Category: religions
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Shlomo Sand’s response to Carlo Strenger in Haaretz: on Israeli identity, Jewish democracy and oxymorons
On Israeli identity, Jewish democracy and oxymorons – A response to Carlo Strenger – Opinion – Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper Reading this article I noticed, he published another book: in English: When and How I Stopped Being Jewish (not yet available) in French: Comment j’ai cessé d’être juif : Un regard israélien [Amazon-link]…
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The Maccabiah Games are quadrennial Jewish Olympics, held in Israel the year following the Olympic Games
The Maccabiah Games history and information
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abortion politics arrive in Israel – JTA – Jewish Ideas Daily
Abortion Politics Arrive in Israel – JTA – Jewish Ideas Daily Update 2012-08-15 I received a hint with a link to a rather informative article by Rabbi Yaacov Haber at TorahLab.org/lifecycle/article/abortion . (Many thanks for that!!!) That article makes it very clear, that abortion is not a non-issue in Judaism resp. the Jewish society.