Identity and Education
The Perfect Storm: Why this Rosh Hashanah May Start Israel’s Most Challenging Year Yet
Democracy
Israel’s Declaration: A Secular Sacred Text, Not a Legal Weapon
Identity and Education
AI will not change the Jews – or will it?
Publications
Antisemitism
Antisemitism
Durban at 25: The Conference That Changed the War Against Israel
Twenty-five years after the UN’s Durban conference became a turning point in the campaign to delegitimize Israel, Irwin Cotler and Gil Troy look back at what happened there, how the language of racism, apartheid and colonialism was weaponized against the Jewish state, and why Durban still matters in the battles over Israel today.
Identity and Education
Identity and Education
Israel is wasting one of its greatest educational opportunities: summer
Youth movements, teachers, municipalities and civil-society organizations could join forces with Jewish camps, foundations and educational institutions abroad.
Religion and State
Religion and State
Netanyahu’s false promise of ‘study or serve’
The latest Haredi draft slogan gives voters exactly what they want to hear without delivering the soldiers Israel needs.
Geopolitics
Geopolitics
Israel cannot prevent another October 7 if Netanyahu keeps rewriting the first one
Israel cannot learn from October 7 if its leaders continue to deflect responsibility and rewrite the failures that made the massacre possible.
Antisemitism
Antisemitism
Conspiracy Theories Have Never Been Good for the Jews; They Won’t Be Good for Israel
Having suffered from this for centuries, do we really want it in our public life?
Religion and State
Religion and State
When women are asked to disappear
In every case, the same principle is being established: when a man’s beliefs collide with a woman’s presence, the woman is the one expected to move.
Democracy
Democracy
“The election isn’t right vs left”
JPPI Senior Fellow, Prof. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, on the Deep Dive podcast by The Jerusalem Post talking about the upcoming Israeli elections.
Geopolitics
Geopolitics
Fraying the Big Tent: The Quiet Fracture of the Progressive-Muslim Alliance in America
New research by Dr. Kobby Barda exposes the cracks in the "green-red alliance" in the United States and demonstrates that a coalition of minority groups cannot permanently override deeply held religious and moral beliefs.
Identity and Education
Identity and Education
The Perfect Storm: Why this Rosh Hashanah May Start Israel’s Most Challenging Year Yet
A convergence of trends and events – some global, some local – threatens to turn the Jewish New Year into a “perfect storm” for Israel, from elections and war to diplomacy and climate change.
Democracy
Democracy
Israel’s Declaration: A Secular Sacred Text, Not a Legal Weapon
Those who cherish the Declaration must resist placing it in the legal arena.
Identity and Education
Identity and Education
AI will not change the Jews – or will it?
AI may not change what it means to be Jewish. But it could profoundly change the institutions through which Jewish life has been transmitted from one generation to another.
Antisemitism
Antisemitism
Durban at 25: The Conference That Changed the War Against Israel
Twenty-five years after the UN’s Durban conference became a turning point in the campaign to delegitimize Israel, Irwin Cotler and Gil Troy look back at what happened there, how the language of racism, apartheid and colonialism was weaponized against the Jewish state, and why Durban still matters in the battles over Israel today.
Identity and Education
Identity and Education
Israel is wasting one of its greatest educational opportunities: summer
Youth movements, teachers, municipalities and civil-society organizations could join forces with Jewish camps, foundations and educational institutions abroad.
Religion and State
Religion and State
Netanyahu’s false promise of ‘study or serve’
The latest Haredi draft slogan gives voters exactly what they want to hear without delivering the soldiers Israel needs.
Geopolitics
Geopolitics
Israel cannot prevent another October 7 if Netanyahu keeps rewriting the first one
Israel cannot learn from October 7 if its leaders continue to deflect responsibility and rewrite the failures that made the massacre possible.
Antisemitism
Antisemitism
Conspiracy Theories Have Never Been Good for the Jews; They Won’t Be Good for Israel
Having suffered from this for centuries, do we really want it in our public life?
Religion and State
Religion and State
When women are asked to disappear
In every case, the same principle is being established: when a man’s beliefs collide with a woman’s presence, the woman is the one expected to move.
Democracy
Democracy
“The election isn’t right vs left”
JPPI Senior Fellow, Prof. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, on the Deep Dive podcast by The Jerusalem Post talking about the upcoming Israeli elections.
Geopolitics
Geopolitics
Fraying the Big Tent: The Quiet Fracture of the Progressive-Muslim Alliance in America
New research by Dr. Kobby Barda exposes the cracks in the "green-red alliance" in the United States and demonstrates that a coalition of minority groups cannot permanently override deeply held religious and moral beliefs.