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What kind of rabbinate do we need? The Torah world and the challenge of reality

What kind of rabbinate do we need? The Torah world and the challenge of reality
By Bambi Sheleg  |  18/03/2010
Thousands of rabbis are today active in Israel and in the Jewish world as a whole. Most of them belong to the Orthodox establishment, especially to the ultra-Orthodox stream. Although these rabbis represent only a small portion of Israeli Jewish society and the Jewish people in general, their influence on the lives of ...

For whom will the Messiah come?
By Naama Kelman  |  18/03/2010
Naama Kelman, the first woman to be ordained by the Movement for Progressive Judaism – the Reform Movement – in Israel, calls on the rabbinical establishment in Israel to engage in a moral revolution and return to the spirit of Jeremiah and Amos

A Time of Profound Change
By Yuval Sherlo  |  18/03/2010
The challenges facing the rabbinic world in this generation requires people who have in-depth knowledge of all the treasures of the Torah world, and on the other hand, have expert knowledge and full understanding of the spiritual and cultural trends of the period. In all probability, we will have to recognize the fact ...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  18/03/2010
From time to time it happens that I am asked to react, lecture or give an interview regarding aspects of Israel. Last week came somewhat of an unusual request – a journalist wanted to talk with me about the Israeli dance scene, for a focus article in the German magazine "ballettanz".

Blog - The humanitarian mask
By Agata Peleszuk  |  18/03/2010
In the post-war era Norway and Sweden were known as a model welfare states where everybody would like to live. Among highly developed social-care system and calm temperament of Scandinavians, the only disadvantage seemed to be a fickle weather. These days we hear about the wave of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism growing...

A Letter from London - Jews divided? What’s new
By Antony Lerman  |  18/03/2010
I’ve just received an invitation to have dinner with my enemies. Wait. Perhaps that’s putting it a bit strongly. Let’s say: with people whose disagreements with me are expressed in violent language, mostly on blogs, but just occasionally to my face. That I’ve had this experience, I know, will not shock anyone. Jews div...

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