Erez Acheret

Hungary: Jewish delegation visits the European Parliament ...

Netherlands: Dutch Jewish television to launch a new adventure program...

Poland: Festival of alternative Jewish culture to open in Poznan...

Germany: Jewish Central Council in Berlin celebrates 60th anniversary ...

Switzerland : Kafka’s manuscripts to come out public...

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.

the L.A. Pincus Fund for Jewish Education in the Diaspora

A Blessed Abundance of Influences
By: Oded Ezer | 29/07/2010
European modernism's monopoly in Israeli design has finally been broken. Graphic designer and typographer Oded Ezer takes a close look at the spectrum of styles that have slowly filtered through into the new visual language in Israel: Jewish typography, geometric patterns, Muslim calligraphy, Art Nouveau and Japanese Minimalism

An uneasy feeling
By Philip Leider | 29/07/2010
Mulling over the issue of "place" is a very Israeli phenomenon. Philip Leider looks at the art of Eli Shvadron

Rediscovering the History of Jewish Barcelona – Blog
By Agata Peleszuk | 29/07/2010
The Barcelona Chabad House celebrated the opening of a new meeting point for all those who seek the Jewish character in the city. The enthusiasm for another such initiative illustrates that the Jewish revival in Barcelona is not a myth. Behind the commercial façade rests a complex historical narrative and the community...

Letter from London – Dedication, dovishness and disquiet among British Jews
By Antony Lerman | 29/07/2010
I sense that one of the key things we who share this space on www.acheret.co.il have in common is a deep distaste for the glib manner in which so many Jewish Diaspora leaders and Israeli politicians use the phrase ‘Israel-Diaspora relations’

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein | 29/07/2010
Arrogance and ignorance are a strong duo, which often go together well – the arrogance prevents ignorant people from understanding and seeing beyond their limits, the ignorance reassures them that within their limits lays the world, the truth or the solution.