Posts Tagged: Israel Diaspora
Ukraine and Purim: A Call for Jewish Unity
While every Jewish holiday involves an element of communal unity, the holiday of Purim is particularly one that celebrates togetherness. Giving to the poor, delivering food...
Now Is Time to Double Down on Israel-Diaspora Relations for Young Jews
JNS.org - Israel is a land of opportunity. As young people now face uncertainty on a multitude of levels, long-term experiences in Israel offer them a...
Bridge Over Troubled Water: A Reflection on Israel and Diaspora Jewry in a Changing World
The events of the last few months have altered global discourse. It is not clear what the long-term impact will be on issues of identity,...
A View From Israel: Are We Failing the Diaspora?
JNS.org - On Monday evening, May 4, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood before the television cameras and announced that Israel had achieved remarkable success...
How to Bridge the Diaspora-Israel Gap
JNS.org - The Israel-Diaspora relationship has always been complex and fraught with landmines, and during crises has experienced many extremes, from complete solidarity to creeping...
Israel and the Diaspora
As we approach Israel’s Independence Day, the relationship between Israel and the Diaspora remains ambivalent. Israel is faced with constant existential threats and low-grade warfare....
Jewish Diversity Is Cherished, But American Jews and Israelis Must Respect Each Other
Every year around the time of Israel's Independence Day, the Pew Research Center conducts a survey that reveals good news for Israel. The annual survey asks...
Israeli and Diaspora Jews Are More United Than We Think
JNS.org - In recent months, some Jewish community leaders and pundits have been sounding an alarm about a rift developing between American and Israeli Jews....
Why the Majority of American Jews Feel Alienated From Israel
The very sad truth is that a large part of American Jewry has decided not to educate their children and grandchildren to be Jewish in...
Israel Plays an Important Role in Fighting Antisemitism
JNS.org - Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett recently rushed to Pittsburgh to represent the government of Israel at memorial events following the terrorist massacre...
A Call to GA Participants
First, permit me to open this column by expressing my distress that for the first time, the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) are holding...
The American Public and Israel: A Record of Support, But Clouds on the Horizon
Gallup has conducted polls of American public opinion towards Israel since the 1947 UN Partition Resolution. Since 1977, Gallup has conducted such surveys annually and, during...
Israel: A Jewish Homeland With a Universal Heart
JNS.org - Jews in the Diaspora are increasingly at odds with mainstream Israel concerning some crucial issues affecting the future of the Jewish people. These include...
Tzipi Hotovely’s Comments Highlight Underbelly of Mistrust Between US Jews and Israel
JNS.org - Controversial remarks made last week by Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely -- that American Jewry is out of touch with the daily realities of life...
