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Two Democracies for Two Peoples

If in the past, we tended to speak about tensions in Israeli society in terms of Arabs and Jews, religious and secular, or Right and Left, the findings of the Israel Democracy Institute’s 2018 Israeli Democracy Index, released last week reveal a major new split: the split over Israeli democracy. In today’s Israel, the fundamental question that defines the state—what…
12/12/2018
The new (literary) engagement with Israel
Culture

The new (literary) engagement with Israel

Is American Jewry estranged from Israel? Recent novels by Krauss, Safran Foer, and Englander prove just the opposite Nathan Englander’s latest novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth (2017) culminated in a romantic union. The lovers in the novel, an Israeli Jew and a Palestinian Muslim, are forced to hold their assignation in an underground tunnel beneath the Gaza…
12/12/2018
Culture
Answer our survey and see where you land on the map of Israeli Judaism

Answer our survey and see where you land on the map of Israeli Judaism

This is an English translation of the #IsraeliJudaism Project questionnaire, which was created as part of JPPI’s Pluralism Project, supported by the William Davidson Foundation. On the basis of these questions, Prof. Camil Fuchs developed a new model to represent the structure of Jewish society in Israel. Once you have answered all the questions, you can see where you are…
12/11/2018
By: Shmuel Rosner, Professor Camil Fuchs, Noah Slepkov

Beit Shemesh and Tel Aviv

Beit Shemesh is a highly unlikely choice from the outset. It has been the scene of an intensive struggle for control of the public space, pitting the ultra-Orthodox against the town’s secular and religious Zionist residents. The conflict is not just a matter of ideology, but also of practice. Ugly and aggressive exclusion of women is common. Especially notorious are…
08/11/2018

Faith and the City

What complicates the relationship even more is that some of the religion-state arrangements and “deals” are not made on the national level, but rather–locally. And so, every mayor in the country can have a real impact not only on the public space in his or her own town but also on politics and this relationship at the national level. This…
01/11/2018
Jewish Journal/JPPI Podcast

Jewish Journal/JPPI Podcast

A co-production of The Jewish Journal and JPPI. Shmuel Rosner hosts JPPI scholars and other guests for a weekly conversation about the US, Israel and the Jewish world.
15/10/2018
Rising Streams: Reform and Conservative Judaism in Israel
Identity and Education

Rising Streams: Reform and Conservative Judaism in Israel
14/10/2018
By: Dan Feferman
Identity and Education
On Genetics and Jewish History
Science and Technology

On Genetics and Jewish History

Conference on Genomics – From Disease Prevention to Treatment, Population, Medicine and Society, Haifa, Technion and Clalit Health Fund, 2-5 Oct. 2018 During the first international conference on this subject, which took place in Haifa in 2016, I deplored the gap between the fast advancing genetic sciences and Jewish historiography. Historians should have discovered the human genome as a new…
02/10/2018
Science and Technology

Are We Guilty? Are We Traitors?

Israel’s national clock is about to strike on the ‘Days of Awe’, a time of soul searching and reckoning. This is most clearly expressed in the classic confession – “We have been guilty, we have betrayed, we have robbed, we have slandered” – the main theme of the Yom Kippur service. The confession, a deliberate self-criticism, is based on two…
17/09/2018
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