In the Media
Don’t Give Up on the Two-State Solution
By: Dennis Ross and David Makovsky, The American Interest, July 14, 2020 Unilateral Israeli annexation would be a mistake, but Peter Beinart’s one-state solution is an approach that compounds one mistake with another. We wrote our book, Be Strong and of Good Courage, because we feared that the path Israel was on would lead to a one-state outcome. By default, continuing to…
Asia
Asia
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu’s landmark visit to India
This article was originally published in the Sunday Guardian, India On January 14th, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in India, for a four-day state visit that will take him to Delhi, Gujarat, Prime Minister Modi’s home state and Mumbai. At the airport Modi gave him a royal welcome. No living Israel leader has done more to forge a…
Pluralism
Pluralism
JBS: Pluralism in Israel
On Israel’s Independence Day, Noah Slepkov, a fellow at The Jewish People Policy Institute, discusses results of a survey from across Israeli society on identity, religious beliefs and coexistence. With Teisha Bader of the Jewish Broadcasting Service.
Europe's Jewry
Europe's Jewry
French Election: Fillon May Have Lost in France, but He Won in Israel
By Judy Maltz, Haaretz Despite the long lines evident outside polling stations around Israel on Sunday, figures made available by French diplomats in the country show that voter turnout among French-Israelis in the first round of the presidential election was no higher than usual and that the conservative Republican Francois Fillon was by far the preferred candidate among the four…
Pluralism
Pluralism
Most Israeli Arabs Wouldn’t Live With Jews but Want Their Children to Study With Them, Study Says
By Judy Maltz, Haaretz
Pluralism
Pluralism
JPPI Survey: Israeli Jews and Arabs Happy to Live in Israel, Just Not Together
By JNi.Media
Geopolitics
Geopolitics
Rising nationalism vs globalization and how it affects the Jews
By Gol Kalev, The Jerusalem Post In 1895, as he was crafting his vision for a Jewish state, Theodor Herzl wrote: “In my observations, I stared at the phenomenon of the crowd for a long time without understanding it.” Next week, with a Jewish state a firm reality, some of the world’s leading Jewish thinkers will gather in Jerusalem to…
Jewish Communities Worldwide
Jewish Communities Worldwide
New JPPI Report: Jewish Community Undergoes Radial Change
A new report by the Jewish People Policy Institute “Exploring the Jewish Spectrum in a Time of Fluid Identity” analyzes the changing Jewish community and sets forth concerted recommendations which can serve as points of departure for leadership deliberation. Recommendations include that Jewish communal groups work to strengthen the sense of “Jewish Peoplehood” among individuals from mixed Jewish/non-Jewish families and…