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Exploring the Jewish Spectrum in a Time of Fluid Identity
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Exploring the Jewish Spectrum in a Time of Fluid Identity

This year’s Dialogue Process marks the third year that JPPI has been building a structure for a systematic discourse on issues that are at the core of the collective interests of the Jewish people globally.
15/12/2016
By: Shmuel Rosner, Dr. John Ruskay
New JPPI Report: Jewish Community Undergoes Radial Change
Jewish Communities Worldwide

New JPPI Report: Jewish Community Undergoes Radial Change

A new report by the Jewish People Policy Institute “Exploring the Jewish Spectrum in a Time of Fluid Identity” analyzes the changing Jewish community and sets forth concerted recommendations which can serve as points of departure for leadership deliberation. Recommendations include that Jewish communal groups work to strengthen the sense of “Jewish Peoplehood” among individuals from mixed Jewish/non-Jewish families and…
29/11/2016
Jewish Communities Worldwide
Op-Ed: Why Anti-BDS Legislation is Important… But Ultimately Limited
Antisemitism

Op-Ed: Why Anti-BDS Legislation is Important… But Ultimately Limited

Only a week ago, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed a law that prevents his state from contracting with entities that boycott Israel and other US allies. Pennsylvania is the 16th state to pass such a law in the past year and a half. Having reviewed these various efforts for the Jewish People Policy Institute’s (JPPI) 2016 Annual Assessment of the…
16/11/2016
Antisemitism
Op-Ed: The Trump Win: Hoping for a Strong America to Advance a Peace Initiative
Peace Process

Op-Ed: The Trump Win: Hoping for a Strong America to Advance a Peace Initiative

The time to fill the champagne glasses will be when Israel is able to make the most of a trusted and friendly new administration to advance a peace initiative. After the US election the question on Israeli minds is how the results are likely to impact the triangular relationship: Jerusalem, Washington and the American Jewish community. Is there good reason…
10/11/2016
Peace Process

How To Prevent A Religious Civil War From Consuming Western Europe

This animosity has its roots in a dangerous lack of understanding of Islam and how it differs from Christianity’s view of the individual and the community. In recent years, we have watched as European governments have sought to restrict or completely prohibit practices perceived as contradicting national or liberal democratic values. The recent hubbub about the burkini is just another…
29/09/2016

Rosh Hashanah Resolution

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, known collectively as the yamim nora’im are an opportunity for Jews around the world to unite in some serious soul-searching. In recent years, the world’s two largest Jewish communities, in Israel and the United States, have grown apart. There are many reasons: One major factor are the different processes Israeli society and American Jewish communities…
28/09/2016

Is Israeli Society Healthy or Afflicted?

This break from reality isn’t only critical to the individual, but to a nation’s well-being. Holiday prayers remind us of our inherent vulnerability: “…Which nations will live by the sword and which nations by peace, which will go hungry and which will be sated” (Rosh Hashanah liturgy). This verse drives home the random, transient and fragile nature of the supreme…
27/09/2016
Drop in French Jews’ immigration to Israel ends record-setting boom
Europe's Jewry

Drop in French Jews’ immigration to Israel ends record-setting boom

By i24NEWS Jerusalem think-tank suggests investing in mechanisms to better integrate new arrivals into Israeli society The number of French Jews immigrating to Israel this year is expected to drop by 40 percent, according to a new assessment published Monday, ending a three-year boom which saw France for the first time overtake the United States as the number one provider of…
27/09/2016
Europe's Jewry

How to Save Israel’s Shabbat

Battles about cinema openings, clashes over automobile traffic and wars over shopping malls have, in general, ended with crushing defeats for the religious side. Many activities that were formerly banned in the name of the religious status quo are now conducted in the open. Thus, the operation of shopping malls, industry and cultural and public events that necessarily involve religious…
23/09/2016
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