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OP-ED: IS THE CHIEF RABBINATE BECOMING OBSOLETE?

The following is an op-ed originally published by the Jerusalem Post A recent report from the Religious Affairs Ministry, which oversees the Chief Rabbinate, points to a significant drop in Jewish Israeli couples marrying through their auspices, the only legal option for Israeli Jews. The report notes a 6.2% decrease in rabbinate marriages in 2018, and a similar trend from 2017 to…
18/02/2019

Time to Vote for a Bloc!

Israel is about to enter a hundred days of media-fueled madness, running through Election Day. The political roller-coaster is gunning its motor before taking Israelis on a wild ride full of surprises, leading up to the election of the national engine-driver. Before we get carried away by the colorful details of the plot however, we should turn our gaze away…
06/02/2019
Israeli And Diaspora Jews: ‘We Are Siblings, Not Cousins’
Identity and Education

Israeli And Diaspora Jews: ‘We Are Siblings, Not Cousins’

For an Israeli like me, the recent visit to Israel of 450 members of the Park Avenue Synagogue is very encouraging.
17/01/2019
Identity and Education

Observing the World from Our Own Perspective

The Hebrew University is weighing the idea of changing the language of instruction in some of its degree programs from Hebrew to English. This could be the first step towards making English the language of instruction for undergraduate degrees as well, first in the natural sciences and later in the humanities and social sciences. A decision by the Hebrew University…
17/01/2019

A Lethal Virus

The leaks from the police investigation, if corroborated, point to the sabotage of a critical national institution. If the judicial selection process proves to be infected by corrupt deals, and especially if the phenomenon turns out to be widespread, the possibility to rely on clear rules of the game and decision-making process in the conduct of our national debates will…
17/01/2019
Politico Interview with Amb. Stuart E. Eizenstat, JPPI Co-Chair

Politico Interview with Amb. Stuart E. Eizenstat, JPPI Co-Chair

By POLITICO STAFF 01/15/2019 05:24 AM EST How/where are you celebrating your birthday and with whom? “I will be at a corporate board meeting in London that day, but celebrated in two ways the weekend before: first, with my special friend Marion Ein Lewin, whose birthday is the day before; second, as a proud father and grandfather, watching my son…
15/01/2019
China, Israel, and the United States: Triangular Pressures
Asia

China, Israel, and the United States: Triangular Pressures

On December 31, 2018, JPPI Senior Fellow Dr. Shalom Wald discussed China – Israel relations, and their implications for US – Israel relations, in light of recent tensions between Washington and Beijing.
03/01/2019
Asia

When the Government Provides Religious Services

Israel is almost the only Western country that formally and institutionally provides its citizens with a long series of religious services, including kashrut supervision, ritual baths, burial, subsidies for Torah-based culture, spiritual counseling by local rabbis, religious marriage and divorce, conversion, and more. In all these domains, the State provides the funding and at the same time sets the standards…
03/01/2019

Two Democracies for Two Peoples

If in the past, we tended to speak about tensions in Israeli society in terms of Arabs and Jews, religious and secular, or Right and Left, the findings of the Israel Democracy Institute’s 2018 Israeli Democracy Index, released last week reveal a major new split: the split over Israeli democracy. In today’s Israel, the fundamental question that defines the state—what…
12/12/2018
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