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Absorption and its Difficulties

Absorption and its Difficulties

The religious establishment in Israel relates to the entire aliyah from the FSU with suspicion and hostility and their every meeting with religious institutions from birth to death is fraught with difficulties. Those of us who are Jewish according to Halacha have to undergo a humiliating process with the rabbinate to prove our Judaism.
05/05/2024
By: Alex Rif
To Be a Free Nation in Our Land …

To Be a Free Nation in Our Land …

Now that Israel is long past the founding stage and its story has ceased to be that of a powerless minority, it would do well to reacquaint itself with the positive aspects of Weizmannism – an exemplary, measured, moral, and self-confident approach oriented toward promoting a diverse Jewish-Israeli identity through ongoing dialogue, rather than via the political power of an orthodoxy extremist in the identity or the political spheres
05/05/2024
By: Motti Golani and Jehuda Reinharz
What Israel Means to Me

What Israel Means to Me

The Jewish state must remain a democratic, pluralistic one. To be Jewish but not democratic is an inherent contradiction. Nothing would betray Jewish values more than for Israel to surrender its democratic identity.
05/05/2024
By: Dennis Ross
Things We See from There: What I Discovered When We Went to the United States for a Year

Things We See from There: What I Discovered When We Went to the United States for a Year

We may complain about the Israeli education system, and there’s certainly room for improvement, but let’s imagine what would happen if the Israeli-Jewish knowledge base that our education system transmits to students were available to all American Jews as well.
05/05/2024
By: Sivan Rahav-Meir
The Triple Thread: On Hebrew Culture as a Connecting Identity

The Triple Thread: On Hebrew Culture as a Connecting Identity

Establishing the state’s identity as a cultural identity in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence would prevent divisiveness and hostility, and enable all Jewish communities in Israel and abroad to join forces for the building of a nation-state for the Jewish people in Eretz Israel.
05/05/2024
By: Ruth Calderon
Israel as an Inspiration

Israel as an Inspiration

Israel’s path to the confident Jewish State it is today was not predictable. And in critical ways, without America’s friendship and support, it would not have happened at all. But America’s soul and America’s spirit owes much to the biblical roots of the Jewish people.
05/05/2024
By: Howard Kohr
A Spiritually Feminine Perspective

A Spiritually Feminine Perspective

There’s something about the Land of Israel. An invisible tether which tugs every Jew toward our homeland, and as a student, professional, wife, mother, and grandmother, my home is always there for me when I need it.
05/05/2024
By: Rachel “Ruchie” Freier
Feeling at Home in a Jewish and Democratic Israel

Feeling at Home in a Jewish and Democratic Israel

If Israel leans sharply toward one “side” and greatly disfavors one of these two pillars – Jewishness or democracy – it will lose its distinct moral character. It must be agreed that these values-based pillars will continue to serve as a robust basis for any structure built upon them.
05/05/2024
By: Shuki Friedman
A Jewish State: The State the Jewish People Deserves

A Jewish State: The State the Jewish People Deserves

The State of Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, whose character determines the character of the state. This character is the basic common denominator of the “people who dwell in Zion.” If we so merit, then the minorities among us, minorities that are not Jewish, will become attached to that vision out of respect and appreciation. If not, we will have to improve.
05/05/2024
By: Yehoshua Pfeffer
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