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Is the Israeli left alive or dead?

Is the Israeli left alive or dead?
By Bambi Sheleg  |  25/02/2010
How can one explain the Israeli left's decline? And will it ever be able to spring to life once more?

Abdicating National Responsibility
By Nir Kedar  |  25/02/2010
The deterioration of the Social-Democratic movement in Israel, from a national movement to the "Left," is largely a result of the labor movement's ceasing to view itself as bearing responsibility for the entire society. Nir Kedar on the victory of the "ascetic" approach over the "pioneerin...

On the sanctity of the forgotten “needs of the spirit”
By Yehoshua Sobol  |  25/02/2010
With the growing sense that Ecclesiastes was right when he said that everything under the sun is evil, and that the crooked cannot be made straight, it is time, perhaps for the thousandth time, to ask what caused the concept of mending society to culminate in such abject failure and disappointment. Yehoshua Sobol beli...

“Neither happy, nor upset” – blog
By Agata Peleszuk  |  25/02/2010
Presidential elections in Ukraine attracted the international attention in regard to readiness for change. Eventually a majority of Ukrainians chose Viktor Yanukovych who supports closer ties with Russia and economic conservatism. While citizens craving for liberal democracy tended to support Yulia Tymoschenko, most of...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  25/02/2010
"Jud Suess" was for Joseph Goebbels the artistic fig leaf he needed in order to have his propaganda perceived as art at its highest level. Goebbels indeed achieved the highest levels of deception by manipulation of word and form known at his time. Some say until today, not without appreciation to his talents…...

A Letter from London - All power to the creatives
By Antony Lerman  |  25/02/2010
The Jewish Museum of London will reopen next month, dramatically enlarged and redesigned, after a £10 million transformation. Wags might wonder if the increased space was intended as the last resting place of British Jewry’s creaking and fossilised central communal institutions. The Museum certainly seems to represent ...

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