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What strengthens us and what weakens us

What strengthens us and what weakens us
By Bambi Sheleg  |  31/12/2009
The past few years have left Israeli society in a state of partial shock. Perhaps because the vulnerability of Israel, which imagined itself to be a superpower, became exposed to all, and perhaps because the aggregation of events has revealed a truth that many of us would prefer to deny.

The god of money and his entourage
By Eilon Shamir  |  31/12/2009
When the world wars had ended, the goddess of wisdom was dethroned and the gods of nationhood and power were subsequently removed. “Humanity was now confused. What could humans believe in? Since people had lost their faith in spirit, they turned to materiality.” Eilon Shamir shows us in this narrative why people now be...

On behalf of Interior Language
By A-Tayeb Ghenayim  |  31/12/2009
How can people with such a limited vision that insists on shutting itself inside itself, be called enlightened? How can people who scrupulously praise only their own culture, and grant it every honorable epithet, be called "cultured"?
A-Tayb Ghenayim calls the Israelis to task regarding the sense of Israeli ...

The Depletion of the Spirit in Israel
By Uri Heitner  |  31/12/2009
The uprooting of two thousand years of Jewish culture and creativity from the Israeli identity was an anticultural act of the highest degree. Without the corpus that was produced since the Bible, there is no substantial possibility of connecting to the Bible. Uri Heitner, a member of Kibbutz Ortal, argues with the hist...

On the Edge of Forgetfulness
By Rotem Wagner  |  31/12/2009
As the Zionist revolution moved eastwards, it carried with it an accusation that the old Jews were being hard-hearted and as they engaged in making the desert bloom they forgot the age-old Jewish maxim that memory and forgetfulness are intertwined, like the well-kept secret for a long life. To forget in order to rememb...

Blog - 31 December 2009
By Agata Pełeszuk  |  31/12/2009
Year 2009 brought the increase of immigration to Israel. According to the figures, Aliya rose by some 17 percent. The largest number of Jews that chose to live in Israel came from Eastern Europe and the states of the former Soviet Union. Surprisingly the largest increase of immigrants was proportionally observed among...

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