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Israeli Identity

Obama's Victory and the American Social Contract: Lessons for Israel

Carlo Strenger | Posted 01.13.2013 | World
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Multiculturalism, Avigdor Lieberman, Israel Arab Minority, Sephardic Jews, Social Contract, Obama Reelection, Ethnic Minorities, Barack Obama, Sephardic, Israeli Identity, Ashkenazi, Israeli Politics, Minority Rights, Russian Immigrants, World News
Carlo Strenger

We in Israel have no choice but to move towards a social contract of mutual respect and equal rights for all, and we should take America's reelection of President Barack Hussein Obama as an inspiration.

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Israelis, Resentful Of Orthodox Grip On Society, Fight Back

Posted 12.07.2011 | Religion
Read More: Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, Haredi Secular Divide, Video, Israeli Identity, Judaism, Hardei Jews in Israel, Haredim, Ultra Orthodox Israel, Secular Jews, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Israel, Haredi, Haredi Jews, Religion News

By Michele Chabin Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS) With its department-store-sized windows, the Kolben Dance Company's studio faces a busy do...

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Israel's Ex-Pat Ad Campaign: A Canadian Jew Reacts

Brent E. Sasley | Posted 02.05.2012 | Religion
Read More: Zionism, Israel, Canadian Jews, American Jews, Diaspora, Jewish Identity, Israeli and American Jews, Israeli Identity, Jewish American Identity, Zionism and Judaism, Judaism, Religion News
Brent E. Sasley

Perhaps Canadian Jews accept the importance of Israel to their identity more readily than American Jews. Still, Americans should not be surprised by the campaign. It reflects a decades-old tension within Zionism.

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When The Walls Come Tumbling Down

Avraham Burg | Posted 06.01.2011 | Religion
Read More: Israel, Jews and Anti-Semitism, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jewish Identity, Judaism, Jewish Peoplehood, Juan Williams, Nazi Germany, Holocaust Mentality, State of Israel, Peace in the Middle East, Zionism and Anti-Semitism, A.b. Yehoshua, Anti-Semetism, Post-Anti-Semitism, Ghetto Mentality, Jean-Paul Sartre, Origins of Zionism, Israeli Identity, Religion News
Avraham Burg

The time has come to take the next step and ask whether we can in fact exist at all without an external enemy, without anti-Semitism.

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