Israel Relations

Annual Assessment: The Situation and Dynamics of the Jewish People in 2023

The Jewish People Policy Institute’s Annual Assessment plays both a summing-up and a forward-looking role. On the one hand, each year it examines events and developments that had an impact on the State of Israel and on the Jewish world. On the other hand, it monitors important trends to influence their direction, in order to improve the situation of Israel and of Jewish communities around the world.

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Opinion Articles

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen – Set Up a Meeting with the CEO of J Street Israel

There’s nothing like the post of foreign minister to make one truly grasp the catchphrase, “what you see from here you don’t see from there.”
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles

Israel’s Knesset must leave the Law of Return alone – opinion

Excising the Grandchild Clause would signal to hundreds of thousands of Israelis, who are not recognized as Jews, that the Knesset regards them as second-class citizens.
Opinion Articles
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.
Press Releases
צעדת התפוצות בירושלים. צילום: אסתי דזיובוב TPS

צעדת התפוצות בירושלים. צילום: אסתי דזיובוב TPS

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

To Deter Iran, Give Israel a Big Bomb

The best way to ensure Tehran doesn’t gain the capability to make a nuclear weapon is for the U.S. to empower its ally.

Despite the Gloomy Headlines, American Jewry has Grown in Size

American Jewry has grown in size, is largely connected to Israel, and the young generation can be engaged; is more diverse and divided than in the past Highlights from Prof. Leonard Saxe’s lecture at JPPI (edited by Dan Feferman).
Opinion Articles

How can Israel convince gentiles if it can’t convince Jews?

Israel’s hasbara problem is, of course, only a symptom of much more serious phenomena, among them: the threat to our relations with the US and its Jews.
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles

The Pew 2020 survey in the context of demographic studies, and US Jewry in the global Jewish context

Comparative research is enriched by new items that allow for tracing trends and outlining differences, discovering patterns, or disproving existing conceptions.
Opinion Articles
Policy Papers

Let’s Talk – Discussing the Future Among the Jewish People

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;…
Policy Papers