Why Israel?
Click here for original downloadable pdf. Click here for updated downloadable pdf – a few more women’s and American voices “…According to Brandeis, Zionism in America was far more concerned with...
View ArticleComing Home
Look, let’s be straight. I think that living in Israel is a good thing. I also, continuing to taste its fruits to this day, think that making aliya is a good thing. I think that the Absorption Ministry...
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Navigating the Uproar: Campaign to Bring Israelis Home
The past two weeks have seen an eruption of responses to the recent ad campaign commissioned by Israel’s Ministry of Immigrant Absorption. The campaign, targeted at Israeli ex-pats living in the United...
View ArticleChapter 8: the Jews of the United States
The United States is the largest Diaspora community in the world and has been since the mid twentieth century. It is an extraordinarily successful community, on the whole, and there are many who argue...
View ArticleChapter 6: The structure and institutions of the Jewish community
So what did the whole thing look like? In this chapter we will examine how the Jewish community was structured and how the values and beliefs that lay behind the whole Rabbinic system produced an...
View ArticleChapter 5: The Jewish community in time and space
Looking for a place to park our weary bones We will be looking at themes connected with the idea and the practice of Jewish community within the historical framework that we have already established....
View ArticleChapter 3: The Jewish People’s story, the pre-modern period
In this chapter we will examine the dynamics of Jewish community in the emerging Diaspora center. We will see the growth and the decline of great Jewish communities, each with their own Rabbinic...
View ArticleChapter 1: Demography – Where are the Jews today and how did they get there?
One of the most difficult series of questions in the Jewish world today concerns demography. How many Jews actually exist in the world today? What is happening to the Jewish population in different...
View ArticleArik Einstein – Lost and Found in Translation
Along with the heart-felt tributes to Arik Einstein, there has been a fascinating undercurrent of emotional hoarding on the part of some Israelis. Assuming that no one outside of Israel has ever heard...
View ArticleThree comments on Israel Education in the wake of the Kotel Affair
Three thoughts about the way in which the compromise agreement over mixed-prayer at the Kotel was “frozen” by Prime Minister Netanyahu, thus infuriating the Jewish world: 1. For all its pain,...
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