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  • The Ariel Cultural Center: a crucible for Israeli democracy

    The following is a post I wrote originally for the Project Democracy blog - an ACRI initiative that aims to raise awareness of the threats posed by the current government and society to Israel's democratic culture. Back in 1941, shortly after the United States entered World War Two, President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously articulated the Four Freedoms in his State of the Union address, as a means of describing the essential democratic values for which Americans were being asked to fight. Roosevelt's freedoms are: 1) Freedom of speech and expression 2) Freedom of worship 3) Freedom from want 4) Freedom…

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