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The ideology of selfishness and its price
By Micha Odenheimer  |  12/08/2010
It would be a fateful mistake to miss the broader implications of the crisis. The roots of the economic collapse are not technical; they are implanted in primary principles, ethics and fundamental beliefs. Micha Odenheimer sketches out the process of how the American economy collapsed, one stage after the next. Read it...

After the "Scholar-Society"
By Bezalel Cohen  |  12/08/2010
The severe economic blow sustained by the philanthropists of the haredi (ultra-Orthodox Jewish) world in America is also developing into a severe economic blow to haredi society in Israel. Bezalel Cohen thinks that this new reality, where no support can be expected from either the government or philanthropy, will drama...

Obama, teaching by example
By Nazir Majali  |  12/08/2010
The oppressed multitudes who were suffused with hope by Barack Obama’s election, are invited to take a good look and see that Obama never wallowed in the warm embrace of self-pity. Instead, he fought the scourges of racism, discrimination and oppression very cleverly, without anger or hate, therefore able to recruit pe...

A tribute to the prewar Warsaw – Blog
By Agata Peleszuk  |  12/08/2010
Between 28 August and 5 September the Polish capital will set off on a time travel during the Singer’s Warsaw Festival. The 7th edition will focus mostly on the theater, but the streets of the former Jewish quarter will also fill up with the traditional and modern Jewish music. Long list of plays, cabarets and music pe...

Letter from London – The first Bat Mitzvah in 2,000 years
By Antony Lerman  |  12/08/2010
As the last of our family and friends leave the old Venetian port city of Hania, Crete, after witnessing and celebrating with us the Bat Mitzvah of our daughter in the island’s only synagogue, we are left with the most extraordinary and moving memories

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  12/08/2010
A friend of mine, who has moved to Berlin the same time I did more or less, became an appreciated figure in the European documentary film and art scene. We hardly see us due to her excessive load of work planning, organizing and creating. She is dedicated to her doings and contributes by creating appropriate platforms ...

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