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Matanel Crossroad Seminar – In preparation for Israel’s centennial

The state of Israel and global Judaism are once again facing a crossroad: On the one hand, there is regrowth, rehabilitation, and revival, while on the other there is deterioration, embarrassment, and social and spiritual collapse. We therefore must start a thinking process that will attempt to present new and invigorating points of view, an infrastructure for a deep soul-search and inquiry.

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News from Jewish Brain in Hightech (JBH)

Jewish Brain in High-Tech (Formerly Avratech)

Yaakov just had his fifth child. He lives in Beitar, a city outside of Jerusalem. He wears traditional Hasidic garb. When Yaakov was 25 years old, he began his path to support his family. First, he enrolled in a “mechina,” a preparatory studies program, at a leading college. After completing a year of preparatory studies, he started studying computer science, which took him 3 and 1/2 years. During the time that Yaakov was studying, his family struggled financially.

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Paroles exquises

Joseph Chetrit

Paroles exquises : proverbes judéo-marocains sur la vie et la famille présente une première sélection de proverbes judéo-arabes recueillis auprès d’informateurs et d’informatrices nés dans différentes communautés juives du Maroc, de Taroudant jusqu’à Fès, Meknès et Sefrou en passant par Essaouira (Mogador) et le Tafilalet. Couvrant un vaste champ humain, familial et social, ce corpus illustre les interrogations, les incompréhensions et les doutes de l’homme face aux aléas et aux désordres de la condition humaine. Comme toute littérature parémique, il tente de donner des significations cohérentes, bien que contradictoires parfois, à l’instinct de vie, aux mécanismes de survie et aux stratégies de transmission et de continuation qui fondent toute société humaine.

The Saying of Matanel

Do not do to others what would be hateful if done to you. That is the whole of the Torah. All the rest is commentary. Now go and study.

Ethics of the Fathers, 2:7