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Three ways Israel can stop its passive-aggressive strategy

Ariel Beery — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:32:23 +0000

Surely if there is one thing we can all agree upon it is that Israel is losing the war for hearts and minds in the international community, and that its enemies have invested significantly to advance on all theaters of battle: on campuses, in international organizations, in the media. This has become especially apparent over [...]

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The Future Be Our Guide

Ariel Beery — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:18:13 +0000

Imagine you have to go to the supermarket to pick up a few things for your home. Seriously, take a moment and think: how would you get there? What do you need to bring with you? What sort of obstacles might you find in your path? Each of us makes a few dozen such calculations [...]

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Six years after recognizing Israel’s first woman rabbi

Ariel Beery — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:04:26 +0000

On the eve of Shavuot 2018, Jewish life in Israel is thriving. To mark the holiday of liberation, the New Sanhedrin has just met in Jerusalem. Delivering the customary Shavuot benediction is the Sanhedrin’s most recently appointed member, Rabbi Ruth Goldstein, who joined the council of 70 religious representatives from across the State of Israel [...]

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Israel must lead the 3D world

Ariel Beery — Wed, 23 May 2012 07:33:52 +0000

In January of 1995, Nicholas Negroponte wrote a book that changed my life: “Being Digital.” In the book, Negroponte, who founded MIT’s Media Lab, wrote that the future of our economy was going to be based on bits rather than atoms, and that this shift from physical manufacturing to digital engineering was going to create [...]

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June is Jewish Innovation Month

Ariel Beery — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:49:22 +0000

In a seemingly parallel world to the political messes of recent months, a new world is being born right before our eyes: a world born out of the visions of young Jewish social entrepreneurs around the world, over a hundred of which will be launching their ventures this June. So I hereby propose: let us [...]

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When pro-Israelism weakens Zionism

Ariel Beery — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:02:20 +0000

There are few democracies in this world as vibrant, and as combative, as Israel. If you read Hebrew and glance even once in a while at the Israeli press, you will find comments and criticism, complaints and corrections galore. Today especially, when the expected elections were delayed after a midnight meeting, these comments generally focus [...]

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Why live here?

Ariel Beery — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:59:56 +0000

At the end of January, two close friends, let’s call them Rachel and Jacob, decided to move from the Tel Aviv area to Boston. If you live in Israel and know Israelis with international passports, you probably know a similar story. Rachel, full of Zionist ideology and vision, had made aliya to Jerusalem, worked in organizations that [...]

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Yair Lapid: Carrying the torch of change?

Ariel Beery — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:12:52 +0000

Israelis agree on few things. But one thing they can all agree on is that the current political system is broken. The need for reform is discussed endlessly by government watch groups, as well as by some of the politicians themselves, but no one has been willing to lead by example. In part, this due to [...]

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Let Judaism thrive in the Jewish State

Ariel Beery — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:39:11 +0000

Imagine for a moment a Jewish State where Judaism thrives; a place where people explore the depths of our ancient tradition to understand core values that guide a better life, and apply our tradition’s wisdom to new challenges as they arise; a marketplace of ideas, of values, of practices; a place where the wise men [...]

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The Rabbinate vs the Jewish State

Ariel Beery — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:11:49 +0000

There is a country in this world where a Jewish female soldier is barred from leading prayer in the local house of worship, where the family of a fallen soldier is forbidden to hold a Jewish funeral according to its custom, and where it is illegal for some Jews to be married. If this country [...]

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