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Identity and Education
Identity and Education
If the Declaration of Independence Falls, Israeli Unity Will Fall Too
This last bastion of consensus is under attack. If it succeeds, there will no longer be any text around which the State of Israel and Israeli society can unite.
Identity and Education
Identity and Education
How I Got Israel Wrong
A crisis such as the one we are going through in Israel is an opportunity for self-examination and soul-searching. I tended to believe that pragmatism would always win the day. I was wrong.
Identity and Education
Identity and Education
Restoring the covenant of fate
If we wisely gird ourselves with constitutional arrangements on the rules of the game commonly accepted in liberal democracies, we will be able to restore our covenant of fate.
Identity and Education
Identity and Education
The State of the Jews writ large
As a senior US government official under Carter, I tried to synthesize policy in ways that strengthened the US-Israel relationship
Antisemitism
Antisemitism
Annual Assessment: The Situation and Dynamics of the Jewish People in 2023
The Jewish People Policy Institute’s Annual Assessment plays both a summing-up and a forward-looking role. On the one hand, each year it examines events and developments that had an impact on the State of Israel and on the Jewish world. On the other hand, it monitors important trends to influence their direction, in order to improve the situation of Israel and of Jewish communities around the world.
Identity and Education
Identity and Education
What Israel Means to Me
The Jewish state must remain democratic and pluralistic. To be Jewish but not democratic is an inherent contradiction