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What Would We Choose at the Moment of Truth – Judaism or Democracy?

So long as we regard the state’s religious character as a matter of the identity of the state itself, no subpopulation can sit down at the discussion table with true willingness for compromise. Yet if we agree with the contention that the state is an apparatus meant to ensure the Jewish people’s survival and continuity, then the discussion ceases to be one of values and becomes, instead, one of means, i.e. – what are the means that will serve this end without undercutting the state’s other functions as a democratic state?
Sunday May 5, 2024
By: Natan Sharansky | Rachel Sharansky Danziger
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About the Center for Jewish-Israeli Identity

Jewish identity underlies the sense of belonging shared by members of the Jewish people. Recognition of Jewish “connection” is a necessary condition for Jewish cohesion, solidarity, and mutual responsibility.
Wednesday February 7, 2024
Photo by Eitan Elhadez-Barak/TPS

About the Center for Jewish-Israeli Identity

Jewish identity underlies the sense of belonging shared by members of the Jewish people. Recognition of Jewish “connection” is a necessary condition for Jewish cohesion, solidarity, and mutual responsibility.
Tuesday April 9, 2024

About the Center for Jewish-Israeli Cohesion

One of the greatest threats to the Jewish people in our time is the internal discord among Jews.
Wednesday February 7, 2024

About the Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Information and Consulting Center

JPPI’s Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Information and Consulting Center is utilizing cutting-edge technologies and Israel’s best technological minds to collect, analyze, and disseminate relevant data about Jewish life in Israel and the Diaspora.
Wednesday February 7, 2024
US Jewry

One, Two, or Three Jewish Identities among Jewish Americans?

Credit: pio3/Shutterstock.com The recently published Pew report, Jewish Americans in 2020, points to a somewhat disturbing reality within US Jewry: two polar opposite forms of being Jewish and of Jewish identity are growing on the margins of the Jewish community. These forms are especially growing in the younger age cohorts, and they are becoming increasingly significant. Both differ from what…
Tuesday June 1, 2021
By: Dr. Shlomo Fischer
US Jewry
Swords of Iron

The dangerous fantasy of independence from the US

Frustrating as it may be, Israel’s defense sector can’t fill in the supply gaps opened by months of high-intensity warfare
Tuesday January 23, 2024
By: Dr. Shuki Friedman
Swords of Iron
Geopolitics

The Saudi Plan of Shimon Peres

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of our prominent statesmen, the former Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs writes about how he thinks Shimon Peres would have forged a normalization agreement with Saudi Arabia.
Wednesday August 2, 2023
By: Avi Gil
Geopolitics
Pluralism

2017 Pluralism Index – Press Release

Jewish People Policy Institute Pluralism Index:
Thursday April 20, 2017
Pluralism
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