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The Body & the Image

My Body, Which Belongs to the Biometric Database
By Noam Avidan Sela  |  27/01/2011
The instinctive opposition in Israel to the new biometric database law touches on the basic issues of human liberty and free will as well as on the fundamental question, “What is an individual? Noam Avidan Sela writes about his “identity” (namely, the identity of his body), which has become an integral part of the stat...

The Body and the Image
By Ishay Rosen-Zvi  |  27/01/2011
In rabbinic literature, the individual is not identified with the soul, but rather, with the body. The soul, for its part, is likened to a garment that must be returned, in pristine condition, to the King. Inversion of this hierarchy is particularly interesting in light of the Platonic model, according to which man is ...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  27/01/2011
By some kind of coincidence, the appointment set for me in the local Auslaenderbehoerde (the public authority responsible for foreigners), to consider my appeal to prolong my stay in Germany, fell on the international memorial day for the holocaust – today – 27.1.

Letter from London – Let’s recognize the multiplicity of Jewish and Israeli identities
By Antony Lerman  |  27/01/2011
The classic Zionist idea that after the birth of Israel Jews would either emigrate to the Jewish state or assimilate to extinction in Diaspora countries had a certain clear-cut simplicity and finality about it. The Jewish people would either become ‘new Jews’, that is, Israelis. Or they would remain Diaspora Jews and w...

Is France Dangerous for Jews? – Blog
By Agata Pelezsuk  |  27/01/2011
In the latest anti-Semitism report of the Jewish Agency France was singled out as the most dangerous place for Jews in Europe. It is not the first time that French Jewry is warned of a growing anti-Jewish sentiment. Are these warnings serious or unrealistic? Are they aimed to raise awareness or rather encourage French ...

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