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A School for Ordinary Jews

A School for Ordinary Jews
By Rotem Prager-Wagner  |  17/02/2011
Israeli secularism, as it is reflected in the country’s school system (and not just there) – has abandoned its culture. A tendency to forget – to the point of erasure – is prevalent not just with regard to classic Hebrew literature, but also with regard to that literature’s precursors and founders. Rotem Prager-Wagner ...

More than one way to be religious
By Efrat Shapira Rosenberg  |  17/02/2011
The desire for open, in-depth and challenging religious education is one of the main drivers moving observant families towards joint religious-secular schools. Efrat Shapira-Rosenberg reveals the dreams, dilemmas and difficulties that religious parents who choose to send their children to these schools encounter

Letter from London – A sensitive television drama on the Israel-Palestine conflict
By Antony Lerman  |  17/02/2011
British television viewers are currently being treated to a 4-part dramatised lesson in the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict. And so far, there has been virtually none of the knee-jerk complaints of anti-Israeli and even anti-Jewish bias usually levelled at such programmes by over-sensitive elements in the Jewi...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  17/02/2011
Last week, 66 years ago, Dresden was bombed by the allied forces. Last week, just a few days ago, memorial-demonstrations were held in Dresden, as for every year in the last few years. The biggest event of all was in 2005 as thousands over thousands of Neo-Nazis and supporters came to Dresden to march in memory of 60 y...

Israel and Spain celebrate this year the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations - Blog
By Agata Peleszuk  |  17/02/2011
Israel and Spain celebrate this year the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations. During the quarter of century both states went through a bumpy road. Today Spain is on the one hand an important European partner of Israel, on the other hand though a state where anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli sentiments often reach an a...

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