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Is there basis to Lavrov’s Comments on Hitler, Judaism and Antisemitism?

Russia's Sergei Lavrov said that Hitler was Jewish and that some of history's worst antisemites were Jewish.

Generalizing about All Arabs is as Bad as Antisemitic Generalizations

Generalizations are often made about Arabs in Israel, meaning Arab heroes get put in the same category as terrorists.

MK Yitzhak Pindrus the haredi bulldozer

Unless we cultivate a shared core value system for transmission to all Israeli students, the Haredi community’s values will continue to erode Israel’s democratic values

The BDS Pound of Flesh

Using lies and social pressure to force students to disavow Israel is a strategy aimed at raising the psychic and professional cost of being Jewish

The Israeli government must cooperate with J Street

On the issue of the Iranian nuclear threat, J Street may prove to be a particularly effective partner for Israel.
Pluralism

Shared Spaces, Challenging Spaces: What the findings of JPPI’s 2022 Pluralism Index survey reveal

The survey that forms the basis of the Jewish People Policy Institute’s Pluralism Index was conducted this year when Israel and the world were (and still are) under the shadow of the Covid pandemic, and on the eve of the outbreak of war in Ukraine.
Pluralism

Back from Berlin where every day was Holocaust Remembrance Day

Wherever we went, my husband – Israel's ambassador to Germany – and I, daughter of Shoah survivors, would encounter memorials

Mission impossible? Recovering Israel-American Jewish relations

Can we recover the bonds between the US Jewish community and Israeli Jews that characterized the first fifty years after Israel’s founding? The answer, frankly, is no. We must forge anew.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Israel reopens the question: Who was America’s best secretary of state?

It is interesting to review the list of outstanding secretaries of state and see how almost every one of them had to deal with Russia. Only a few managed not to do so. The lesson for Israel: what is good for them is not always what is good for us. Madeleine Albright had no chance of making the list of…