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Wake-up Call for the National-Religious Population
By Chen Golan  |  27/11/2012
The social protest is the first expression of the coming together of a new Israeli public. Chen Golan, a member of Kibbutz Naaran in the Jordan Valley and a member of the Graduates of Machanot Ha-Olim movement, calls on the religious population to join this most important national struggle.

From Bitter Desperation to Mobilized Desperation
By Ronit Levi  |  27/11/2012
Encapsulated within the protest is the potential to renew values. The protest is the embodied desire to reassert the equality of human beings as a foundation of our lives, and to take responsibility for ourselves and our society – its image and its values. Ronit Levi, a member of Kibbutz Naaran and of the Graduates of ...

The Death of “Torah ve-Avodah”
By Bambi Sheleg  |  27/11/2012
The religious Zionist camp is not participating in the social protests, and ignoring the people involved and the topics raised. Bambi Sheleg writes about the processes that brought about this situation and questions whether a change in this trend is likely.

In Defense of Normaley
By Bezalel Cohen  |  29/08/2012
Bezalel Cohen, a graduate of the Ponevezh Yeshiva, traveled to the U.S. to learn firsthand about haredi (ultra-Orthodox) life in America. The journey strengthened his belief in the ability to combine a full haredi lifestyle with intellectual openness and involvement in all spheres of life

Five brothers set out on a journey
By Eyal Nave  |  14/02/2012
As the Western core disappears, the United States is becoming an anti-multicultural mosaic, a fact that does not sit with the unique identity of the Jews, since right now Jews are part of the Western core. On the fading of Jewish identity against the backdrop of fading Western identity

Outburst
By Bambi Sheleg  |  27/09/2011
The demonstrations on our streets during the summer are testament to the existence of a new group forming in our midst, a public that is not defined by the societal parameters that molded us until now. This new public does not think in terms of social sectors, and it is detached from the current political system. How d...

Speech at the “400,000 Protest” on Saturday night
By Bambi Sheleg  |  06/09/2011
Good evening everyone.

The Jewish State was founded on a dream, an ancient dream of the Jewish people to return to the land of its ancestors and to reclaim autonomy that was destroyed two thousand years ago. But this ancient dream contains another component that is no less important: to establish a society that is ...

The Soul That Is Inside the Landscape
By Zvi Lachman  |  23/05/2011
While studying aerial photos during one of his periods of reserve duty with the Israel Defense Forces in the desert, Michael Kovner realized that it is possible to use actual landscapes in order to paint abstractly. Sculptor Zvi Lachman discusses with Kovner the relationship between internal and external landscapes

The Democratic Individual versus the Jewish Individual
By Rony Klein  |  16/05/2011
The major enigma of the 20th century – How did a democratic state enable the rise of the Nazi individual? – has not yet been solved. The French-Jewish philosopher Shmuel Trigano proposes that we return to the ideology of the Enlightenment and that we examine its fundamental assumptions.

The Love Affair between Commerce and Art
By Rodi Bineth  |  01/05/2011
With the prices of works of contemporary art increasing at an unprecedented rate and with multiculturalism undermining the foundations of the traditional criteria for assessing quality, the value of an artistic creation is measured today primarily by the price that can be obtained for it in the marketplace

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