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Jewish or Democratic? We Mustn’t Choose Between Them

The recent elections were waged to a large extent over the issue of the relations between religion and state. As is often the case in election campaigns, this one exacerbated the already acute tensions that this issue routinely arouses, and demonstrated that even after 70 years Israel is still in the throes of a fierce conflict on the very character…
26/09/2019

In Praise of Normalcy

Israelis woke up depressed when it became apparent that the rerun election had not produced a clear winner, and that the political system remained paralyzed. But when the dust settles, it may turn out that there was indeed a winner after all, one that rises far above all the squabbling parties: normalcy. First, the overall picture is that democracy has…
26/09/2019

The Project

Two questions are at the heart of the JPPI project: What kind of balance is desirable, and possible, as a means of alleviating the tension between Israel as a “Jewish state” and Israel as a “democratic state”? And: How can this balance be translated into everyday life in Israel? The assumption underlying these questions is that Israel’s unique character and…
16/09/2019
2019 Annual Assessment

2019 Annual Assessment

Global Trends and Policy Recommendations Integrated Anti-Semitism Index: Europe and the US Special Chapters: Jewish Creativity and Cultural Outputs PROJECT HEAD Shmuel Rosner Contributors Avinoam Bar-Yosef, Dan Feferman, Shlomo Fischer Avi Gil, Inbal Hakman, Michael Herzog, Dov Maimon, Gitit Paz-Levi, Steven Popper, Uzi Rebhun, John Ruskay, Noah Slepkov, Adar Schiber, Rami Tal, Shalom Salomon Wald EDITOR Barry Geltman
16/09/2019

Solidarity is a Must for the Survival of the Jewish people

In The Jewish War, the historian Josephus Flavius attributes the Jews’ defeat by the Romans and the destruction of Jerusalem to the internal conflicts among the Jews, both outside and especially inside, Jerusalem. Then, as now, the Jewish people were divided between the Land of Israel and the Diaspora, and the domestic disagreement had an impact on the entire Jewish…
11/08/2019

Is Israel like Iran? Hardly

Recently a report about religion in public life, which examined religious coercion and the limits on freedom of religion worldwide, was published in the US. On a number of parameters, Israel was placed in unsavory company, somewhere between Iran and Afghanistan. So are we Iran? Not really. The report builds “dry” parameters that are applied to different countries in an…
28/07/2019

Jewish Identity is Highly Explosive: Handle with Care

The appalling turn of phrase recently used by Israel’s Minister of Education Rabbi Peretz to describe Jewish assimilation as a “second Holocaust,” once again brings to the fore the question of Jewish identity from a moral and systemic perspective, in all its complexity. Unlike other issues of “religion and state,” this one concerns not only those who live in Israel,…
15/07/2019
Presentation of the 2019 Annual Assessment Executive Summary to Israeli Cabinet

Presentation of the 2019 Annual Assessment Executive Summary to Israeli Cabinet

The Jewish People Policy Institute Presents Israeli Cabinet with Executive Summary of its  2019 Annual Assessment of the Situation and Dynamics of the Jewish People
01/07/2019

Miriam Naor Speech on the Occasion of Receiving an Honorary Doctorate from Hebrew U

A Lecture Presented to the Hebrew University Board of Governors by JPPI Board Member Miriam Naor on the Occasion of Receiving an Honorary Doctorate. The tension between the judiciary branch on the one hand and the legislative branch and the executive branch on the other hand exists in every democratic country around the globe. This tension is natural. It derives…
17/06/2019
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