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Between Ramot Beit Shemesh and Kabul

Between Ramot Beit Shemesh and Kabul
By Bambi Sheleg  |  08/07/2010
In recent years, persistent rumors have filtered through to the editorial board of Eretz Acheret concerning the difficulties of secular Jews who need the services of health maintenance organization clinics located in ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Jewish neighborhoods in the city of Beit Shemesh. It has come to our attention ...

Risking One's Life on the Bus
By Anat Tzruya  |  08/07/2010
While doing research for a new movie, Anat Tzruya learned the intimate details of a lynch that took place on a "mehadrin" (super-kosher, with separate seating for men and women) bus in Beit Shemesh against a young 18-year-old religious woman, Oriyah Ferdheim, whose heinous sin was sitting in the men's se...

A beacon of hope from Beit Shemesh?
By Yitzhak Meir Yavetz  |  08/07/2010
Yitzhak Meir Yavetz, a full-time Haredi yeshiva student who moved to Ramat Beit Shemesh A from Jerusalem in order to improve his economic situation, found himself involved in social and ideological confrontations that motivated him to leave the ultra-Orthodox world and join up with the very strictly Torah-observant sec...

Blog - German-Israeli relations
By Agata Peleszuk  |  08/07/2010
The Bundestag parties passed a joint resolution condemning Israel’s seizure of the Mavi Marmara flotilla and Gaza Strip blockade. In an immediate response the Jewish Central Council of Germany slammed the decision of the federal parliament. This course of events threw a shadow on the unique German-Israeli relations. Fu...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  08/07/2010
Two events which happened lately concerned me this week – although they are not connected directly, I find there is a remarkable link between them

Letter from London – Journeys we Jews still need to make
By Antony Lerman  |  08/07/2010
At this time of year, my feet are itching to be elsewhere. Not feeling the Mediterranean sand between their toes—or at least not yet—but rather wandering through the old streets of Kazimiersz in Krakow and tasting the offerings at the 20th Festival of Jewish Culture, which closed last Sunday with a concert by Leopold K...

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