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Looking after One's Own Kind: The Image of Israel's Elite

Looking after One's Own Kind: The Image of Israel's Elite
By Bambi Sheleg  |  26/08/2010
Numerous interim conclusions emerge from "Eretz Acheret's" travels through Israeli society. One of the main conclusions of this journey is that Israeli society is sick, from the top down. Stated otherwise, large portions of the public, known in the past as "the echelon that serves its country,"...

Abandonment and desertion
By Meni Mautner  |  26/08/2010
Was the role of nation building supplanted too quickly by the striving of individuals for personal advancement? Did Israel’s Ashkenazim too quickly turn their energies away from collective goals, such as immigration absorption and economic equality, and channel them to individual ambition? And most importantly: Who gai...

The Deceptiveness of the Elite Groups' Discourse
By Danny Gutwein  |  26/08/2010
By creating the optical illusion of democratic practice, the elites' discourse is serving to soften the harsh distributional repercussions of Israel's privatization regime. The imaginary struggle between the "old elites" and the "new elites" is drawing the public's attention away from...

Encounter of Cultures in Łódź
By Agata Peleszuk  |  26/08/2010
A Polish city of Łódź is well-known for its multicultural heritage. During centuries there used to live side by side Poles, Germans, Jews and Russians. This icon-city went through all model historical experiences of the Polish statehood – it lost independency, flourished as an industrial center, collapsed during the wa...

Letter from London – Havdalah holidays remembered
By Antony Lerman  |  26/08/2010
One of my most lasting childhood summer holiday memories is of Mrs Cohen, the wife of the proprietor of the little kosher hotel we stayed at a few times in the early 1950s in Torquay on the English Riviera, singing ‘Eliyahu hanavi’ in a shrill soprano at the weekly havdalah ceremony. And I can still remember the sensat...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  26/08/2010
I HATE X. maybe I don't hate them, ok? maybe I just dislike them, but anyway – they disguise me. If they would only be X at the privacy of their home, I wouldn't mind them so much. I understand that X should have equal rights in this country as all other human beings (yes, I've learned to accept that the...

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