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Ultra-Orthodox shunning higher education more than ever
30/11/2013 - 16:30
An academic degree is the main route out of the high poverty rates in Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community. The income of Haredi families in... →
The Judaization of Israel
19/11/2013 - 15:58
The Founding father of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, now officially designated here as “the Visionary of the State”, envisioned the total... →
The triangle connecting the U.S., Israel, and American Jewry may be coming apart
11/11/2013 - 17:41
1➷2: American Jewry-Israel In the first three decades of Israel’s existence as a modern independent state, there was very little daylight... →
A portrait of Israel presented in the lives of Jerusalem's liberators
05/11/2013 - 20:48
Emblematic figures To demonstrate these dilemmas, the author chose to retrace the journeys taken over the four decades that followed the... →
Religion and State in Israel
30/10/2013 - 19:06
Nor does the possibility seem to have occurred to the state itself. A case in point is a recent ruling by Israel’s Supreme Court involving... →
Germany said to warn Israel over skipping UN human rights review
27/10/2013 - 18:46
In recent weeks Israel has reportedly been in discussions with other UN member states over a way for Israel to resume cooperation with the... →
Israeli researchers find triathletes feel less pain
17/10/2013 - 12:03
All the participants were put through a battery of psychophysical pain tests, involving the application of a heating device to one arm and... →
Israeli scientist Arieh Warshel wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
09/10/2013 - 13:37
Karplus, a U.S. and Austrian citizen is affiliated with the University of Strasbourg, France, and Harvard University. Levitt is a U.S. and... →
A leadership of gloom and doom
09/10/2013 - 13:31
The day after this speech, Netanyahu hosted Czech President Milos Zeman in Jerusalem and implicitly compared Israel’s current situation to... →
Why do secular Israeli schools need rabbis?
16/09/2013 - 12:50
Why, though, is a rabbi needed in a school that already has a Bible teacher, lessons about the Jewish holidays, and so on? Did the ministry... →
Piron extends compulsory education law
09/09/2013 - 13:48
Among the additional 84 municipalities are Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Kfar Saba Modi’in, Ma’ale Adumim, Yavne, Mitzpe Ramon, Karmiel, Kiryiat... →
Losing Mom to terrorism: Children's tales
08/09/2013 - 19:28
Rosen has grown up so much since he wrote the piece, he says, that he doesn’t understand how he wrote it. And he doesn’t have a clear... →

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