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Indigenous Readers
By Eretz Acheret  |  25/11/2010
Cultural renewal is a process that involves an inherent contradiction. Culture strives to preserve itself. In a certain sense, one might even say that culture endeavors to stagnate. The reason is that the guardians of culture know full well that new thoughts, new human efforts can gain a foothold only if some of the ol...

Given to Be Expounded
By Be’eri Zimmerman  |  25/11/2010
The Torah (that is, the historical, halakhic, and aggadic literature of the Jews, headed by the Humash [Pentateuch]) is the "Pattern." Following the Pattern is a condition for Jewish existence, for Jewish creativity, for Jewish identity. Barry Zimmerman describes the nature of his Torah study, as a person who...

After the Alienation, After the Awe
By Hava Pinchas-Cohen  |  25/11/2010
Hava Pinchas-Cohen believes that Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz is responsible for the greatest cultural revolution in modern history. Like Rabbi Yehuda Hanasi (Judah the Prince), who edited the Mishnah in a period of crisis and Haim Nahman Bialik who edited legends of the Talmud and Midrash, Steinsaltz’ commentary on the Mishn...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  25/11/2010
Besides being Computer scientists, technology innovators and entrepreneurs, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, Lawrence "Larry" Page & Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin, the founders of "Facebook" and "Google", share more then their financial success thanks to the cyber space – they are all Jewish. Even t...

Letter from London – It’s official: European Jewry is ‘confident, vibrant and growing’
By Antony Lerman  |  25/11/2010
It’s rare to come across research results which have the power instantly to transform the way we look at the state of Jewish life in Europe. Yet this is precisely what the recently published 2010 Survey of New Jewish Initiatives in Europe delivers, unreservedly concluding that European Jewry is ‘confident, vibrant and ...

Reconciliation? – Blog
By Agata Peleszuk  |  25/11/2010
Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation Foundation is a German institution established to coordinate the erection of a museum for expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe after the Second World War. This week 15 representatives of various circles – among them Polish researchers and the head of the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt ...

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