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An experiment that failed and succeeded

An experiment that failed and succeeded
By Be'eri Zimmerman  |  17/06/2010
The kibbutz movement is dying. Assaf Inbari, who grew up on Kibbutz Afikim, has created a monument to the kibbutz movement in his book Habayita (Home) and Be'eri Zimmerman, who grew up on Kibbutz Givat Haim Meuhad, is full of admiration: “The single, private voice, the book's narrative voice, acts as a solit...

We need new canonic texts
By Muki Tzur  |  17/06/2010
The new book by Ismar Schorsch, the former Chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) marks in the eyes of Muki Tzur a major milestone in the challenge facing us: the rebuilding of the spiritual home of the Jewish people

Awe and Chasm
By Moti Zeira  |  17/06/2010
David Meletz, a member of the Third Aliyah, and a founder of Kibbutz Ein Harod in the Jezreel Valley, succeeded in articulating the sundered spiritual state of the pioneer generation, which has been bequeathed to us, its successors. In complete contrast to his peers, who lived with a feeling that their path as secular-...

Letter from London – Changing patterns of belonging
By Antony Lerman  |  17/06/2010
If opinions were capital assets in the Jewish world we would have been able to repair the damage done to Jewish institutions by the Madoff scandal and the global financial meltdown within days. Reality is, as ever, more prosaic. Opinions may multiply like a Fibonacci sequence. Insight based on facts is much harder to c...

Blog - Human values can survive inhuman times
By Agata Peleszuk  |  17/06/2010
This week 18 Poles were decorated with medals of the Righteous Among the Nations. Newly rewarded joined a large group of more than 22,000 non-Jews from 44 countries who saved Jewish people during the Holocaust. The heroic conduct and virtuous deeds regardless of origin or faith still amaze and fill with admiration. Dur...

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