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The New Community

The New Community
By Bambi Sheleg  |  22/07/2010
Today, during the hard times we are experiencing—not knowing when or how they will end—there are certainly things we can do. From beneath the wreckage of entire sectoral dreams, another dream is emerging of a new community made up of people who come from all of Israel’s worlds. A community that sees its responsibility ...

Beyond the Community of Dissent: A Second Generation of Jewish Renewal?
By Shefa Siegel  |  22/07/2010
For Jewish renewal to extend itself generationally, it has to come to grips with the need to do something that in many ways is anathema to its fundamental perspective: It has to define itself, not just against the grain of the establishment, but as a legitimate expression of its own vital message

A missed opportunity
By Efraim Zuroff  |  22/07/2010
The ultra-Orthodox Vaad Hatzala rescue committee, which was established in the United States during World War II in order to save Torah scholars from the clutches of the Nazis, was the first to understand how serious the news coming from occupied Europe was. Although the Vaad tried to organize activities to save all th...

Blog - About Lublin and Vilnius – The Jerusalems of Eastern Europe
By Agata Peleszuk  |  22/07/2010
This week the Tisha B’Av brought a reverie over the collapse of Jerusalem. On this occasion the memory of the falling Temple can be praised in an alternative retrospective – from the angle of other Jerusalems that plunged into the past. Both Jerusalems of Eastern Europe, Lublin and Vilnius, experienced a physical and ...

Letter from London – Kafka’s legacy: description of a struggle
By Antony Lerman  |  22/07/2010
The unseemly squabbling over the Kafka papers held in Zurich and Tel Aviv safe deposit boxes is being widely described as ‘Kafkaesque’. Tracing the origins of the dispute and following the legal complexities is certainly a labyrinthine process. But I always associate Kafka with the surreal and there’s nothing very surr...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  22/07/2010
The last two-three weeks were extremely hot in Berlin. This time I mean it in the simplest way – weather-wise. It got up to 38C and in the center of this urban entity, especially in the direct sun without any options of wind drafts, it felt like much more…a burning city.

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