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Fear of Normality
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A Letter to Europe
Jewish and Israeli Culture
Our Weddings as an Identity Card
Are we assimilating?
The Love of Israel: After Post-Zionism
identities in transition: Jews and Israelisin the Age of Doubt
The Quest for Sanctity
The Dying Journalism and the State of the Nation
People of the Story
Gaining clarity: after postmodernism
Giyur: Zionism's Major Challenge and Test
Who has the Rights to Public Property?
What strengthens us and what weakens us
The Torah and Life: What We Need to Learn Now
Everything Can Be Measured: On the Death of Things Beyond Measure
Crisis, Disintegration, and Chance for Renewal
Say Goodbye to Shabbat – Our Enslavement to Culture 24/7
The great void: On the absence of European Jews from the life of the Jewish people and European culture
Jews and Arabs: In view of the vision documents by Israel’s Arabs
Again in Zion - Ethiopian Jews in Israel
Is the Israeli left alive or dead?
One Million Russian Immigrants
Hebron: Religious passions and conflicting narratives
What kind of rabbinate do we need? The Torah world and the challenge of reality
The bread of poverty: Israel in the eyes of the bottom decile
The cost of privatization: On false economic messianism
Bialik: Revisiting the Big Questions
Unconstitutional: The establishment of a private prison in Israel
Love of Israel: After post-Zionism
The Chief Rabbinate versus the Jewish People
A letter to the Palestinians
Thirst: On the New Spirituality
Not submissive: On the women’s struggle in Israel
The full cart: Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the price of success
A state in their image: Finance ministry officials are reshaping Israel’s scale of values
Soul searching – the soul and its search: How will the internal decisions of the Religious Zionist movement impact the future of Israeli society?
An experiment that failed and succeeded
At an Israeli Crossroads
Jewish Urban Fantasies
Between Ramot Beit Shemesh and Kabul
Leaving the Cave
The New Community
A Blessed Abundance of Influences
A "Me-First" Mentality: A Portrait of Israel's Elite
The Days That Are About To Come
New Readings
Looking after One's Own Kind: The Image of Israel's Elite
The Others
No sleep for Israel
The Repression of Our Awareness
The body: Between policing and freedom
We Need New Canonical Texts
Israeli Comments
The Old Myth Lives On
Kafka: To Whom Does This Legacy Belong?
Women's Struggle: Victory from the Bottom-Up
Criticism in an Age of Delegitimization
What about collective rights?
The Jewish Study Ethic in Crisis
Indigenous Readers
The real estate bubble and those outside of it
To Find Grace Everywhere
Lands End: The Struggle Over The Land Has Gone To Court
Cold Days in Europe
To Learn from the Scholars of the Past
Modern Spirituality
The Immeasurability of the Human Soul
Jewish Women Writers
The Body & the Image
Barefoot Reading
Has the United States Anything To Offer Egypt?
A School for Ordinary Jews
Their Tragedy, and Ours
Longing and Love
Israeli Arabs Speak
The Almost Obsessive Presence of the Letter
Emotional renewal
The Soul That Is Inside the Landscape
 

identities in transition: Jews and Israelisin the Age of Doubt

Identities in transition: Jews and Israelis in the Age of Doubt
By Bambi Sheleg  |  12/11/2009
Identities in transition" does not deal with a particular Jewish or Israeli community, or with an actual or acute question, but with states of consciousness. In this edition, we have tried to give expression to a process taking place under the surface that, in our opinion, is gathering momentum and power: the proc...

La Deutsche Vita
By Amit Epstein  |  12/11/2009
Amit Epstein, a young Israeli artist, returned to Berlin, to the world that spewed out his family during that war, and with which he has an unresolved attraction-repulsion relationship. After a year in Berlin, he sketches out a personal impression of contemporary German society and its relationship to Israel and Jews.

Double lives, double identities
By Arieh Ullman  |  12/11/2009
Their longing for the Russian culture they left behind them has made Russian Jews, including those who have become hozrim bitshuva (that is, Jews who have chosen to adopt a religious way of life), decide to lead double lives that, while being richly variegated, do somewhat resemble a Multiple Personality Syndrome (MPS)...

About the ability to listen
By Ayana Ardal  |  12/11/2009
After years of facilitating groups of many different kinds: secular and religious kibbutznikim, people from the north and the south, Gush Katif evacuees, the Bedouins of the Negev, sometimes each group on its own and sometimes together, Sharon Leshem Zinger is not the same woman she was at the beginning of the journey...

Addicted to Pluralities
By Kobi Oz  |  12/11/2009
In the army I came to terms with my origins – moderate Mizrachi; for me, the rise of Shas and ultra-Orthodox Sephardi Judaism simply highlighted the positive strengths of my grandfather, Saba Nissim who was both tolerant and liberal. I decided to make it my mission to re-examine every so often how traditional I wanted ...

How I became part of the majority
By Arik Glasner  |  12/11/2009
As someone who “left the fold,” Arik Glasner identifies the experience of religious Judaism with the experience of a minority per se, and identifies Zionism with the desire of the Jews living in Eretz Israel to no longer be a minority

Yeshivah Student, Feminine Gender
By Mimi Feigelson  |  12/11/2009
Mimi Feigelson, an Orthodox Israeli woman rabbi and Jerusalemite, trains American Conservative students for rabbinical ordination at the American Jewish University, and waits for a change in Israeli Orthodoxy: "Where is our self-examination, when will we women look at our abilities that are wasted because we don&#...

My Body is in the West and My Heart is in the Far Reaches of the East
By Yuri Sela  |  12/11/2009
The Israeli-Jew who studies the teachings of Eastern healing, tries to cope with the painful rift of a society in crisis in relation to its land, its religion, its traditions and its institutions, that at the same time, views itself as a values-based society. In emerging with physical and emotional wounds from the dema...

Providing a Basis for the Infinite Worth of Every Human
By Rani Jaeger  |  12/11/2009
Yair Lorberbaum's Image of God compels the reader to come to terms with the Sisyphean effort to establish the image of God in man in our actions, and provides the reader with the entire Jewish cultural expanse that backs this conception

Yair Lorberbaum, Image of God, Tel Aviv: Shocken, 2004 (Hebrew)

A State of Orphanhood
By Tzahi Weiss  |  12/11/2009
Like lost and frightened children, who find themselves in unknown surroundings and are ready to regard any shaky shelter as a stable home, the Western Jewish world roams though a rootless expanse, and is therefore ready to adopt any aggadic midrash or, alternatively, halakhic book it comes across as a sort of promising...
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