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Azure no. 39
Winter 5770 / 2010

Marla Braverman
A State in Need of a Spine

Carlo Strenger
Knowledge-Nation Israel: A New Unifying Vision

Yaki Menschenfreund
The Holocaust and the Trial of Modernity

Yehuda Liebes
Of God's Love and Jealousy

Boaz Neumann
Hitler's Unwilling Partners

Shmuel Rosner
The War that Keeps on Teaching

Benjamin Kerstein
A Job Badly Done

Jews and Christian; Chabad's Messianism

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Knowledge-Nation Israel:
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Carlo Strenger

In its quest to create a “new Jew,” Zionism demanded that Jews no longer make a living through their brains, but by their sweat of their brow. Today, however, as global economy becomes increasingly dependent on knowledge and creativity, Israel must reclaim the Jewish tradition of intellectual excellence, reinstating it into the heart of its ethos. Knowledge-Nation Israel thus proposes a new form of Zionism, linking the rich cultural heritage of the Jewish past with the new socioeconomic turn of the Israeli future. More »

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Knowledge-Nation Israel: A New Unifying Vision

Carlo Strenger | To prosper in an interconnected world, the Jewish state must undergo a paradigm shift.

The Holocaust and the Trial of Modernity

Yaki Menschenfreund | Radical thinkers are all too eager to portray the Final Solution as a byproduct of Western rationality.

Of God's Love and Jealousy

Yehuda Liebes | The dangers of divine affection.

Hitler's Unwilling Partners

Boaz Neumann | Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany by Francis R. Nicosia

The War that Keeps on Teaching

Shmuel Rosner | Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam
by Gordon M. Goldstein

A Job Badly Done

Benjamin Kerstein | A Serious Man Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen

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