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Israel’s confrontation with Hamas is a strategic wake-up call
Geopolitics

Israel’s confrontation with Hamas is a strategic wake-up call
20/05/2021
Geopolitics
The Jewish Camp of the Nine Percent

The Jewish Camp of the Nine Percent

The Pew Research Center's new study of American Jews offers a wealth of data. Some of its findings are headline-making and can be expected to dominate the news, while others are more obscure. It is often the more obscure information that is truly important and interesting. Here I suggest examining one particular finding. The researchers examined the degree of connection…
11/05/2021
By: Shmuel Rosner
Was the Coronavirus Year Really One of Deepening Polarization?
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Ultra-Orthodox

Was the Coronavirus Year Really One of Deepening Polarization?

The past year presented Israeli society and its elected officials with quite a few challenges. Notable among them was a sense of polarization and (some maintain) hatred between different population sectors.
09/05/2021
By: Dr. Inbal Hakman
Ultra-Orthodox
Jewish Families Project

Jewish Families Project

The past year was the year of television. The lockdowns, social isolation and extra free time strengthened a medium that has in any case flourished in recent years. And in the era of television, the year of television, it was also a shining time for Israel’s (relatively) new public TV channel Kan 11. In last month’s Israeli Academy of Film…
09/05/2021
By: Dr. Gitit Levy-Paz
Climate Change and the Jewish Question

Climate Change and the Jewish Question

Despite everything they have in common, the Israeli Jewish experience differs greatly from the Diaspora Jewish experience. The two communities don't always have the same interests or find the same issues compelling, and they disagree on quite a few matters, both those relating to values and those relating to modes of action. Understanding these tensions in depth, and trying to…
09/05/2021
By: Dr. Dov Maimon
Antisemitism and its Impact on Jewish Identity
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Antisemitism and its Impact on Jewish Identity
03/05/2021
By: Dr. Shlomo Fischer, Dr. John Ruskay
Israel Advocacy and Israel Education — Leadership Must Decide
Israel-Diaspora Relations

Israel Advocacy and Israel Education — Leadership Must Decide

The conflation of Israel advocacy and Israel education has resulted in growing numbers of North American Jews ill prepared to understand and negotiate the complexity of contemporary Israel.
12/04/2021
By: Dr. John Ruskay
Israel-Diaspora Relations
The 2021 Israel Pluralism Index: Consensus and Disagreements
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Israel-Diaspora Relations

The 2021 Israel Pluralism Index: Consensus and Disagreements

Editors: Noah Slepkov, Shmuel Rosner
08/04/2021
By: Shmuel Rosner, Noah Slepkov, Professor Camil Fuchs
Israel-Diaspora Relations
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Antisemitism

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Yom HASHOAH, Holocaust Remembrance Day, is a solemn day in which we remember the six million Jews, including one and a half million children, along with millions of others who were victims of Nazi brutality who were murdered between 1933-1945; honor the 330,000 survivors worldwide, a third in Israel; and recognize how the absence of a Jewish state in which European Jews could take refuge directly contributed to the Shoah.
01/04/2021
By: Stuart Eizenstat
Antisemitism
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