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The State of Israel and the Jewish People in the Diaspora

The State of Israel and the Jewish People in the Diaspora

I believe that the time has come within Israeli internal politics for every sector and tribe to set aside the inter-sectoral conflicts of the past and to think about how we – together – can ensure the future of all Israeli citizens and the state’s continued connection with Diaspora Jewry.
03/05/2024
By: Pinchas Goldschmidt
Israeli Judaism: The Continuing Chapter in the Jewish Story

Israeli Judaism: The Continuing Chapter in the Jewish Story

Of all Zionism’s attainments, and of all that Israel has accomplished on the political, military, technological, and economic planes, history will remember, above all, the state’s cultural achievement: the creation of a climate that enabled the Jewish people to write a continuing chapter to the Jewish story.
03/05/2024
By: Micah Goodman
The Imperative of a Pluralistic, Jewish, and Democratic State of Israel

The Imperative of a Pluralistic, Jewish, and Democratic State of Israel

While I deeply believe that Israel should be a Jewish as well as democratic state, there are many ways to be a Jewish state without elevating one expression of Judaism over the others and denying the fundamental rights of so many Jewish citizens, and without denying non-Jewish citizens equal rights.
03/05/2024
By: Rick Jacobs
April 2024 – US Jews claim that discrimination against them has increased

April 2024 – US Jews claim that discrimination against them has increased

Campus protests heightened a sense of anti-Jewish discrimination in the U.S., while Jewish support for President Biden holds strong
02/05/2024
The State of Israel’s Values as a Jewish State

The State of Israel’s Values as a Jewish State

The phrase “Israel’s values as a Jewish and democratic state” reflects the uniqueness of the State of Israel and of Israeli society. We are not like all the nations; we are not like other states. We are a democracy, and our values are those of any democratic country. However, we are also a Jewish state, and are values are therefore the values of a Jewish state. Israeli society must contend with this duality.
01/05/2024
By: Aharon Barak
From Jewish State to “Jewish Supremacy”

From Jewish State to “Jewish Supremacy”

I am a concerned Israeli. I’m afraid that when the dispute over the values embodied in a Jewish state dissipates, we will end up with something much simpler, much cruder: Jewish supremacy; a supremacy based not on values or heritage, but on ethnicity. White supremacy in the United States, Jewish supremacy in Israel.
01/05/2024
By: Nahum Barnea
A State whose Everyday Life and Conduct Breathe Judaism

A State whose Everyday Life and Conduct Breathe Judaism

The “Jewish state” definition means a Jewish collective conducting its affairs in accordance with Jewish values and actualizing through the state the model of a people living in the public realm as a Jewish people.
01/05/2024
By: Menachem Brod
The Mission of the Jewish State

The Mission of the Jewish State

what is Israel’s mission as a Jewish state? To provide Jews with security in their national home, to strengthen Jewish existence around the world while aspiring to bring Jews abroad to Israel, and to set an example for other nations by demonstrating how a moral Jewish state takes an intelligent and inventive approach to the challenges posed by the complex world in which we all live.
01/05/2024
By: Naftali Bennett
What Zionism Lacks at 75: A Border

What Zionism Lacks at 75: A Border

The only way to avoid choosing between being either Jewish or democratic is for the conflict with the Palestinians to be resolved by providing the Palestinian people with the opportunity to fulfill their just collective right to self-determination in a separate state of their own.
01/05/2024
By: Jeremy Ben-Ami
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