Por Michael Ascoli*
Dile eso al que hoy esté en campaña electoral: “cualquiera que gane honor humillando al prójimo no tendrá lugar en el más allá” (TY Chaghigà 2:1) … ¿pero de verdad los Maestros son tan ingenuos como para …
By Yaakov Mascetti*
As a scholar of the early modern I am obsessively interested in the variegated modalities of individuality, together with the diversified forms of tension between the particular and the general. Naturally, then, the rhetoric of freedom and …
By David Bidussa
“Fascism gathered many legitimate causes of social anger and it systematically turned them into wrongs, into constant oppression, and into denial of human values. If we may find an analogy to the present times, it lies in …
By Daniela Fubini*
Anyone who is even loosely acquainted with the hi-tech scene in Tel Aviv has been at least once on a high floor of the Electra building, across from the three Azrieli towers that used to mark Tel …
By David Bidussa*
There is an obsession that is becoming more and more trusted in the common perception: the obsession of things that cannot be done, and therefore to change the rules so that they can be done. This is …
By Yaakov Mascetti*
The inauguration of the altar ends a seven-day-long process through which Moses sanctifies his brother Aaron and his sons for their sacrificial work in the Tabernacle. As a completion of this process, the eighth day concludes a …
By David Bidussa*
When asked why he did not teach the history of persecutions towards European Jews and their destruction, historian Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi would answer: “I refuse to teach how Jews died to students who have no idea of …
By Daniela Fubini*
So we go to the moon. We as Israel, as a tiny country in a bullying neighborhood, we as a people lacking big numbers anywhere but in entrepreneurship, we as the Start-Up Nation in fact. At 03:45 …
By David Bidussa*
Why does the Day of Memory – February 10 when the Treaty of Paris was signed – struggle to enter into the public conscience 15 years after its establishment? Why does that story of pain and violence …
By Yaakov Mascetti*
The month of Adar is for me a moment of personal reflection, a niche in time where I can stop for a few instants and reflect. True, Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur have that valence, and they …