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The Hebrew University is weighing the idea of changing the language of instruction in some of its degree programs from Hebrew to English. This could be the first step towards making English the language of instruction for undergraduate degrees as well, first in the natural sciences and later in the humanities and social sciences. A decision by the Hebrew University…
17/01/2019

A Lethal Virus

The leaks from the police investigation, if corroborated, point to the sabotage of a critical national institution. If the judicial selection process proves to be infected by corrupt deals, and especially if the phenomenon turns out to be widespread, the possibility to rely on clear rules of the game and decision-making process in the conduct of our national debates will…
17/01/2019
Politico Interview with Amb. Stuart E. Eizenstat, JPPI Co-Chair

Politico Interview with Amb. Stuart E. Eizenstat, JPPI Co-Chair

By POLITICO STAFF 01/15/2019 05:24 AM EST How/where are you celebrating your birthday and with whom? “I will be at a corporate board meeting in London that day, but celebrated in two ways the weekend before: first, with my special friend Marion Ein Lewin, whose birthday is the day before; second, as a proud father and grandfather, watching my son…
15/01/2019
China, Israel, and the United States: Triangular Pressures
Geopolitics

China, Israel, and the United States: Triangular Pressures

On December 31, 2018, JPPI Senior Fellow Dr. Shalom Wald discussed China – Israel relations, and their implications for US – Israel relations, in light of recent tensions between Washington and Beijing.
03/01/2019
Geopolitics

When the Government Provides Religious Services

Israel is almost the only Western country that formally and institutionally provides its citizens with a long series of religious services, including kashrut supervision, ritual baths, burial, subsidies for Torah-based culture, spiritual counseling by local rabbis, religious marriage and divorce, conversion, and more. In all these domains, the State provides the funding and at the same time sets the standards…
03/01/2019

Two Democracies for Two Peoples

If in the past, we tended to speak about tensions in Israeli society in terms of Arabs and Jews, religious and secular, or Right and Left, the findings of the Israel Democracy Institute’s 2018 Israeli Democracy Index, released last week reveal a major new split: the split over Israeli democracy. In today’s Israel, the fundamental question that defines the state—what…
12/12/2018
The new (literary) engagement with Israel

The new (literary) engagement with Israel

Is American Jewry estranged from Israel? Recent novels by Krauss, Safran Foer, and Englander prove just the opposite Nathan Englander’s latest novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth (2017) culminated in a romantic union. The lovers in the novel, an Israeli Jew and a Palestinian Muslim, are forced to hold their assignation in an underground tunnel beneath the Gaza…
12/12/2018
Answer our survey and see where you land on the map of Israeli Judaism

Answer our survey and see where you land on the map of Israeli Judaism

This is an English translation of the #IsraeliJudaism Project questionnaire, which was created as part of JPPI's Pluralism Project, supported by the William Davidson Foundation. On the basis of these questions, Prof. Camil Fuchs developed a new model to represent the structure of Jewish society in Israel. Once you have answered all the questions, you can see where you are…
12/11/2018
By: Shmuel Rosner, Professor Camil Fuchs, Noah Slepkov

Beit Shemesh and Tel Aviv

Beit Shemesh is a highly unlikely choice from the outset. It has been the scene of an intensive struggle for control of the public space, pitting the ultra-Orthodox against the town’s secular and religious Zionist residents. The conflict is not just a matter of ideology, but also of practice. Ugly and aggressive exclusion of women is common. Especially notorious are…
08/11/2018
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