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The full cart: Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the price of success

The full cart: Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the price of success
By Bambi Sheleg  |  27/05/2010
The ultra-Orthodox Jewish (haredi) community constitutes eight percent of Israel's total Jewish population. This community is growing rapidly and its political influence is increasing as Israel's political center is continuing to fragment itself. The amazing vitality of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community – a...

In the Name of the Supporting Actors
By Anat Zuria  |  27/05/2010
In "Summer Holiday," Wallach protests against the reign of the dominant father, and chooses as his focus the gaze of those who are absent from the mythical biblical story – the silence of Sarah and of Isaac. Anat Tzruya believes that Wallach's is a film on the victims of the monotheistic and patriarchal...

Breaking down the wall between the Haredim and the religious Zionists
By Yitzhak Meir Yavetz  |  27/05/2010
From the perspective of a Haredi Torah scholar looking at religious-Zionist society, Yitzhak Meir Yavetz hopes that the all-inclusive rejection of everything associated with religious Zionism will abate in the coming years. In his opinion, much of the dispute between the two camps is archaic, and in many cases, the bat...

Blog - The visit of Prime Minister Netanyahu to France
By Agata Peleszuk  |  27/05/2010
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit to France this week takes place surrounded by a clatter of criticism. Israeli leader’s firm declaration of indivisibility of Jerusalem and controversy over Israel’s settlement policy meet with opposition not only from left-wing and Muslim groups, but also from parts of French Jewry. In ...

A Letter from London – Travelling hopefully and arriving
By Antony Lerman  |  27/05/2010
To adapt a common joke told about waiting for buses, you wait decades for a Jewish candidate for the leadership of Britain's Labour Party to arrive, and suddenly two come along at once—and they're brothers. David and Ed Miliband—the former foreign secretary and energy and climate change minister in the outgoi...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  27/05/2010
Every year Israel gets a chance to fulfill an old dream and make-believe it IS a part of Europe, after all; at the Eurovision song contest.

Just like the famous song's title "the lady is a tramp", the grand prix (as it is called here in Germany) is a trap...

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