1 This chapter is partly based on the JPPI 2016 Book by Shalom Salomon Wald and Arielle Kandel, India, Israel and the Jewish People.
2 Indian President Expresses Support for Independent Palestine, Haaretz, Oct.12, 2015.
3 Karl Marx, Der achtzehnte Brumaire des Louis Napoleon, 1851/1852, 1. Gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/der-achtzehnte-brumaire-des-louis-napoleon-4983/1. Translation from the German by the author.
4 V.S. Naipaul, India: A Million Mutinies Now, London: Vintage Books, 1991.
5 OECD Economic Policy Papers 03: Looking to 2060: Long-term global growth prospects – A going for growth report, OECD, November 2012, 22.
6 The 2016 OECD Economic Survey of Israel, OECD 31.Jan. 2016, provides a critical review if Israel’s “political economy”.
7 See Shimon Lev, Soulmates – The Story of Mahatma Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach, New Delhi: Orient Black Swan, 2012, 116 ff.
Article Library / 2016
2016 Annual Assessment
- Foreword
- Part 1
- Part 2: Dimensions of Jewish Well-Being
- Geopolitics
- An Opportunity for a Geopolitical Adjustment
- State-Level Anti-BDS Legislative Initiatives – Overview and Recommendations
- Comprehensive Three-Dimensional Index on anti-Semitism in Europe
- India and Israel
- Two Years since Narendra Modi’s Election Victory
- One Man’s Whim – or Long-Term Forces of History?
- Why is India important? The Numbers
- India’s Soft Power Assets
- India’s Quest for Great Power Status
- Fast Growing Links with the Middle East
- Energy and Economic Links with the Middle East
- Islam: India’s Historical and Cultural Bonds with the Muslim Middle East
- Steady Growth of Indo-Israeli Relations
- A Dearth of Information and Cultural Links
- The India-Israel-Jewish People Triangle
- Endnotes
- Demography
- Bonds Within and Between Communities
- Identity Formation and Expression
- What are the Main Components of Jewishness? Results of JPPI Surveys
- After the Zionist Revolution: Patterns of Jewish Collective Identity among Israeli Jews
- Religious Zionism in Israel Today: Toward the Center
- Introduction
- The Drive Toward Political and Moral Leadership
- The Disengagement from Gaza and the Face-to-Face Project
- Integral Nationalism
- The Historical Antecedents for the Contemporary Jewish Home Party
- Religious Zionists in the Likud
- Jewish Home Control of the Ministries of Education and Justice
- Religious Zionists in the Army
- Religious Zionists in the Mainstream Electronic Media
- The Reduction in Religiosity
- Being Less Sectarian and Religious Increases the Impact and Appeal of Religious Zionism
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
- Material Resources
- People of the Book
- Geopolitics
- Part 3: Feature Articles
- Orthodox Jews in the United States
- Introduction
- Varieties of Orthodox Judaism
- The Hasidic Community
- The Yeshivish Community
- Heimish Jews
- The Modern Orthodox Community
- The Sephardic Community
- Chabad-Lubavitch
- The Challenge of Orthodox Growth to Mainstream Jewish Organizations
- General Education
- Citizenship
- Individual Rights
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
- French Aliyah: Governmental Efforts and Recommendations
- Successful absorption is the key to encouraging Aliyah
- Assessing the potential: 200,000 French Jews are considering immigration to Israel
- Socio-Cultural Profile of French Olim
- Employment prospects and Aliyah
- Employment Prospects and Aliyah
- Implementing Government Resolutions
- Additional Efforts Required in the Employment Sphere
- Employment and businesses
- Housing and Communal Life
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
- Austrian Jewry 70+ Years after the Shoah
- Introduction
- Communal Framework
- Demography
- Leadership
- From “Sitting on Packed Suitcases” to “Feeling at Home”
- External Representation – Changing Relationship with the Gentile Surroundings
- Restitution
- Changes in the Austrian Shoah Introspection
- Jewish Group Identity
- Infrastructure and Jewish Life
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
- Orthodox Jews in the United States
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