2018 Annual Assessment

• Foreword
• PART 1: Suggested Policy Directions, Integrated Net Assessment
  • Dilemmas and Policy Directions
  • 2018 Integrated Net Assessment
    • Community Bonds
    • Geopolitics
    • Demography
    • Identity Formation and Expression
    • Material Resources
  • Selected Indicators of World Jewry 2018
• PART 2: Dimensions of Jewish Well-Being
  • Geopolitics
    • Navigating Stormy Geopolitical Arenas
      • Introduction
      • The International System: U.S. status and performance and the implications for Israeli strategic resilience
      • The Regional System: threats and opportunities
      • Iran
      • Hezbollah
      • Syria
      • ISIS
      • Saudi Arabia
      • Egypt
      • Jordan
      • Turkey
      • The Palestinian Arena
      • The “Ultimate Deal”
      • Hamas
      • The Jerusalem-Washington-American Jewry Triangle
      • The American Side of the Triangle
      • The Triangle’s Jewish Side
      • Summary
      • Endnotes
    • Anti-Semitism after 70 Years of Sovereignty
      • Concern in Europe, Enmity in Muslim World and Vigilance in the United States
      • The New Polish Law and the Awakening of National Identity in East Central Europe
      • The Israeli Response
      • Anti-Semitism in the United States
      • Comprehensive Three-Dimensional Anti-Semitism Index The Need for an Integrated Index
      • Recommendations to the Government of Israel Regarding Future Attempts in Eastern Europe to Pass Legislation that Disavows Complicity with Nazi Germany During the Holocaust
      • Endnotes
    • Israel’s Long Road to Asia
  • Demography
    • Israel’s Contribution to Strengthening the Jewish People
  • Bonds Within and Between Communities
    • The State of Israel: The View from the U.S.
    • Beyond the Distancing Discourse: Israel in American Jewish Culture
      • Introduction
      • Israel from its Founding to the 1970s
      • The 1970s: Israeli Machismo
      • 1990-2005: Stirrings of Criticism
      • 2005 and Beyond: An Israeli Renaissance in American-Jewish Literature
      • Conclusion: Complexity, not Disconnection
      • Bibliography
      • Endnotes
  • Identity and Identification
    • The Nation-State Law and Israeli Society
    • Jewish Identity in Israel in its 70th Year
      • A Note to the Reader on Terminology
      • Introduction
      • Judaism in Blue and White
      • The State of Israel: A Replacement of Jewish Ethno-Religious Identity or a Fulfillment of It?
      • Endnotes
    • Pluralism and Relations between Groups in Israel
    • Haredi Society: Where to?
      • Educational and Occupational Integration: Who Sets the Conditions?
      • Pragmatic Measure, or Expression of a Pluralistic Worldview?
      • Changing the Rules of the Majority-Minority Game: Who is Threatening Whom?
      • Challenges and Recommendations
      • Endnotes
    • The Reform and Conservative Movements in Israel
  • Material Resources
    • After 70 Years: Examining US Philanthropy to the American Jewish Community and to Israel
      • Small Giving: The essential and underappreciated currency of American Jewish life
      • The Connection between the World Jewish Economy and the Economy of Israel
      • Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell
      • Icing on the Cake – or Something More?
      • Endnotes
  • People of the Book
    • The Innovation Challenge
• Part 3: Featured Articles
  • Latin American Jews: Changing Horizons and New Challenges
    • Israel, Jewish Education, and Jewish Educational Trips to Israel
    • Criticism of Israel, Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism
    • Recommendations