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The purpose of this web site is to encourage the cultivation of Jewish values, articulated and refined through familiarity with our culture, history, traditions, religion and heritage.
Judaism is organic, in constant flux and tension, growing and evolving in response to society. Piety, religious practice and synagogue attendance may have been the paramount manifestation of Jewish expression in the past but has been diminished. Replacing these traditions with meaningful alternatives to meet new the challenges of a new generation of Jews in America and Israel is our challenge.
The postings of essays, musings and short stories linked here are some of the ways by which this observer of the Jewish community has chosen to articulate his search for Jewish values as some of the older ones are challenged by 21st century Jews in Israel and America. |
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Sixty Four Years Later
Sixty-four years after the establishment of the State of Israel its intellectuals are still debating the central issues of Zionism and peoplehood. Sixty-four years after the establishment of the third commonwealth we are still questioning the viability of Israel. Sixty four years into a dynamic, economically robust and politically stable democracy Israel is still being treated as though she were in need of serious psychotherapy in the form of a national therapy session represented by its leading intellectuals.
“Keyboard Warriors Fighting Over Israel’s Future” (Haaretz, April 27, 2012) by Tom Segev is a fascinating article which highlights the efforts of one of Israel’s military heroes to galvanize leading Israeli thinkers to discuss fundamental and core issues defining Israel ad its raisson d’etre. E mail discussion groups is the new forum in which nationally recognized thinkers like A.B.Yehoshua chime in with Prof. Hamutal Bar Yosef on the existential crises of the Jewish people.
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