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Rising Streams: Reform and Conservative Judaism in Israel
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Rising Streams: Reform and Conservative Judaism in Israel
14/10/2018
By: Dan Feferman
Identity
On Genetics and Jewish History
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On Genetics and Jewish History

Conference on Genomics – From Disease Prevention to Treatment, Population, Medicine and Society, Haifa, Technion and Clalit Health Fund, 2-5 Oct. 2018 During the first international conference on this subject, which took place in Haifa in 2016, I deplored the gap between the fast advancing genetic sciences and Jewish historiography. Historians should have discovered the human genome as a new…
02/10/2018
Science and Technology

Are We Guilty? Are We Traitors?

Israel’s national clock is about to strike on the ‘Days of Awe’, a time of soul searching and reckoning. This is most clearly expressed in the classic confession – “We have been guilty, we have betrayed, we have robbed, we have slandered” – the main theme of the Yom Kippur service. The confession, a deliberate self-criticism, is based on two…
17/09/2018
2018 Annual Assessment
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2018 Annual Assessment

THE JEWISH STATE AT 70 PROJECT HEAD Dr. Shlomo Fischer Contributors Avinoam Bar-Yosef, Dan Feferman, Avi Gil, Inbal Hakman, Michael Herzog, Dov Maimon, Gitit Paz-Levi, Judit Bokser Liwerant, Steven Popper, Uzi Rebhun, Shmuel Rosner, John Ruskay, Noah Slepkov, Adar Schiber, Shalom Salomon Wald EDITORS Barry Geltman Rami Tal
04/09/2018

Rosh Hashanah: The Personal and the National

The Jewish calendar should guide our lives not only as individuals and a community, but also as a society and a state. If we want to preserve our identity as a distinct cultural and national group, we must make the effort to shape the cycle of time in our own way. In our daily lives, the clock is set to…
23/08/2018

Israel Is Repeating The Mistakes That Led To The Temple’s Destruction

Generations of rabbis and scholars have endeavored to understand the reason for the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem. The Talmud and Midrash propose a wide range of solutions, all of which assign the blame to the behavior of the generation that experienced tragedy. One of the most fascinating of these interpretations is found in the Babylonian Talmud (Bava Metzia…
17/07/2018

Is it time to do away with Tisha B’Av?

So here I am, sitting in my car, crawling at a snail’s pace in the midst of a traffic jam on Begin Boulevard, the cross-Jerusalem highway. Around me are hundreds of frustrated drivers. The mountains around me are covered with densely built-up neighborhoods. Jerusalem of 2018 is a vibrant and thriving city in Israel. These are the days of mourning…
16/07/2018
70 Years of Israel-Diaspora Relations: The Next Generation
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Israel-Diaspora Relations

70 Years of Israel-Diaspora Relations: The Next Generation

JPPI’s 2018 Structured Jewish World Dialogue   70 Years of Israel-Diaspora Relations: The Next Generation   Project Heads: Shmuel Rosner and John Ruskay Contributors: Noah Slepkov, Dov Maimon, Dan Feferman, Uzi Rebhun, Adar Schieber Editors: Barry Geltman and Rami Tal  
11/07/2018
By: Shmuel Rosner, Dr. John Ruskay
Israel-Diaspora Relations

The Attack on Legal Oversight Threatens Us All

It is important to distinguish the job of a private attorney from that of an attorney in the public service. The former is beholden to a single client, who has hired his services; the latter has two clients — the government ministry to which he is appointed, and the public. In addition to legal advice, an attorney in the public…
02/07/2018
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