Reserve Duty

Engaging before disengaging By Arik Glasner At the central bus station in Be'er Sheva, as I'm waiting with dozens of soldiers for a bus to Tze'elim, a balding guy with a receding chin and lips that seem to stick out in childlike defiance seeks me out. "I'm not doing this reserve duty," he says to [...]

Nationalism – Personal Account

NATIONALISM   A. In the 1992 elections I voted for the NRP (National Religious Party).  I was 19 then (I’m from the children of the summer of 1973, those about whom a song has NOT been written).  I studied at the advanced yeshiva in Beit El , and although in the eyes of a son [...]

Thoughts of a Security Guard

Thoughts of a Security Guard Arik Glasner     1. August 2003-october 2003 (or: Etiology)       In our society, people holding a weapon are powerless people. I, too, was granted powerlessness when I received my light blue uniform in November 2003 and began working as a security guard at the Tel Aviv University [...]

Yosef Chaim Brenner’s view of Jewish Culture and the Zionist Revolution

Wise Old Men and Rebellious Youth:  Yosef Chaim Brenner’s view of Jewish Culture and the Zionist Revolution; A proposal for a revised conception of Brenner’s world-view through a Jungian reexamination of his work A.  Suppose we were to compare the appearance of the Zionist Revolution on the stage of the Jewish world, with a familial [...]

Israeli Satire

By Arik Glasner   From the beginning of the 1990s a permanent sub-headline accompanied the satirical  section of Nekuda, the journal of the settlers. "There is no satire on the right," it  said with manifest irony. It also reflected the feeling of inferiority of some  right-wing activists about the standing allegation against them. In the [...]