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The Ability to Change

Hillel the Elder meets Ahad Ha'am
By Micha Goodman  |  27/08/2009
Israeli society is locked into a degenerative dichotomy between the “religious” and the “secular.” The need for a new type of beit midrash is as imperative for secular Israelis as it is for the religious. Micha Goodman describes the close connection that exists between those who come from the religious world and wish t...

The ability to change
By Moshe Shner  |  27/08/2009
Moshe Shner, a first generation Israeli and the son of Holocaust survivors, writes on the Diaspora and the formation of the Israeli identity as a work-in-progress

Do you know where you're headed?
By Orit San-Gupta  |  27/08/2009
To deeply encounter other cultures, and to draw lessons from them, is not assimilation. Quite the opposite. The encounter between the individual and the other, and the attempt to understand it, generates a need in the individual to understand oneself and one's roots. Orit Teitler Sen-Gupta, a senior yoga instructo...

Te`ezaza Sanbat
By Yaakov Gonchel  |  27/08/2009
The ancient book that Yaakov Gonchel received from his grandfather, the Te'ezaza Snabat - the commandment of the Sabbath - opend a window onto the lives of his ascetic partriarchal line, and onto the ancient traditional lifestyles of the Ethiopian Jewish community. Their way of life, as prescribed by the text, cra...

Don't be afraid of us. On the inside we "Russians" are white and furry
By Dan Shapira  |  27/08/2009
Who are the Jews who came to Israel from amidst the ruins of the former Soviet Union? Dan Shapira unfolds their history in the past century according to the regions from which they came, and explains the differences between them and veteran Israelis regarding the Holocaust, non-Jews, the army, and terror. Soviet Jewry:...

The only game in town
By Hillel Halkin  |  27/08/2009
On the whole, though Zionism was wrong in some of its prognostications, it was right about thw main point: In the modern world, only a sovereighn Jewish nation in control of all of its own cultural and educational institutions can guarantee that, at the end of the day, a Jewish society will absorb other rather than be ...

Paying the price: Attenuation of attachments to land and Jewish tradition on Israel's left
By Eliezer Ya'ari  |  27/08/2009
Eliezer Yaari assesses the price paid by Israeli society, including its left wing, for the inability to distinguish between attachment and entitlement, and to retain the attachment

Rabbi in a forgotten town
By Tamar Gingihashvili  |  27/08/2009
Ben-Zion Michaelshvili, head of the kollel in Akko (Acre), Israel, was only 42 when he died of cardiac arrest. Thus ended the life of this most modest of men, who devoted all his waking hours to his hard-working flock, a patchwork of Jews from all the diasporas. Michaelshvili's heart could not withstand the murder...

We demand to be full partners in fashioning the public, cultural, and political spheres
By Amal Jamal  |  27/08/2009
There can be no more oppressive feeling than living in a social context in which your voice is not effective, and in which your word is either not heard or not worth the same as that of others.

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