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No sleep for Israel

No sleep for Israel
By Susanna Huller  |  12/09/2010
We cannot afford to sleep. Psychoanalysis had to change in wake of the Holocaust. The view of the world with a father figure at is center as a major force failed. Susanna Huller comments on the emotional and cultural substructure of anti-Semitism as it was then and is now

Synagogue of Three Thousand Seats, Empty
By Rivka Rozner  |  12/09/2010
In the attempt to strengthen the connection of young Israelis to Jewish culture, every year some sixty students are sent abroad to Jewish communities that are in a state of decay, in order to document the Jewish life in various parts of the world at the dawning of their demise. Encounters of the deteriorating kind

Returning to the Forgotten Horizon
By Laurent Cohen  |  12/09/2010
According to Benny Lévy, who grew up on a political ideology that saw itself as European, the foundations of the Jewish state display a failure to remember its “Eastern and messianic” – that is, its Hebrew – past. Laurent Cohen provides us with the profile of a philosopher who wandered from the French Maoist world, thr...

Europe is absent
By Agata Pelezsuk  |  12/09/2010
In spite of a bilateral skepticism a new round of peace talks was launched after two years of stagnation. While Abbas, Netanyahu, Mubarak and King Abdullah were breaking the long-lasting silence in Washington, the EU Foreign Policy representative Catherine Ashton held her visit to China. Taking aside the importance of ...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  12/09/2010
A famous joke tells the story of an ambitious publisher who had a wish to produce a book about elephants, that would be published all over the world at the same time. Since it was very important for him that everywhere on the globe the book would be well sold and widely spread he decided to adjust the book's title...

Letter from London – It’s tolerance we need, not empathy
By Antony Lerman  |  12/09/2010
In parts of London devout, niqab-wearing Muslim women walk the same streets as devout sheitel-wearing Jewish women. Just as devout shtremel-wearing Jewish men frequent the same shops as devout thawb-wearing Muslim men. This may represent the outer-fringe of British multiculturalism—a way of managing difference in socie...

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