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Jewish Meditation Lecture III

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We are pleased to present the third in a series of four lectures given at the Jewish meditation retreat held at Kibbutz Hannaton in the Galil, March 11-17, 2012. Our third lecture is by Rabbi Joanna Katz. The main subject of this lecture is Discontent-Dis-Ease-Suffering and the value of turning towards it.

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Israel Inside

Israel Inside, hosted by former Harvard lecturer Tal Ben-Shahar, examines the core character strengths that have enabled Israelis to overcome challenges and turn a barren desert into a flourishing nation.

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A Musical Kabbalat Shabbat Celebration – Tel Aviv

  This Friday March 23rd at the “train station” Tachuna in Tel Aviv a gathering of 15  Jewish Israeli Emerging Communities. Food, Song, Drink and celebration. All invited!

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Significant difference between the Western notion of peace and the Hebrew concept of Shalom

PARSHAT KI TISA by Yehuda HaKohen. “HaShem spoke to Moshe, saying: `When you elevate the heads (take a census) of the Children of Israel according to their numbers, every man shall give HaShem an atonement for his soul when counting them, so that there will not be a plague among them when counting them.

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The International Community and the Middle East – Interview

The Israel Policy Forum presents a conversation with Warren Bass a senior fellow at the RAND Corporation, working on national security issues including the Middle East and counterterrorism. This conversation presents a point of view that is often not heard very much with the slinging of mud and arrows by the left and the right.

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Shimon Schocken Takes Us on the Ride of Hope

Shimon Schocken is the IDB Professor of Information Technologies and founding dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Israel. I want to thank my friend and contributor to israelseen, Shelly Schreter  for making me aware of this TED X lecture. רכיבות התקווה של שמעון שוקן

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