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Women's Struggle: Victory from the Bottom-Up

Victory from the Bottom-Up
By Odelia Carmi  |  28/10/2010
The cleaning women at Ben Gurion University of the Negev made history: after a years-long struggle they established the first union of cleaning women in Israel. Odelia Carmi, a social worker who was part of the process from the outset, talks about how to motivate a community of disempowered women from various sectors t...

Women: The clearest test of Halakha today
By Tamar Ross  |  28/10/2010
Professor Tamar Ross believes that the solution to the issue of the status of women in the world of halakha (Jewish religious law) entails a massive ideological endeavor because the solution would be a revolution with regard to the foundations on which Jewish life as we know it over for centuries is based. In her opini...

Free yourself from an addiction to compliments
By Naama Cifrony  |  28/10/2010
Through a careful scrutiny of the final verses of Chapter 31 of the Book of Proverbs, Eshet Hayil – A Woman of Valor – traditionally sung at the Sabbath table in honor of the woman of the house, Naama Cifrony takes a closer look at a cultural code that perpetuates the use of compliments as a means of control

Letter from London – Turbulent Times: apocalypse now or a new Vilna?
By Antony Lerman  |  28/10/2010
‘Turbulent Times’ is the title of a new and important book about the British Jewish community today. ‘Turbulent times’ might also describe the prediction for the Jewish future that most in the audience worryingly subscribed to at a debate on whether Jews are growing ashamed to be Jewish that took place Monday. I say ‘m...

Blog - Are Jews safe in Europe?
By Agata Peleszuk  |  28/10/2010
Recently the European Jewish Congress released a warning of a growing danger for Jewish communities in Europe. Frequent reports of anti-Semitic incidents backed up with an increase of immigration to Israel from Western European countries constitute an alarming combination. Is it really getting dangerous for Jews on the...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  28/10/2010
At his last year serving as Germany's a foreign minister, Joschka Fischer initiated a research to explore the involvement of the office at the time of the third Reich in the extermination of Jews. Recently the team of historians who were invited and asked to pursue the truth has published its findings in a book. O...

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