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Say Goodbye to Shabbat – Our Enslavement to Culture 24/7

Say Goodbye to Shabbat – Our Enslavement to Culture 24/7
By Bambi Sheleg  |  28/01/2010
The world is one big stew of turbulence, and it seems that we are on the verge of far-reaching changes in many realms: economics, security, politics and culture. The waves of change are thundering towards the shore, and no one knows what tomorrow will bring: What form will the rules and the countenance of the global an...

On finishing a project
By Assaf Inbari  |  28/01/2010
When you consider that you have finished a project, you have made the most artistic decision of all, a decision that is irreversible. You have reached the point of no-return, you cannot go back. It is the book you have written, and you no longer have the ability to change even one word in it. It is the song you have ju...

Neither religious nor secular
By Tamar Gingichashvili  |  28/01/2010
Shabbat, on the one hand, and an absence of fanaticism, on the other, cancel out the accepted distinctions between the religious and secular in Ashkelon. Shabbat gives one the freedom to express a Jewish identity based on faith, the tradition of one’s ancestors or a community tradition. Tamar Gingichashvili moved to As...

Blog - 28 January 2010
By Agata Pełeszuk  |  28/01/2010
65 years ago the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp was liberated. The memorial event gathered survivors, veterans and leaders who, like every year, paid the tribute to millions of victims and cursed the history. On such occasion words always try to confront the pain and to answer questions that simply cannot be challenged. The p...

An Israeli in Berlin - Conversion on the dance floor
By Amit Epstein  |  28/01/2010
Next week I'll visit Israel after almost a year. In the six years I live in Germany I've usually visited at least twice a year but a year has passed and I did not even visited once. Israel is considered a dangerous place – I often have people confide in me that secretly they long to experience the mythical Te...

A Letter from London - The value of disunity as we remember the Holocaust
By Antony Lerman  |  28/01/2010
I write this on Holocaust Memorial Day in the United Kingdom. In one of the few European countries that did not directly experience the Holocaust, ceremonies will be held in towns and cities across the nation to commemorate the loss of life in the genocides of the Second World War, and in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and D...

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