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Geopolitics

Israel’s confrontation with Hamas is a strategic wake-up call

Geopolitics
יהודי ארה"ב

The Jewish Camp of the Nine Percent

The Pew Research Center's new study of American Jews offers a wealth of data. Some of its findings are headline-making and can be expected to dominate the news, while others are more obscure. It is often the more obscure information that is truly important and interesting. Here I suggest examining one particular finding. The researchers examined the degree of connection…
יהודי ארה"ב
Haredim

Was the Coronavirus Year Really One of Deepening Polarization?

The past year presented Israeli society and its elected officials with quite a few challenges. Notable among them was a sense of polarization and (some maintain) hatred between different population sectors.
Haredim
Culture

Jewish Families Project

The past year was the year of television. The lockdowns, social isolation and extra free time strengthened a medium that has in any case flourished in recent years. And in the era of television, the year of television, it was also a shining time for Israel’s (relatively) new public TV channel Kan 11. In last month’s Israeli Academy of Film…
Culture

Climate Change and the Jewish Question

Despite everything they have in common, the Israeli Jewish experience differs greatly from the Diaspora Jewish experience. The two communities don't always have the same interests or find the same issues compelling, and they disagree on quite a few matters, both those relating to values and those relating to modes of action. Understanding these tensions in depth, and trying to…

Antisemitism and its Impact on Jewish Identity

Education

Israel Advocacy and Israel Education — Leadership Must Decide

The conflation of Israel advocacy and Israel education has resulted in growing numbers of North American Jews ill prepared to understand and negotiate the complexity of contemporary Israel.
Education
Israel-Diaspora Relations

The 2021 Israel Pluralism Index: Consensus and Disagreements

Editors: Noah Slepkov, Shmuel Rosner
Israel-Diaspora Relations
Antisemitism

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Yom HASHOAH, Holocaust Remembrance Day, is a solemn day in which we remember the six million Jews, including one and a half million children, along with millions of others who were victims of Nazi brutality who were murdered between 1933-1945; honor the 330,000 survivors worldwide, a third in Israel; and recognize how the absence of a Jewish state in which European Jews could take refuge directly contributed to the Shoah.
Antisemitism