Eretz Acheret is an Israeli NGO comprised of people from different sectors of society with a broad range of backgrounds and personal beliefs. The goal of this website is to provide Israeli and Diaspora Jews with a platform for open discourse and dialogue on all facets of the Israel-Diaspora relationship, as well as the opportunity to express their identity through the written word.
 
Wake-up Call for the National-Religious Population
By: Chen Golan  |  27/11/2012
The social protest is the first expression of the coming together of a new Israeli public. Chen Golan, a member of Kibbutz Naaran in the Jordan Valley and a member of the Graduates of Machanot Ha-Olim movement, calls on the religious population to join this most important national struggle.
From Bitter Desperation to Mobilized Desperation
By Ronit Levi  |  27/11/2012
Encapsulated within the protest is the potential to renew values. The protest is the embodied desire to reassert the equality of human beings as a foundation of our lives, and to take responsibility for ourselves and our society – its image and its values. Ronit Levi, a member of Kibbutz Naaran and of the Graduates of ...
The Death of “Torah ve-Avodah”
By Bambi Sheleg  |  27/11/2012
The religious Zionist camp is not participating in the social protests, and ignoring the people involved and the topics raised. Bambi Sheleg writes about the processes that brought about this situation and questions whether a change in this trend is likely.
In Defense of Normaley
By Bezalel Cohen  |  29/08/2012
Bezalel Cohen, a graduate of the Ponevezh Yeshiva, traveled to the U.S. to learn firsthand about haredi (ultra-Orthodox) life in America. The journey strengthened his belief in the ability to combine a full haredi lifestyle with intellectual openness and involvement in all spheres of life
Five brothers set out on a journey
By Eyal Nave  |  14/02/2012
As the Western core disappears, the United States is becoming an anti-multicultural mosaic, a fact that does not sit with the unique identity of the Jews, since right now Jews are part of the Western core. On the fading of Jewish identity against the backdrop of fading Western identity
Outburst
By Bambi Sheleg  |  27/09/2011
The demonstrations on our streets during the summer are testament to the existence of a new group forming in our midst, a public that is not defined by the societal parameters that molded us until now. This new public does not think in terms of social sectors, and it is detached from the current political system. How d...
Speech at the “400,000 Protest” on Saturday night
By Bambi Sheleg  |  06/09/2011
Good evening everyone. The Jewish State was founded on a dream, an ancient dream of the Jewish people to return to the land of its ancestors and to reclaim autonomy that was destroyed two thousand years ago. But this ancient dream contains another component that is no less important: to establish a society that is ...
The Soul That Is Inside the Landscape
By Zvi Lachman  |  23/05/2011
While studying aerial photos during one of his periods of reserve duty with the Israel Defense Forces in the desert, Michael Kovner realized that it is possible to use actual landscapes in order to paint abstractly. Sculptor Zvi Lachman discusses with Kovner the relationship between internal and external landscapes
The Democratic Individual versus the Jewish Individual
By Rony Klein  |  16/05/2011
The major enigma of the 20th century – How did a democratic state enable the rise of the Nazi individual? – has not yet been solved. The French-Jewish philosopher Shmuel Trigano proposes that we return to the ideology of the Enlightenment and that we examine its fundamental assumptions.
The Love Affair between Commerce and Art
By Rodi Bineth  |  01/05/2011
With the prices of works of contemporary art increasing at an unprecedented rate and with multiculturalism undermining the foundations of the traditional criteria for assessing quality, the value of an artistic creation is measured today primarily by the price that can be obtained for it in the marketplace
Journey to the End of an Era
By Bambi Sheleg  |  14/04/2011
Our world is about to change dramatically. New centers of power are about to emerge. A change is about to take place in value systems. Impressions of a coast-to-coast visit to America
Why I returned to Zionism
By Boaz Neumann  |  11/04/2011
Dr. Boaz Neumann, who teaches German history at Tel Aviv University, conducted an independent study on the Halutz (Zionist pioneer) movement. The study’s results led him to abandon his post-Zionist views, which were scathingly critical of the Jewish state
‘We have lost our values”
By Micha Odenheimer  |  31/03/2011
“I admit that there were times in my life that I have been absolutely seduced by the market, and by Ayn Rand, but that is fading from me and I no longer believe that that is man’s highest vision. And what is? The Noble Jewish vision is the highest vision”. An Interview with Michael Steinhardt
The Protocols Go On – Blog
By Agata Peleszuk  |  31/03/2011
The Moscow prosecutor refused to ban one of the well-known anti-Semitic pamphlets, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”. This move contradicts an official narrative of Kremlin which openly commits itself to struggle the anti-Semitism in Russia.
Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  31/03/2011
It happens from time to time, mostly by surprise, that on my way I pass by a street called "Judengasse" or "Judenstrasse". In Germany, in Austria and in Switzerland it's common, but also in France there is "Route de Juif" and "Jews walk" "Jews row" or "Jews la...
Letter from London – Pessimism has its place, but it doesn’t define the Jewish condition
By Antony Lerman  |  31/03/2011
Shalom Aleichem said: ‘April Fool is a joke—repeated 365 times a year.’ Does this encapsulate the uniqueness of Jewish pessimism? History has been so awful, so often, it’s like a cruel joke being continually visited upon us. It makes you realise why Shalom Aleichem also reportedly said: ‘God, I know we are your chosen ...
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