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To Learn from the Scholars of the Past

To Learn from the Scholars of the Past
By Eretz Acheret  |  30/12/2010
Kabbalah scholar Charles Mopsik collected and analyzed kabbalistic sources from 16th-century Safed, in order to demonstrate how Kabbalah discusses the very dilemmas of gender that occupy us today. His student, Yael Gronner, writes about an important lesson that Mopsik teaches us: the thinkers of the past knew how to de...

The Connection between the Sex of the Body and the Sex of the Soul
By Yael Gronner  |  30/12/2010
Charles Mopsik (1956-2003), an important French scholar of Kabbalah, gathered and analyzed kabbalistic sources that attest to the fact that Jewish tradition proposes tools that enable an effective grappling with many contemporary issues of physicality and sexual identity. He shows that the Jewish mystics of Safed had n...

On the Beautiful God
By Benyamin Shvily  |  30/12/2010
Binyamin Shvili, poet and author, writes about Pinhas Sadeh, who loved the beautiful God and then became sober. "In my library, Pinhas Sadeh resides alongside Haim Nahman Bialik, Uri Tzvi Greenberg, Yosef Haim Brenner and S.Y. Agnon."

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  30/12/2010
WE LOVE ARABS was the title of an event I was recently invited to, just 10 days ago, on "Facebook". It was a counter-demonstration to the one which Right wing activists were organizing in the city of Bat Yam, nearby Tel-Aviv

Letter from London – Craving more than seasonal spices
By Antony Lerman  |  30/12/2010
As the snow finally melts away, I see it as a metaphor for some of the more ephemeral enthusiasms and indulgences of the season. The energy expended on cooking roast turkey and plum pudding is by no means wasted, but there’s barely a few slivers of bird left now, hardly more than a crumb or two of the dark, aromatic de...

Gold Rush in Treblinka
By Agata Peleszuk  |  30/12/2010
Jan T. Gross, a Jewish-American historian, is shocking the Polish audience again with his upcoming book on the postwar anti-Semitism in Poland. “A Golden Harvest”, planned for publication in February 2011, hit a nerve with describing how some Poles benefited from the Holocaust by plundering abandoned Jewish properties ...

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