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Crisis, Disintegration, and Chance for Renewal

Crisis, Disintegration, and Chance for Renewal
By Bambi Sheleg  |  21/01/2010
The broad public now understands that the government of extremes and sectors has led us to the abyss, and seeks to return to a balancing center-position in all areas of life: political, economic, social and cultural. However, this center is not unified as a movement, and most significantly, at the level of ideology and...

From morality to ideology and back
By Yehudah Mirsky  |  21/01/2010
The ideologies that supplanted the old world swallowed up morality, and have since themselves expired. With their decline, the moral values that the ideologies coveted or implemented in their early days disappeared. We are left with a moral void

The Depletion of the Spirit in Israel
By Uri Heitner  |  21/01/2010
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...

Blog - 21 January 2010
By Agata Pełeszuk  |  21/01/2010
Polish artist Rafal Betlejewski launched a brave project that brutally breaks the stereotypes. In various places in Poland, and also in Tel Aviv, he wrote on the walls with capital letters “I miss you, Jew!”. Such a simple narrative was aimed to expose the original meaning of the word “Jew” that throughout centuries lo...

An Israeli in Berlin - Conversion on the dance floor
By Amit Epstein  |  21/01/2010
One of the most intense memories I have from my childhood during the 80's in Israel is of me sitting in the back of our car, anxious. Not of the car or the drive but of the stares I got from others, passing by. It was a white BMW, as white as my dad – as a rule, Ashkenazi men did not buy German cars, it was morall...

A Letter from London – The last Cretan synagogue lives on
By Antony Lerman  |  21/01/2010
I felt sick to my stomach when I heard that the Etz Hayyim synagogue in Hania, Crete, had suffered a second arson attack in 10 days. I got the call just after 9 am on Saturday. The attack had taken place at 3.30 that morning. This Romaniote synagogue is a haven of peace and tranquillity and a meeting ground for Jews, C...

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