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Criticism in an Age of Delegitimization

Why I decided to return to Zionism
By Boaz Neumann  |  04/11/2010
Dr. Boaz Neumann, a lecturer in German at Tel Aviv University, conducted his own research of the pioneer movement. The results motivated him to abandon his post-Zionist views and to stop incessantly and mercilessly criticizing the Jewish state

On the Jewish State As an Alien State
By Uriel Abulof  |  04/11/2010
For the first anti-Zionists, the shtetl, the Jewish town in Eastern Europe, was a sort of lost homeland that they sought to heal for the sake of their nation and for their own sake. Despite their negation of Zionism, they remained committed to the Jewish people’s physical survival and spiritual mission. Uriel Abulof wo...

Who Is Making Trouble for Universalism Again?
By Laurent Cohen  |  04/11/2010
Paul of Tarsus is revived to a renewed, surprising and worry-inducing life in the books of some of the Europe's contemporary active philosophers. Laurent Cohen looks into the ideas of the neo-Paulists of today

Letter from London – The tragic invisibility of women
By Antony Lerman  |  04/11/2010
What’s our problem with women? We throw every cliché at them to make it look as if they’re the centre of the Jewish universe. Women run the household. ‘Man is not even called man until he is united with woman’, says the Zohar. Jewish women are ‘Queens of the Sabbath’

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  04/11/2010
I'll start with a slightly embarrassing confession – since I remember and until today, the sounds and words of Ha'Tikvah can bring tears to my eyes, and if something lifts up my mood within seconds, it's the tune and the mantra of Hava Nagilah

The 375th anniversary – Blog
By Agata Peleszuk  |  04/11/2010
The Orthodox Ashkenazi community of Amsterdam celebrates next week its 375th anniversary. The jubilee celebrations, honored also by the Dutch Queen Beatrix, take place in the shadow of a growing anti-Semitism and struggle with multiculturalism

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