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A "Me-First" Mentality: A Portrait of Israel's Elite

A "Me-First" Mentality: A Portrait of Israel's Elite
By Bambi Sheleg  |  05/08/2010
This issue of Eretz Acheret deals with a burning social problem: Why have large portions of a public that was once known as a "serving elite" lost the feeling that they must serve Israeli society? Why have they begun to do what the "global elite" around the world is already doing – namely, following...

The corroders of culture
By Arik Glasner  |  05/08/2010
Where exactly are the advertising elites situated among the political, economic and cultural elites? Arik Glasner sketches out a portrait of a group that subordinates Israeli culture to the needs of economic or political calculations

A letter from London – “Our next big problem” (1)
By Antony Lerman  |  05/08/2010
I was not surprised to read of Shimon Peres’s pathetic foray into the controversial area of English antisemitism. But what made me pay attention and brought a wry smile to my face was his statement, made in an interview with historian Benny Morris for the Tablet website, that ‘There is in England a saying that an anti-...

Blog - “Our next big problem” (2)
By Agata Peleszuk  |  05/08/2010
Israel’s President Shimon Peres came in for harsh criticism last week after his interview for Jewish-American magazine “Tablet”. Public opinion and British establishment of all political persuasions expressed their outrage against Peres’ statement that England is anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli. In spite of an immediate ...

A Person Stands on a Cliff and Attempts to Fly Again
By Einat Yakir  |  05/08/2010
The opposition of body and mind to the idea of falling creates a restrained storm that nonetheless expresses itself in the world and provides the world with the exaltedness it seeks. Einat Yakir follows in the footsteps of poet Avraham Ben-Yitzhak

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  05/08/2010
I want to write about something funny. Well, more ironic then comic, I guess – depends on the point of view…Israeli tourists is the topic of this list. Berlin did not use to be a popular destination five years ago, but in the course of the last years it has changed dramatically, and slowly it became not only popular, b...

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