The Status Quo
Aviezer Ravitzky
1997
[…] Must we conclude that Israeli society is doomed to experience a Kulturkampf, and that the Zionist synthesis is marching ineluctably toward its undoing?1 Before answering that question, let us rephrase it in more sober terms. Let us ask why the arrangements that seemed to work well enough in years past are no longer sufficient, and why they are…
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