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SHANA TOVA – HAPPY NEW YEAR
Israel is a miraculous country globally admired for finding solutions against military threats to making breathtaking breakthroughsin medicine, science, and technology. We are not the “Start-Up Nation” by accident – We earned it!We owe it to ourselves to match these achievements in our political arena.May the sound of the shofar herald with the New Year also new beginnings –New understandings and New efforts to outreach and find solutionsleading to peace between peopleLay of the Land wishes you all a happy and healthy New Year.
Articles
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ELITISM AND THE JUDICIARY
Disentangling the toxic from merit-based judicial elitism
By Lawrence Nowosenetz
With insights and experience of being a former Acting Judge of the Hight Court in South Africa, the writer now living in Israel, weighs in on the judicial issues rocking this nation and beyond.
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TAKE A WEIGHT OFF YOUR MIND
What if your weight is not the real issue?
By Justine Friedman
Making “Losing Weight” the focus of your thoughts and efforts may cause you to “try crazy eating plans that are unsustainable.” Your most important steps are not on the scale advises the writer – a clinical dietician – but finding solutions best suited to you.
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LAW REFORM 101
Israel should avoid replicating South Africa’s National Party shenanigans
By Peter Bailey
While there might be little global precedent on the Reasonableness Law, there is certainly precedent material with regard to a democratically elected government trying to usurp the authority of a High or Supreme Court and the end result. The writer looks at the South African experience as a guide for Israel to avoid.
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HIGH ANXIETY
UNTIL 120 – A REALITY CHECK
A poem by Solly Kaplinski
Even something as mundane as riding on a bus, becomes in Jerusalem an existential experience. Is it paranoia or reality? The writer, a resident and commuter in Jerusalem, shares his observations, anxieties and intimate insights through a poem.
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