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Are we assimilating?

Voting with Their Feet
By Moran Peled  |  29/10/2009
Moran Peled set out on a journey in the tracks of the waning numbers of Jews in the large Diaspora communities: the United States, France, Brazil, Argentina. Peled returned with the conclusion of the importance of formulating a new and consensual definition of who is a Jew and what is assimilation

"It all depends on the inner content of Israel"
By Hava Pinchas-Cohen  |  29/10/2009
Hava Pinchas-Cohen interviewed Sergio DellaPergola, the leading specialist in the demography Jewish people, about numbers and the trends these indicate. "In the future, most Jews will live in Israel. This process, however, does not derive from Israel's draw or attraction but from the weakening of Diaspora Jew...

Set Apart
By Maya Siminowitz  |  29/10/2009
I confess, with no small amount of embarrassment, that "The calvary of my people gave my life a prestige and a beauty that I would have been unable to discover in its own unfolding […] I inherited a suffering to which I had not been subjected […] To be Jewish was enough to escape the anonymity of an identity indis...

The Way Back
By Tehila Lieberman  |  29/10/2009
Flying to New York, I feel like a time traveler. I look around at the other passengers, going or returning for pleasure, perhaps a few for business. We are fellow travelers in body only. Tehila Lieberman tells about her way back to Israel

Outside the Protected Zone
By Vered Zaikovski  |  29/10/2009
Vered Zaikovski pursues the identity of the children of Jewish-Christian intermarriages in Italy. Three stories about individuals who live in an environment with a limited Jewish influence.

Thank God, We’re Assimilated
By Yehoshua Sobol  |  29/10/2009
Without absorption and assimilation, in the positive, erotic sense of the words, culture and creativity cannot truly exist. Only those who are unsure of their identity and the power of their culture fear assimilation and cultivate a defeatist posture of isolationism. Yehoshua Sobol attacks the negative meaning of the c...

An Important and Precious Announcement
By Nir Manusi  |  29/10/2009
Why should we cry over the process, that seems so natural, of leaving the bounds of the traditional nationality? Why subordinate to some archaic and artificial ideology the desire to fully realize one's potential or romantic feelings? Nir Manusi thinks that the Jewish people's separatism can be justified only...

Of Assimilation and Globalization
By Yossi Zuria  |  29/10/2009
The solution to the problem of assimilation in our time is an intellectual and religious revolution on the scale of the transformation wrought by the rabbinic sages. Such a revolution would restore Judaism to center stage as a cultural leader with a stirring message for the world. The goal of this revolution is not to ...

In wake of Hitler’s hidden face
By Laurent Cohen  |  29/10/2009
Léon Poliakov’s oeuvre, which can be viewed as a major milestone in modern historiography, poses penetrating philosophical questions regarding the status of humanity within the tempest of modernism, the enormous, hypnotic power achieved by Hitler and Stalin, ideology during the period of the “destruction of the other” ...

The Resurrection of Azarel
By Janos Kobanyai  |  29/10/2009
Who was Károly Pap, the Hungarian-Jewish author who finally won long overdue acclaim many years after he perished in Buchenwald? Janos Kobanyai, the editor of the Jewish-Hungarian publication Past and Future, investigates an extraordinary and original artist

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