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Each year, nine out of ten Jews in Israel sit around a Seder table and recount the Exodus from Egypt. An event that occurred 3,500 years ago continues to ignite our imagination. This year, thousands more will join our tables having just arrived in Israel from Ukraine. People uprooted from their homes will be sitting together with those firmly rooted…

And the One Who Does Not Know How to Ask

And the one who does not know how to ask – You must open the conversation for him, as it is stated, “You shall tell your son on that day, saying, ‘Because of this Hashem did for me when I went out from Egypt’.” But perhaps the one who does not know how to ask is actually the evening’s most…

An inclusive Jewish nationalism opens itself to refugees

Some of the voices that have characterized Israeli nationalism in recent decades betray the memory of Egypt.
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An Inclusive Jewish Nationalism Opens Itself to Refugees

Some of the voices that have characterized Israeli nationalism in recent decades betray the memory of Egypt.
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2021 Jewish World Dialogue – Executive Summary

Evolving Israel-Diaspora Relations in the Context of Actualizing Israel’s 2018 Nation-State Law JPPI’s 2021 Jewish World Dialogue sought to aggregate the views of global Jewish leadership on how Sections 6 b and 6 c of Israel’s 2018 Basic Law: “Israel – The Nation-State of the Jewish People” should be actualized. In these two sections (6 b and 6c), Israel assumes…

The last of the ‘gedolim’

The haredi strategy is under attack, the signs of which are evident across the Israeli reality.

Will China repeat America’s mistakes in the Middle East?

Great Power Competition 2022: China a better Middle East Partner than America? On January 14, 2022, Beijing’s Global Times published a significant article: “Iranian FM visits China 4 days after GCC trip: China has no enemies, only friends in Middle East,” Other Chinese media picked up the story. Global Times is owned by the Communist Party’s People’s Daily. When China…

From Generation to Generation, Great Rabbis Come and Go – But the System Remains the Same

Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox society is built on a strict communal regime and the political and cultural apparatus that draws power from it. It’s a strong and successful system, within and without, meaning that any hope for change is a false hope. Without underestimating the objective greatness in Torah and religious observance of the last generation of great Lithuanian rabbis – gedolei…

The Advice I Gave Madeleine Albright When She Found Out She Was Jewish

She was a great American public servant, a lifelong proponent of human rights, and a constant ally of Israel — but to me Madeleine was also a dear friend