Israel Relations

Voice of the Jewish People Survey – April 2024

US Jews claim that discrimination against them has increased since the start of the Gaza war and think Washington is not supporting Israel strongly enough.
Voice of the Jewish People Survey – April 2024

New Subjects in the Field

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
Opinion Articles

On Israel-Palestine, Biden Is Not Just Another Version of Obama

Published in Haaretz Many in Israel are expressing concern that the administration of President-elect Joe Biden will be a repeat of the Obama administration. But Biden is not Barack Obama and 2021 is not 2009. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are traditional Democrats, with a fundamental commitment to Israel whose roots are in part emotional in nature (in contrast…
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles

Must Israel ‘support Washington to face down Beijing?’ – analysis

A 2019 Rand Corporation Study reviewed Israel-China relations from the perspective of the American national interest.
Opinion Articles
Policy Challenges

The Global Positions of China and the US, Before and After the Coronavirus Crisis

A Jewish People Policy Institute webinar about the “Global Positions of China and the US Before and After the Coronavirus Crisis” with JPPI Senior Fellows Brig.
Policy Challenges

The Strategic Triangle: Jerusalem-Washington-American Jewry

Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, 21st IDF Chief of Staff and Amb. Dennis Ross, Co-Chair of the Jewish People Policy Institute, discuss ‘the Strategic Triangle: Jerusalem-Washington-American Jewry’ at the Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem. The event was conducted in Hebrew and English, this video has English subtitles.