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We Need New Canonical Texts

We Need New Canonical Texts
By Muki Tzur  |  03/10/2010
A recent book by Ismar Schorsch, chancellor emeritus of the Jewish Theological Seminary, illuminates for Muki Tzur important landmarks for the great challenge that we face: restitution of the spiritual home of the Jewish people

Rethinking Liberalism
By Michal Shaked  |  03/10/2010
In Menachem Mautner’s book, Law and Culture in Israel at the Threshold of the Twenty First Century (Hebrew: Am Oved, Sapir College and Tel Aviv University, 2008), the former hegemonic cultural group that has supplied the Israel Supreme Court with justices is not handled with kid gloves. In Mautner’s view, these indivi...

The rainmakers
By Inbar Raveh  |  03/10/2010
Like a person who lives next to the ocean, and over the years no longer hears the rush of the waves, human society becomes deaf to the sounds of reality. Except that there are certain unique individuals who can revive its perception through their different apprehension of it, and thanks to their strange behavior. Inbar...

Letter from London – The futility of drawing lines in the sand
By Antony Lerman  |  03/10/2010
Drawing strict boundaries, or lines in the sand, between secular and religious Jews has never made much sense to me. Visiting the cemetery on the anniversary of a parent’s death, lighting Shabbat candles, pointing to the Seder plate during the reading of the Haggada—I know many so-called secular Jews who follow these a...

Why not? – blog
By Agata Peleszuk  |  03/10/2010
In coming week Danny Chanoch, the protagonist of a documentary “Pizza in Auschwitz”, is visiting his family town of Kaunas in Lithuania during the Kaunas International Film Festival. A sentimental trip of the Holocaust survivor to the place of his origin brings out the most essential characteristics of all controversia...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  03/10/2010
The recent reports about the 'malicious software' eating its way through Iranian computer-systems, possibly heading/arrived at Bushehr nuclear power plant or the uranium enrichment plant at Natanz, made my day.

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