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A Coalition of Fantasies

The big orchard and the small orchard
By Dita Gary  |  20/08/2009
Tel Aviv's District 8 is not on the geographical fringe of the city; it is on the fringe socially. Forty-seven percent of its residents earn minimum wage, only 24% complete their matriculation exams for university entrance and just 4.1% go on to academic study, 25% of the residents are under the care of the Minist...

Immigration to Israel, according to Herzl
By Dimitri Slivniak  |  20/08/2009
Personally, Iagree with Herzel on three issues: I am not willing to forgo my native language, even for Hebrew; I support the seperation of religion and state; and I would like to live in a country with the largeast possible territory

"I'm not retarded, just poor"
By Edna Elimelech  |  20/08/2009
In the course of organizing a conference on the subject of poverty that took place last year at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, discussion groups were convened to talk about various aspects of poverty. Edna Elimelech participated in a group that focused on education, and she gave the following speech at the confere...

Conversion in Israel: Zionism's greatest challenge and test
By Binyamin Ish-Shalom  |  20/08/2009
Despite the never-ending public debate on the subject of conversion, very few of Israel's public leaders truly understand that the issue of conversion is the greatest challenge facing Zionism and the state of Israel today - both in terms of demographics and in terms of the justification for Israel's existence...

"This label of Arab Israeli is so humiliating"
By Sayed Kashua  |  20/08/2009
I beg you, for our sake, for your Palestinian brothers on the other side of the Green Line, please calm down, submit, accept what they are giving you and say thank you. Keep quiet, do not demonstrate and do not seek freedom. Sayed Kashua writes a letter to palestinians in the West Bank and in Gaza

Continuing the golden chain - Di goldene Keyt
By Moran Peled  |  20/08/2009
Rabbi Tzvi Kahane, the son of Admor from Zidichov and his wife Leah, told Moran Peled how the marry off their children

The woman is born twice
By Shulamit Rosenberg-Kitzis  |  20/08/2009
Shulamit Rosenberg-Kitzis describes her journey to self-awareness, at the end of which she can no longer enjoy the innocence of the religious world, but nonetheless: "I will never be completely nonreligious, nor would I want to be."

The tragedy of the knitted skullcaps
By Yair Sheleg  |  20/08/2009
Yair Sheleg examines the different spiritual and ideological structures of religious Zionism and Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) nationalism, and the tragedy of the sector which, more than any other group, championed the values of unity and national interests, and today endangers them.

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