Diaspora
To Resist the Academic Intifada’
Last month, the JPPI – Jewish People Policy Institute – published The Essential Guide to October 7th and its Aftermath: Facts, Figures, History – my how-to-defend-Israel guide. This week, Wicked Son is publishing To Resist the Academic Intifada: Letters to My Students on Defending the Zionist Dream – my why-to-celebrate-Israel manifesto. The story of that book is the story of a changing agenda over three years.
New Subjects in the Field
Articles
Articles
Israel – Two Perspectives and the Zionism of the 21st Century
Last month, the Vice President of the Jewish People Policy Institute, Dr. Shuki Friedman, appeared at the Z-3 conference at the JCC in Palo Alto and spoke about the meaning of Zionism in the 21st century.
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles
Minister Nachman Shai: It is time for a new paradigm in Israeli-Diaspora
It is time we change the paradigm between Israeli-Diaspora relations. This week in Basel we celebrated the 125th anniversary since the first Zionist Congress, led by Theodor Herzl.
Press Releases
Press Releases
Annual assessment for 2022 – main recommendations
The Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) Releases 2022 Annual Assessment of the Situation and Dynamics of the Jewish People, Indicators of Jewish Safety and Well-being in Decline.
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles
Herzl and the First Zionist Congress: Then and now
We need a new Herzl and a new Zionist Congress, not for the purpose of establishing a state or defining identity, but to breathe the spirit of solidarity and Jewish brotherhood into an era of strife
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles
How Much Should Israel Value Jewish Interests Over its Own?
The crisis with Russia surrounding the Jewish Agency raises the question again: what price is Israel willing to pay for solidarity towards Diaspora Jewry?
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles
The Rise of the French Anti-System Parties: Implications for European Jewry
The extremist blocs now flanking President Emanuel Macron’s party disagree on nearly everything, but they are both angry – and neither bodes well for the Jews.
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles
Israel-Diaspora Relations and the Pew Report
The depth and quality of relations between Israeli and Diaspora Jews are perennially on the public agenda. The new Pew report, Jewish Americans in 2020, provides insight into our current point in time. It allows us to examine whether and how relations between the two largest Jewish communities – in Israel and the United States – are in a state…