By: Sergio Edelstein A great diversity of defiant dilemmas brings us to search in depth regarding the outstanding characteristics of the shaping and modeling process of a youth. An educational process brings him on a creation path, action and realization, when he is part of a framework of thought, profound, and truthful human creativity. I […]
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By: Tzvi (Quito) Hasson Since the end of the second decade of the twentieth century, when Hanoar Hatzioni was born, to this day, 80 years have passed, filled with substantial and vital sequences of events within Judaism and the Jewish people. Therefore, it is natural that our foundations and ideological positions had to face realities
From 1927 until today
Our ideological and educational bases Read More »
By: Sergio Edelstein Chaverim Shalom! I recived the dialogue developing within the Argentinean Tnua [Movement] concerning the relationship between the local Tnua and various community frameworks; I read it attentively. I do not wish to go into details regarding the specific points that were raised. I believe this is a very interesting subject and that
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By: Tzvi (Kito) Hasson — Tel Itzjak The summary of the demographic census and survey of the American Judaism was recently officially published by the central authority of the US Jewish communities. The US Jewish communities are the sole Jewish conglomerate that each decade carries out a demographic survey and publishes its results. The referenced
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During the last weeks I have had an exchange of ideas with one of the members of the Hakhshara group of the Movement who is in Israel today. Our dialog was about current ideological subjects and the subject of this title is one of them. Since the matter is of general interest, I have decided
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By: Yuval Nemirovsky We all know the festivity of Chanukah with the miracle of the 8 days and we have no problems to quickly identify the holiday as a Jewish holiday. We love to light the candles and we struggle not to eat many delicious “sufganiot” (Donuts). Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days,
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By: Miriam Mercado Every 25th of Kislev (?”? )????? ,begins the Hanukkah celebration. For eight days, we light the Hanukiah, play dreidel and eat sufganiyot and levivot. We tell with great pride and excitement the story of the triumph of the Maccabees and identify with their desire to fight for their ideals. We remember the
(We came to drive away the darkness…) By: Sergio Edelstein We come to illuminate in Hanukkah, similarly to the way we do all year round, with the educational process of the tnua. We come to drive away the darkness, the ignorance, the intransigence and the injustice. The act of illuminating means to be open-minded and
By: Yuval Nemirovsky The political system in Israel is not direct. The citizens do not vote for a candidate for the presidency or a prime minister, but rather they vote for political parties that form the Knesset. The Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, is composed of 120 members elected everyfour years by a system of proportional
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Source: “The Menorah” Author: Theodore Herzl, the Father of Political Zionism (1860-1904) … He held the candelabrum of Hanukkah in his hands and thought: “When had the primitive structure of this candelabrum first been devised? Obviously, its form had originally been derived from that of a tree: The sturdy stem in the center; four branches