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The bread of poverty: Israel in the eyes of the bottom decile

The bread of poverty: Israel in the eyes of the bottom decile
By Bambi Sheleg  |  25/03/2010
Poverty has become a widespread phenomenon in Israeli society. According to the figures appearing in the Central Bureau of Statistics' yearbook, more than 20 percent of Israel's citizens are poor. It should be pointed out that 30 percent of those classified as poor are persons who do have a livelihood but who...

It’s the fault of the poor
By Avi Bareli  |  25/03/2010
“Moral stigmatization of the poor has roots neither in traditional Jewish, modern nor Zionist culture. It is a fairly new phenomenon here. Israel of today is a society that still remembers that things can be otherwise.” Avi Bareli writes about the foreign Protestant roots of social Darwinism in Israel

The Art of Minimalism
By Micha Odenheimer  |  25/03/2010
When Ethiopian immigrants in Israel compare their economic situation to that in their country of origin, they usually mention two major advantages to the latter: the independence they enjoyed, and social solidarity, which protected them from poverty. Micha Odenheimer reports on the transition from the third world to th...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  25/03/2010
This week a small group of German-Jews, one German and an Israeli (yours, truly) joined together to found a Jewish salon in Berlin. The Jewish Salons is a social net with branches in several cities as Amsterdam and Vienna, which was launched in Tel-Aviv. For me, the interest in it started as soon as I came across their...

Letter from London - What is a viable community?
By Antony Lerman  |  25/03/2010
Size isn’t everything. Yet our obsession with Jewish demography says otherwise. But Jewish tradition teaches that it is dangerous to count Jews. Assessing Jewish strength by numbers induces depression. The famous American Jewish sociologist Milton Himmelfarb once said that ‘The number of Jews in the world is smaller th...

Blog - The General Weekly Story
By Agata Peleszuk  |  25/03/2010
One of the most influential periodical leading the Polish-Jewish dialogue in Poland is – a skeptic would possibly say paradoxically – a Polish Catholic weekly magazine „Tygodnik Powszechny” (“General Weekly”). To celebrate its 65th anniversary the editorial staff decided to thumb their noses at spiteful critics, who th...

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