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The Jewish Study Ethic in Crisis

The Jewish Study Ethic in Crisis
By Eretz Acheret  |  18/11/2010
Thousands of raging students took to the streets about two weeks ago to protest the government’s intention of passing a law ensuring continued payment of income supplements to yeshiva students for married men

The In-Depth Study Trap
By Shlomo Tikochinski  |  18/11/2010
The study method developed by Rabbi Haim of Brisk in the 19th century requires the learned student of Torah to delve deeply into particular Talmud tractates. This method, which is naturally slow, comes at the expense of broad and comprehensive learning of the entire Talmud, and is suitable only for a select few. Althou...

The Internal Collapse of the Academic Community in Israel
By Aryeh Dayan  |  18/11/2010
In 1983, external lecturers accounted for ten percent of the teaching staff in universities in Israel. Today that figure is 50 percent. A huge academic proletariat is concentrated in Israeli universities; the members of this proletariat provide about half the teaching hours offered by the universities and do so without...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  18/11/2010
An ex of mine, a German, was very invested in Kabbalah. He couldn't read Hebrew, so he would just look at the letters on the relevant pages before each meeting of the Kabbalah group in Berlin. Someone at the center told him it's enough – the intention

Letter from London – Against the uniqueness of antisemitism
By Antony Lerman  |  18/11/2010
The day more than 50,000 university students and lecturers were protesting deep cuts in higher education and a huge hike in tuition fees was perhaps not the best moment to be launching the new Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck College University of London. But Professor David Feldman, recently a...

To Use The Correct Words – Blog
By Agata Peleszuk  |  18/11/2010
“Polish concentration camps” is a term against which Polish people oppose all over the world. Often used by many journalists and the leading media figures, it triggers off the international debate on a historical correctness of the media reports. The last petition, filed by the Polish minority in the United States agai...

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