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A Letter to Europe

Let us not despair of Europe, let us not despair of ourselves
By Daniel Epstein  |  08/10/2009
Through an analysis of the thought of Czech philosopher Jan Patocka, who was tortured to death by the Communist government for signing Charter 77, Daniel Epstein reveals the reasons for Europe’s decline. “Europe as Europe was born out of its interest in dealing with the soul. It died when it allowed this interest to be...

Au revoir, Europe
By Dan Be’eri  |  08/10/2009
Europe is dying. Dan Be’eri writes a lamentation on the demise of the civilization in which he and many other Israelis were raised. The state of the Continent today, says Be’eri, resembles that of the Roman Empire in the year 450, on the eve of the barbarian invasion

A school of thought of its own
By Laurent Cohen  |  08/10/2009
The correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem survived the horrors of the Nazi regime, although Benjamin himself did not live to see the day after. This book of letters paints a portrait in real time of an enlightened Europe sinking into the depths of darkness, and the terror and fear of the Jewish peo...

Reopen the files
By Fania Oz-Salzberg  |  08/10/2009
Fania Oz-Salzberger argues that it is too early in the old-new relationship to consider Israeli membership in the European Union

A different Germany
By Maoz Azaryahu  |  08/10/2009
Maoz Azaryahu on what stands between Germany and the purging of its past: the State of Israel

Protocols of the revisionists
By Laurent Cohen  |  08/10/2009
Even before the Six-Day War, there was an organic link between Holocaust denial and the negation of Israel’s legitimacy. Be it a function of Nazi or anarchist ideology, European revisionism has a single goal: undermining the ethical and historical right of the State of Israel to exist. Laurent Cohen on the most importa...

A Tale of Two Cities
By Dina Markon  |  08/10/2009
Dina Markon experienced Shabbat hundreds of times in Jerusalem until she decided to replace it with the Shabbat of Tel Aviv.

Longing for the extinct Jew
By Vered Zaykovsky  |  08/10/2009
After years of study, Moni Ovadia, a star of the Italian theater, found that “Yiddishkeit” is the most profound ethical component of Western consciousness, and he has therefore set out to revive it. Yiddish culture, says Ovadia, makes important statements on humane, spiritual and cultural issues. Vered Zaykovsky met hi...

Because blood is the soul
By Yoram Meltzer  |  08/10/2009
The attempt to cleanse Europe of the Jews is an attempt to purify Europe’s blood of the foreign element

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