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People of the Story

People of the Story
By Doron Nesher  |  03/12/2009
What is the story about? About us. In other words, where we came from, where we are going, and to whom we will have to render accounts. Where we came from is not only an archaeological question, the question of where we're headed is not a mere political query, and the question of to whom we will have to render acc...

Who Knows to Wait
By Dudu Lieberman  |  03/12/2009
In recent generations we became accustomed to rely on our might and intelligence. We have indeed made great achievements, but we have shunned the virtue of humility. The time has come to return to the center of our consciousness the human types who have been shunted to the sidelines

Paradox or Contradiction
By Miriam Gonchareska  |  03/12/2009
Miriam Gonchareska, a journalist with the Polish magazine Europa, discovered that being a Polish Jew in Israel is not easy. “Are you really Polish? Are you sure you’re not from Russia? Are you really Jewish? Why did you wait so long to come here? Did you know that the Poles hate the Jews?”

Between the good God and the bad God
By Reuven Hacohen-Uriah  |  03/12/2009
Is there a profound and fundamental difference between the image of God that the members of the Ashkenazi community pray to and the object of worship of the Sephardim? Do the Rosh Hashanah prayers provide the key to the rift between the those who observe tradition and secular Jews?

Where Does God Live?
By Barry Zimmerman  |  03/12/2009
The conclusion of the Bible ensured God's dwelling within the verses, and also ensured the Rabbis' exclusivity as the interpreters of the verses. The intense divine radiation trapped in Scripture fed generations of religious commentators, and afterwards of national-Zionist ones. But the voice of the commentat...

The Blessing of Diversity versus the Curse of Multiplicity
By Yedidia Stern  |  03/12/2009
Looking out at our society, in the present day, one sees not see the radiant aspect of the blessing that diversity brings, but rather the sadness and pain of the curse of multiplicity. The agents of influence in both cultures prefer to present them as mutually exclusive alternatives, set up for an unavoidable struggle:...

“... for we be brethren”
By Yoram Meltzer  |  03/12/2009
“... for we be brethren” - this is how I feel. Without the stickiness of togetherness, without any outpouring of abundant love, but in an attempt to understand, as I always carry with me the sadness of an enforced silence and a huge quantity of resentment and rage; there is not a trace of romanticism here and I find it...

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