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What JPPI’s 2017 Global Jewish Dialogue on Jerusalem Teaches us about the Kotel Crisis
Identity and Education

What JPPI’s 2017 Global Jewish Dialogue on Jerusalem Teaches us about the Kotel Crisis

JPPI’s 2017 Global Jewish Dialogue on Jerusalem and the Jewish People offers data that explains why the Jewish world uses the word “betrayal” in reaction to recent Israeli government decisions freezing the Kotel compromise and initiating a new law on conversion
02/07/2017
Identity and Education
Op-Ed: Red Lines Belong to the People
Geopolitics

Op-Ed: Red Lines Belong to the People

Rabin was right; red lines are not for prime ministers to draw. They need to hold their cards close to the chest. Real red lines belong to the people. The following is an op-ed originally published by the Jerusalem Post.In the spring of 1995, as the Washington bureau chief of Ma’ariv, I wrote a couple of analyses explaining why then…
26/06/2017
Geopolitics
India, Israel and the Jewish People
Asia

India, Israel and the Jewish People

  INDIA, ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE Looking Ahead, Looking Back 25 Years after Normalization   With a Foreword by H.E. President Reuven Rivlin   Shalom Salomon Wald and Arielle Kandel
19/06/2017
Asia
Raising Jewish Children: Research and Indications for Intervention
Identity and Education

Raising Jewish Children: Research and Indications for Intervention

     Family, Engagement, and Jewish Continuity among American Jews   Sylvia Barack Fishman and Steven M. Cohen   Learning Jewishness, Jewish Education, and Jewish Identity   Sylvia Barack Fishman and Shlomo Fischer Contributors: Rachel S. Bernstein, Dov Maimon and Shmuel Rosner  
05/06/2017
Identity and Education

Voyage to Identity

On Shavuot night, hundreds of thousands of people will leave their homes and celebrate a “white night.” For a few hours, they will detach themselves from the powerful forces that move all Israelis — money, politics, celebrities, disputes, and sports. Large numbers of women and men will assemble to study Jewish texts and ideas. This amazing event — the Tikkun…
01/06/2017

Language as a Tool for Change

Although many of the incidents that today’s media portray as racist do fall within the category set forth in the Penal Code, the present definition does not delineate clear boundaries. It is a frequent cause of confusion and inconsistency, and hampers the formulation of commonly accepted criteria for quantifying the phenomenon and assessing its scope. Moreover, it could potentially cause…
25/05/2017
Jerusalem and the Jewish People: Unity and Division – Interim Report

Jerusalem and the Jewish People: Unity and Division – Interim Report

Interim Report, as presented to the Mayor of Jerusalem, the Honorable Mr. Nir Barkat Project Heads: Shmuel Rosner and John Ruskay Project coordinator: Chaya Ekstein-Koppel Contributing Writer: Noah Slepkov Editor: Barry Geltman
18/05/2017
By: Shmuel Rosner, Dr. John Ruskay, Noah Slepkov

Battling Over Equality

The State of Israel has an obligation to protect itself and its Jewish identity as long as it does so while creating full civic equality for the members of the state’s Arab minority. The state, and the vast majority of its Jewish citizens, is willing to grant equality to Arabs in Israel. But equality means different things to the Jews…
01/05/2017
Op-Ed: When Craziness Makes Sense
Identity and Education

Op-Ed: When Craziness Makes Sense

Israel at 69, re-finding American deterrence. Published in the Jerusalem Post Independence Day is a good time to take stock of the state of the Jewish state – and it doesn’t look so bad. As a Jew, an Israeli and a Zionist, I enjoy seeing the half-full glass on such occasions. Living in a crazy neighborhood as a normal state…
01/05/2017
Identity and Education
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