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David Hartman 10/04/2008 - Should Jewishness in Israel be legislated or a choice? Fight over chametz sales at Pesach in Israel raises question of legislating religious principles, but freedom of religion or non-religion is an option that should be decided by individual and not Knesset 12/03/2008 - Do not invoke Amalek lightly 03/02/2008 - Balancing ritual and ethics in one’s religious life 19/08/2007 - Cultivating a culture of innovative traditionalism Donniel Hartman 05/05/2008 - The ‘High Holidays’ of Israel Israel must be that which remembers, and through that memory constantly commands itself to be worthy of the price we paid. It is a memory that commands us to embrace life and challenges us to live it to the fullest, to build lives individually and collectively of greatness 31/03/2008 - The challenge and crisis of conversion in Israel 26/02/2008 - When an earthquake is not just an earthquake 11/02/2008 - Choosing the ideal U.S. president for Israel Moshe Halbertal 20/02/2008 - The Iranian bomb: bane or boon? Arab national regimes, once quite content to allow radical Islam to spearhead their war against Israel for them, now find themselves within fatal range of the nuclear monster they’ve helped create Avi Sagi 02/04/2008 - Make room for Israeli Arabs As long as every political, religious and ethnic subgroup in Israel may assert its presence in the public sphere, the Arab sector must be allowed to do so, too Menachem Lorberbaum 29/01/2008 - Moshe Rabbeinu and the Winograd Commission Our politicians would do well to learn a thing or two from Moshe: a man humble enough to listen to others, but not so humble that he can no longer lead Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi 07/05/2008 - Taking the Declaration of Independence off the wall Sixty years after Jews transcended their denominational divides to proclaim the establishment of a state “for the benefit of all its inhabitants,” have we succeeded in fulfilling their legacy of pluralism and tolerance? 03/02/2008 - Ongoing tasks of liberal Judaism Zvi Zohar 07/02/2008 - "Like a newborn baby": Intermarriage and conversion Rather than worry about the religious intention of the would-be convert, the rabbis ought to concern themselves with the future of his children Micah Goodman 13/03/2008 - Breaking the chain of terrorism The army and Shin Bet, for all of their diligent work in preventing attacks, cannot put an end to terrorism; the true battlefield of terror is the human mind, and it is only there that it can be defeated Alex Sinclair 10/03/2008 - International condemnation good for Israel We can feel outrage at the ignorance and one-sidedness of Ban Ki-moon and his friends, but deep down, we should thank them: their outrage leads to our way out Dror Yinon 21/01/2008 - Unite Israel`s education system A unified state school system - where secular and religious children study together, eat lunch together, play basketball and go on field trips together - is the only way to secure our future as a people.

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