There is a natural tendency, when discussing political extremism and polarization, to assume that the extreme Right and the extreme Left are mirror images of one another. In so doing, one appears evenhanded, even broadminded, able to accept that one’s own side’s extremists are as bad as those of the other side. But today’s extreme Left and Right in the…

The US vs China: Confrontation Continues in 2021

A culture of to-and-fro is not only respected in Jewish custom, it is positively sanctified. . .We know we are not weakened by debate; we are strengthened by it. Today, however, I fear this is a lesson we need to learn afresh. –Israel President Reuven Rivlin, Forward, 8 February 2021 Talmudic discourse shows that Jews are encouraged to ask questions;…

The conflation of Israel advocacy and Israel education has resulted in growing numbers of North American Jews ill prepared to understand and negotiate the complexity of contemporary Israel.

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the way Jews practice and express their Jewishness. Because the possibility exists that things will not return to the pre-pandemic norm, measures must be taken to assist Diaspora Jewry address the recent developments and their impacts, turning them into opportunities for renewal and growth. The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically changed the way Jews practice and…

The terrible human cost of World War II drove the United States to promote the establishment of institutions, rules, conventions, and agreements that would regulate, in the international sphere, such basic issues as arms control, trade, health, environmental protection, and more. This “world order,” which was forged during a period of American dominance and rooted in a multilateral approach to…

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At the meeting of the Knesset Committee on Aliyah, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, which took place at the President’s Office on December 13, 2004, President Moshe Katzav and Chairperson MK Collete Avital decided to postpone actions to further the President’s initiative of a “Second House” until April 1st, 2005, following the commitment JPPPI undertook to submit a position paper on…