The environment is a unifying issue and bold new joint initiatives between Israel and Diaspora Jews should be created and feature prominently on the Jewish agenda

Many Israelis are convinced that Palestinians are incapable of abandoning their principle of denying Israel’s right to exist.

Along with the rise in derogatory cries and aggression against Jews, there is a rise in hostility towards Israel and support for a boycott. It is difficult not to see these things as two sides of the same coin.

As long as rabbis see climate issues as marginal to their religious thinking, Israel’s policy will continue to neglect these critical threats to human lives

The identity of the justices to be appointed is critical to the country’s future, as the court is a key player in the Israeli culture war.

Good or bad, Kahana’s reform hasn’t won over its primary target audience; its supporters are actually those who don’t observe the kashrut laws. Let’s start by expressing a measure of suspicion. Not regarding one party, but rather two: The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Religious Services claim that the kashrut reform plan presented to the Knesset by Minister…

In the current equation, the religious and the Haredim are “responsible” for defining what is “Jewish” in the Jewish state, and the secular and the religious alike quarrel over the meaning of “democracy.” This is a fundamentally distorted equation.

In contextualizing the growth of antisemitism in the larger context of intensified racism and hate, we communicate the readiness of Jewish leadership to join with other ethnic and religious groups to heal the social fabric of America.

Historians will find a great variety of conceptual terms to describe the Israeli decision to ignore the Palestinian issue; “normalcy” will certainly not be among them.