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Ideology, Interests, and Inequality
By Micha Odenheimer  |  11/11/2010
The claim of the “rich get richer” economists who run the Treasury Ministry and the Bank of Israel is not based on any moral or ethical vision. How could it be? Instead, they drape their economic views in the mantle of science. The crash of fall 2008 should teach us to reclaim our public space and resource

The universal principles of the guardians of political correctness
By Yair Sheleg  |  11/11/2010
The intellectual elite in Israel and in the West maintain a double standard: It does not apply its seemingly universal principles to groups whose philosophy runs counter to the “political correctness” that it seeks to enforce. The liberal approach, in the name of which it speaks, endangers the welfare of the (family a...

The Process of Privatization and the Labor Party's Demise
By Dani Gutwein  |  11/11/2010
Post-Zionism is the meta-ideology of the process of privatization in Israel. It attacked the Zionist idea and the way in which it manifested because of Zionism’s proximity to the basic assumptions of the socialist perspective. As the Left became increasingly addicted to privatization, it ceased being an economic-social...

Letter from London – Surrendering to the oligarchs
By Antony Lerman  |  11/11/2010
Jewish billionaire oligarchs from the former Soviet Union (FSU) are hot property in Jewish Europe today. The second most prominent pan-European Jewish organization, the European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC), now has one for its leader. The most prominent, the European Jewish Congress (EJC), has had one since 20...

The Controversial Biography of Wiera Gran
By Agata Peleszuk  |  11/11/2010
A biography of Wiera Gran recently published in Poland made a lot of fuss not only in Warsaw. Here is the story of a Jewish singer in wartime Polish capital, accused by many to be collaborator with Germans, focused on fragments of Gran’s testimony claiming Vladislav Szpilman to have collaborated with the Nazi occup...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  11/11/2010
I was sitting in a restaurant with a friend of mine, a woman in her late 50's, a descendant to a celebrated German-Jewish family who got out just in time to the UK, where she was born. She has moved to Germany over 15 years ago, as she is very much involved in her family's heritage and the traces left behind ...

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