Israel-Diaspora Relations

70 Years of Israel-Diaspora Relations: The Next Generation

JPPI’s 2018 Structured Jewish World Dialogue

 

70 Years of Israel-Diaspora Relations: The Next Generation

 

Project Heads: Shmuel Rosner and John Ruskay
Contributors: Noah Slepkov, Dov Maimon,
Dan Feferman, Uzi Rebhun, Adar Schieber
Editors: Barry Geltman and Rami Tal

 

70 Years of Israel-Diaspora Relations: The Next Generation
Photo by Eitan Elhadez-Barak/TPS

70 Years of Israel-Diaspora Relations: The Next Generation

The Israel-Diaspora dialogue should focus on reinforcing shared interests, creating joint projects, and identifying a shared and relevant cultural platform. A discourse that concentrates on distancing will itself produce distancing.

It is incumbent upon Israeli and Diaspora leaders to manage confrontations between them in a measured manner, and to refrain from statements that intensify feelings of alienation between the Diaspora and Israel. Well-managed interaction should be the basis for active participation in meaningful Israel-Diaspora dialogue.

Encounters and dialogue should be initiated between groups of Jews from different streams, and between people of differing opinions. “Liberal New York Jews with Rishon Likudniks and Shilo settlers” (as opposed to “liberal New York Jews with Tel Aviv liberals,” or “Borough Park Orthodox with Kiryat Arba settlers”).

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