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To Find Grace Everywhere

To Find Grace Everywhere
By Eretz Acheret  |  09/12/2010
This year, Hanukkah, holiday of light, brought with it withering fire. Following Succot, a disturbing drought was already underway. We fostered the hope that the New Year would bring with it some compensation for last year’s low rainfall that diminished the Kinneret, the reservoirs and the coastal aquifer. However, ...

Love That Is Not Instrumental
By Melila Hellner-Eshed  |  09/12/2010
Deeply conscious of the crisis of contemporary culture, Dana Freibach-Heifetz fleshes out the image of Western humanism. Melila Hellman-Eshed talks with Freibach-Heifetz about her book, Secular Grace

Bearing it
By Naama Cifrony  |  09/12/2010
How should a process of change and healing take place in a person who has experienced a tragedy so terrible that he is unable to bear its implications? What then is that one thing that if we bear “it” and fight for “it,” enables us to keep bearing ahead? Naama Cifrony uses the meaning that British psychoanalyst Wilfred...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  09/12/2010
If last week was all about WikiLeaks, this week is all about the flames of fire which chose the most ironic opportunity burning down to ashes the area of Mount Carmel. Chanukah candles' lighting ceremonies never seem to be so out of tact, and one might wonder about the closure effect of getting help from no other ...

Letter from London – Freedom: a festive gift worth having
By Antony Lerman  |  09/12/2010
We may not be permitted to do anything but look at them, but in the freezing gloom of our unseasonably cold winter, the Chanukah candles have innocently served the wider purpose of being a particularly warming sight. One solitary candle always looks so forlorn, but the candles on the four Chanukiot standing together on...

New Jewish-Muslim dialogue in Europe – Blog
By Agata Peleszuk  |  09/12/2010
A group of Jewish and Muslim community leaders met this week in Brussels to call the European Union for a larger awareness of current problems that religious minorities have to face in Europe. The initiative organized by both the European and the World Jewish Congresses stirs up a question about the real chance for a m...

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