Eretz Acheret is an Israeli NGO comprised of people from different sectors of society with a broad range of backgrounds and personal beliefs. The goal of this website is to provide Israeli and Diaspora Jews with a platform for open discourse and dialogue on all facets of the Israel-Diaspora relationship, as well as the opportunity to express their identity through the written word.
 
One Million Russian Immigrants
By: Bambi Sheleg  |  04/03/2010
The million people from the CIS who moved to Israel following the collapse of the communist empire led Israeli society to confront – with vigor – the need to grapple with the question of its identity and values. These immigrants, who came here under the Law of Return, over many years constituted a kind of reservoir of hope and vitality for the Jewish people. The hope of releasing them from the tyranny of communist rule fed a dream shared by the Jews of the Diaspora and the Israeli Jews, a dream for which they waged a determined struggle in order that it come to pass.
It is not Israel that “absorbed” me; It was I who absorbed and took it into myself
By Maya Kaganskaya  |  04/03/2010
“Denial of truth for the sake of an ideological belief – that was my first lesson and the blow that I was dealt already in my first contacts with Hebrew speakers of the same class. I have internalized the message, but I will never recover from the blow.” Maya Kaganskaya analyzes the nature of the abyss that divides vet...
The frictions in Israeli society are different today
By Avi Pikar  |  04/03/2010
The mass immigration to Israel from the former Soviet Union has realigned Israeli society. The large number of immigrants has brought about far-reaching demographic and cultural changes. Avi Pikar analyzes the impact of this massive immigration on Israel's development towns
New European Friends – Blog
By Agata Peleszuk  |  04/03/2010
Soon this year Bulgaria and Poland will mark the 20th anniversary of reestablishing diplomatic relations with Israel. Later on the same occasion will occur in Lithuania, Czech Republic and Slovakia. The analysis of two decades of Israeli-Eastern European ties results in seeing a positive picture of transformed democrac...
Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  04/03/2010
Hannah Arndt once wrote "No one has the right to obey" and by that underlined the duty of personal responsibility over the comfort of following passively, supposedly without making decisions. I was thinking of that sentence as I was watching "Judgment at Nuremberg" on Youtube last week.
A Letter from London - The trahison of the polemicists
By Antony Lerman  |  04/03/2010
Once upon a time we all knew what antisemitism was, and it wasn’t a fairy story. When Holocaust denial appeared no serious analyst mistook it for genuine historical revisionism. After 1989 and the collapse of Communism, no one could fail to see that the far-right nationalist groups, which exploited the new democratic p...
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