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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
 

The Love of Israel: After Post-Zionism

Love of Israel: After post-Zionism
By Bambi Sheleg  |  05/11/2009
In these days of scathing internal and external criticism, it sometimes seems that the goal of the critics is not to repair society, but to bury it. We are seeing an endless series of attacks coming from postmodernists and post-Zionists, both in Israel and abroad.


Three Intellectuals and a People
By Laurent Cohen  |  05/11/2009
Despite the diametric differences between Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, and Simone Weil, there is something they have in common: their Jewish identity. Each was confronted by the Jewish issue at an early stage in their lives, and they had to decide about the meaning of their belonging to the Jewish people, the price ...

A “Connected Critic”
By Micha Odenheimer  |  05/11/2009
Michael Walzer, a political theorist and philosopher at Princeton University, remains passionately involved in trying to clarify ethical imperatives in global crisis situations. Since 1957, Walzer has been involved in Israel personally, politically, and intellectually. Micha Odenheimer speaks with an individual who has...

In praise of Brenner
By Be’eri Zimmerman  |  08/11/2009
We must not generalize and slander all Jews or all rabbis. Criticism that contains an element of smugness and exultation, self-hatred and an absence of national-individual soul-searching is forbidden criticism. That which Brenner may say, thanks to his self-torment and the sincerity of his reproof, is forbidden to tho...

Contradictors versus Constructivists:Re-visiting an Old Debate
By Rotem Prager-Wagner  |  08/11/2009
Prof. Menachem Brinker believes that the secular Zionist journey began with the renaissance writers and thinkers’ love for the real Jew, and resistance to the values of the Diaspora Jews who viewed worldly, practical and civil life with contempt. Rotem Prager-Wagner heard his ideas on the contemporariness of Bialik, Be...

A story of love and belonging
By Aharon Rose  |  08/11/2009
The concept of Ahavat Yisrael – the love for one’s fellow Jew – is inseparably bound up in the history of Hassidic thought, an inseparable part of how it dealt with its heritage and its internal and external struggles. Aharon Rose sets out on a journey in wake of the people that developed the “inner Jewish aspect”...

The Great Agent of Western Colonialism
By Noam Avidan-Sela is an art critic  |  05/11/2009
Israeli protest-art, even if responding to the immediate environment in which it was created, looks only towards Western art, and not towards dialogue with the public in which it operates. It does not converse with the place where it was created, and is an arch-enemy of the local national-social interests, whether Arab...

I have quieted my soul
By Naama Cifrony  |  05/11/2009
In order to study Tai Chi, we had to emigrate, in some sense, to the Taoist culture and to internalize the way Chinese medicine perceives the body. Judaism does not offer us an accessible selection of approaches to movement and meditation. However, has Jewish culture left us with linguistic evidence of meditative exper...

Between Love and Criticism
By Shmuel Erlich  |  05/11/2009
A proper degree of self-love is an important condition for inner balance and mental health, self-love accompanied by a sense of assured and continuing existence, and a deep connection to precious ideals and values without which it would be difficult to exist. Normal self-love allows the individual to accept criticism a...

"We have decided to grant you the award, in spite of it all"
By Eyal Halfon  |  08/11/2009
It began when I was studying a page of Gemara that most of you probably know, and which isn't really coincidental. "The rabbis taught: He who cheats a stranger transgresses three negative commandments, and he who oppresses him transgresses two" ( Baba Metzia tract, right after the story of Achnai's ...
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