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Bialik: Revisiting the Big Questions

Bialik: Revisiting the Big Questions
By Bambi Sheleg  |  08/04/2010
The western world is facing a severe crisis, and Israeli society, dominated by the western values system, is also in crisis. The signs of this crisis are discernable in all public systems in Israel, particularly in the vacuous agendas of Israel's political parties. The only national agenda is survival, and the onl...

The Complete, Broken Jew
By Be'eri Zimmerman  |  08/04/2010
The character of contemporary Jewish reality has been determined, as has been the case with Jewish reality in previous epochs, by the ongoing confrontation between the proponents of
peshat (literal interpretation of biblical texts) and the proponents of derash (non-literal interpretation of biblical texts). While the...

The Shekhina’s broken wing
By Tzahi Weiss  |  08/04/2010
From the moment the sons abandon her, she grows increasingly weaker, until her wings break and she finds herself seeking protection in the arms of the only son who remains at home. The wing of the Shekhina has broken because there is no one left to seek refuge under it. Tzahi Weiss writes about the Kabbalistic elements...

A Letter from London – going just a bit too far
By Antony Lerman  |  08/04/2010
My jaw dropped when I heard that the Pope’s preacher—the only cleric who is allowed to preach to the Pope—had claimed that the ‘vilification’ of the Catholic Church over the child sex abuse scandals was like the worst aspects of antisemitism. But when he said that this was a view a Jewish friend of his had expressed in...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  08/04/2010
Easter is one of the holidays I'm not sure I truly get. Except for the Christian (one might say almost childish) need to celebrate every time we do and the pagan symbolic urge to announce spring, the idiosyncratic link between a dead Jew's rebirth(?!) and chocolate eggs leaves me obscure.

Blog - Jewish Humor
By Agata Peleszuk  |  08/04/2010
in recent episode of The Simpsons a famous family of weirdoes travels to Israel. Guided by Sacha Baron Cohen they explore the craziness of Eretz Israel, including a Jerusalem Syndrome. A funny episode constructed as a medley of jokes, brings out a question about roots of Jewish humor in general. The history takes us ba...

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