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Personal Holocaust, Personal Responsibility

The answer — both simple but also heavy and complex — is personal responsibility. The Holocaust is a Jewish, nationalist and personal event that somehow impacts or relates to every other tragedy we have experienced in human history. The extent of the Holocaust — and its roots in satanic, anti-Semitic ideology — is something we must remember forever, so as…
Europe's Jewry

French Election: Fillon May Have Lost in France, but He Won in Israel

By Judy Maltz, Haaretz Despite the long lines evident outside polling stations around Israel on Sunday, figures made available by French diplomats in the country show that voter turnout among French-Israelis in the first round of the presidential election was no higher than usual and that the conservative Republican Francois Fillon was by far the preferred candidate among the four…
Europe's Jewry
Pluralism

Most Israeli Arabs Wouldn’t Live With Jews but Want Their Children to Study With Them, Study Says

By Judy Maltz, Haaretz
Pluralism
Pluralism

JPPI Survey: Israeli Jews and Arabs Happy to Live in Israel, Just Not Together

By JNi.Media
Pluralism
Pluralism

2017 Pluralism in Israel Index

 
Pluralism
Pluralism

2017 Pluralism Index – Press Release

Jewish People Policy Institute Pluralism Index:
Pluralism
Antisemitism

Op-Ed: Criticism of Israel is not Anti-Semitic – But it Quickly Leads There

This article was first published by EJP- European Jewish Press A controversial anti-Israel conference held recently at University College Cork in Ireland, raised once again an old debate over when criticism of Israel is legitimate, and when it is a thin cover for deeply rooted anti-Semitism. This debate is important because to effectively combat anti-Semitism and protect Europe’s Jewish communities, it is…
Antisemitism

The Festival of Freedom and Responsibility

You do not need to be Orthodox or traditional to perceive a seminal ethos in the story. Indeed, Theodor Herzl and David Ben-Gurion, the outstanding leaders of political Zionism who were devoid of any trace of tradition, gave much thought to the story of the exodus and used it to promote their national vision. Many non-Jews, too, had an intense…

Passover: Nationalism, Freedom and Humanism

The Exodus from Egypt is what brought Israelites their freedom and made them into a nation. It also gave them a responsibility toward the “other.” The precept to love the stranger, foreigner and minority all originated in Egypt. Nationalism was thus a positive force in the building of the Jewish nation, as well as the entire family of nations. However,…