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Everything Can Be Measured: On the Death of Things Beyond Measure

Everything Can Be Measured: On the Death of Things Beyond Measure
By Bambi Sheleg  |  14/01/2010
The question of what must be quantified, and what realms should remain exempt from quantification, is a principal motif in contemporary global culture and in our Jewish culture. It is universally clear that the ability to measure is important and central in the modern world, and yet, there is a growing feeling that the...

A mirror of the times
By Dafi Konis  |  14/01/2010
Dafi Konis writes a first-person account of her experience with anorexia, the “obsession with being thin,” which she has overcome. She wants to explain to the professionals that treat anorexia that the tyranny of quantifying and measuring, counting and weighing, so typical of the patients who obsessively count calories...

But first, let's do the numbers
By shlomo vagner  |  14/01/2010
What is so terrible about a standardizing, quantifying concept of reality? What is wrong with the creation of a system of indexes that would enable us to quantify various phenomena and to compare them in different time-periods and in different places? Shlomo Wagner considers the present idolization of numbers

Blog - 14 January 2010
By Agata Pełeszuk  |  14/01/2010
On the eve of a visit of Pope Benedict XVI at the Rome synagogue a series of questions about the future of Jewish-Catholic relations is suspended in the air. Observers wait for the “right” words to be spoken and “proper” gestures to be made. The papal decision to carry on a beatification process of a controversial pont...

A letter from London - what Israel's inside a Jew?
By Antony Lerman  |  14/01/2010
A very high proportion of my Jewish friends have lived a part of their lives in Israel. But stereotype their experiences of the country at your peril. The time they spent there; the places where they lived; whether they studied, worked, volunteered, served in the army; their memories of what it was like; how they feel ...

An Israeli in Berlin - Conversion on the dance floor
By Amit Epstein  |  14/01/2010
Sometimes I'm asking myself if being Israeli would have been important to me even if it wouldn't have mattered to others. The issue of being sorted out by the national identity is a complexed concern of mine – going both ways…

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