Plans for National Museum of the Jewish People Take Shape Plus AJC controversy, movement (maybe) on Shalit, and more in the news Alleged criminal ties sully popular show, boost protest movement The women of the film, out of the corner, a generation later  | |  The Tel Aviv tent protesters say they speak for a nation demanding social justice. In truth, they're entitled yuppies who've finally found something worth fighting for: themselves. On an exceptionally humid Saturday evening last month, a modest assembly gathered in front of the Souraski Medical Center in Tel Aviv to protest on behalf of Israeli doctors, who are widely acknowledged to be underpaid and overworked. But the doctors' continued pleas for public support had nevertheless fallen on deaf ears: The masses had chosen to stay at home—at least for a few more hours. That same night, shortly after the underpaid doctors and their handful of supporters had packed up and left, tens of thousands of Israelis stormed into the public square at the entrance to the Tel Aviv Museum, only a few hundred yards away from the site of the earlier protest, to demonstrate against the rising costs of housing. Although the doctors' struggle for better wages elicits overwhelming public support, it apparently asked young Israeli protesters to do the one thing they are still unprepared for: acknowledge the interests of someone other than themselves. More  | Growing up in an observant home, Leah Caras loved reading magazines but felt that none spoke to her or her fellow Orthodox Jewish girls. So, when she was 13, she started her own: Yaldah. More BY Irin Carmon |  | The composer Richard Wagner was an anti-Semite, a German nationalist, and a genius. Performance of his music—masterworks like the "Ring" cycle and “Tristan und Isolde”—is effectively banned in Israel. Should it be? More | |
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