues that the biggest accomplishment of the settlement enterprise in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip is that it forced the Israeli left to confront its Jewishness

Left, right, left: On the sanctity of the forgotten “needs of the soul”
By Joshua Sobol  |  01/10/2009
In saying that everything under the sun is evil, and that that which is crooked cannot be made straight, perhaps we should ask once more, even for the thousandth time, why the idea of fixing society ended in such terrible failure and disappointment. Joshua Sobol believes we are on the threshold of economic-historical c...

The disintegration of the social left is an existential danger
By Danny Gutwein  |  01/10/2009
Post-Zionism is the meta-ideology of the privatization process in Israel. It assailed the Zionist idea and the ways to realize it because of Zionism's affinity with the axioms of socialism. Danny Gutwein maintains, that due to its addiction to privatization and the fact that it is no longer an opposition to the ec...

The sin of pride of the left
By Ehud Ben-Ezer  |  01/10/2009
Even before the Six-Day War, Yehoshafat Harkabi wrote that Israelis suffer from a superiority complex that is expressed in two ways. In the national camp, it is expressed in the belief that all by ourselves we will control the entire Middle East. The left believes that we bear sole responsibility for the lack of peace ...

Israel’s leadership will become increasingly religious
By Emunah Elon  |  01/10/2009
Emunah Elon sketches out a scenario, in which the religious public assumes an increasingly larger proportion of the Israeli population, and consequently takes an increasingly larger role in national leadership. It is from this perspective that she opposed the call on Israeli soldiers to refuse to obey orders

The next Sebastia must be a social Sebastia
By Hili Tropper  |  01/10/2009
“The struggle over the country's borders is not over. Still, it is hard to deny the historical turnaround that has taken place. The ideological, educational and especially the practical vacuum has quickly filled with new content.” Hili Tropper takes a look at the future State of Israel, one in which religious Zion...

Autonomy of thought, or thought control?
By Chana Kehat  |  01/10/2009
Chana Kehat analyzes two key precepts of the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) world in the 20th century: Torah study for its own sake, and compliant acceptance of the “voices of the sages”. She traces the process by which these values have seeped into the world of religious Zionism, and asks if the Haredization of the religious...

The historic role of Israel’s Arab citizens
By Nazir Majali  |  01/10/2009
Nazir Majali analyzes the situation of Arab Israelis after the Communist period, and attacks the current Arab leadership, which has never, he feels, grasped the full magnitude of the role it could play here

Our crisis affects all of Israeli society
By Yoel Bin Nun  |  01/10/2009
“Part of the religious-Zionist public has already been swept up into Zionist ultra-Orthodoxy, and I doubt whether this process is reversible. Another, smaller segment is moving toward fanaticism. Yoel Bin-Nun settles accounts with religious Zionism and the secular Israeli elitesYoel Bin-Nun

The left has checked out
By Gila Svirsky  |  01/10/2009
In light of the adoption by widespread segments of Israeli society of the core views of the political left, veteran peace activist Gila Svirsky wonders, why this public feels so disliked, so marginalized, so powerless. The price of estrangement from the collective
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