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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

JPPI Jewish People Policy Institute

JPPI head Prof. Yedidia Stern, a leading Israeli legal scholar. (Courtesy JPPI)
June 30, 2023, 6:05 am
What Matters Now to Prof. Yedidia Stern: A ‘thin constitution’
As protests against the judicial overhaul again ramp up, a leading Israeli legal scholar believes the national situation is not yet dire enough to be a ‘full constitutional moment’
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A man wearing an Israeli flag prays at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, September 17, 2017.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 9, 2019, 7:18 am
Israeli morality informed more by religion, laws than by Western values – survey
Marking Independence Day, JPPI index tests perceptions of what makes a ‘real Israeli,’ evaluates religious practice
By Marissa Newman
US President Donald Trump (left) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
September 16, 2018, 7:00 pm
Trump officials reportedly frustrated at US Jews for not cheering embassy move
Senior administration official complains, ‘If Obama had transferred the US embassy to Jerusalem, the American Jewish community would have been united in applauding him!’
By Eric Cortellessa
Illustrative: Jewish men pray at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem during the Tisha B'Av fast marking the destruction of the Temples, on August 1, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 21, 2018, 6:07 pm
For over half of Israelis, Tisha B’Av is just another day
Study says percentage of Jewish public that views fast marking destruction of Temples as a day of mourning is much smaller than other non-religious memorial days
By JTA
People carry Israeli flags as they march during the annual Celebrate Israel Parade, June 3, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
June 26, 2018, 7:53 pm
Abrasive Israel, apathetic Diaspora behind Jewry’s widening gap, says report
Jerusalem-based think tank JPPI says now that the Jewish state is indisputably Judaism’s ‘center of gravity,’ it bears the onus of mending rift with splintered community abroad
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative: An Israeli family seen during the Passover Seder on April 3, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
March 27, 2018, 9:55 pm
Doze off before Had Gadya? You’re not alone
64% of Israeli Jews finish the entire Hagaddah at their seders, including the part after the festive meal, study finds
By Melanie Lidman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on June 25, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
June 26, 2017, 2:41 pm
Ministers were debating ‘the future of the Jewish people’
An inside account of the fateful cabinet session at which the Western Wall pluralistic prayer plan was cast aside
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
J. Rolando Matalon (R), the senior rabbi at B’nai Jeshurun synagogue in New York City, seen in a video from June 15, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube)
June 17, 2017, 3:18 am
Rabbis at influential NY shul to officiate intermarriages
New policy at B’nai Jeshurun aims to welcome the participation of interfaith families within the bounds of Jewish law
By JTA
Shmuel Rosner
April 23, 2017, 3:42 pm
Shmuel Rosner
JPPI study does include Reform, Conservative
The survey addresses religious intensity not affiliation; It found half of Israeli Jews prefer mixed-seating synagogues
Illustrative image of an ultra-Orthodox Israeli contractor greeting a Palestinian construction worker as he and others wait on the Palestinian side of the checkpoint at the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
April 20, 2017, 6:32 pm
Reform and Conservative Judaism left out of new Israeli pluralism index
Survey of 1,300 Jewish and Arab Israelis is a window into seeds of coexistence, and lingering prejudice
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter conducts strike operations against Syria while in the Mediterranean Sea, April 7, 2017. (US Navy/Ford Williams)
April 20, 2017, 2:19 pm
Israeli officials: US gave 2-hour warning before striking Syria
Activists hold mass pot protest outside Knesset; US defense chief lands in Israel, will meet Netanyahu Friday
By ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. (AFP/Saul Loeb)
March 1, 2017, 11:15 pm
Netanyahu praises Trump for ‘strong stance’ against anti-Semitism
Amid uptick in threats, acts of vandalism against US Jewish communities, PM urges world leaders to follow president’s lead
By ToI Staff
Veteran US diplomat Dennis Ross (Uri Lenz/Flash90)
June 26, 2016, 6:36 pm
Clinton would avoid Obama-esque spats with Israel, ex-diplomat says
Dennis Ross, who served as Mideast adviser to Bill Clinton, warns that Israel is becoming more isolated, calls for end to building outside settlement blocs
By Raphael Ahren
A Haredi and a secular Jew praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. (Serge Attal/Flash90)
May 8, 2016, 7:01 pm
Most Israeli Jews support Jewish pluralism, civil marriage
JPPI survey says 80% of Israelis believe traditional, Orthodox, secular are all ‘equally good’; 56% advocate ‘more consideration’ for minorities
By ToI Staff
Activist Asaf Lev attends a gathering in Tel Aviv encouraging other Israelis to immigrate to Berlin, October 14, 2014. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
December 4, 2015, 6:49 am
Defeatists? Demagogues? Voters! How would giving the vote to expats change Israeli politics?
As Netanyahu moves to advance absentee balloting, experts note dearth of research on the political views of hundreds of thousands of Israelis who live abroad, and urge restrictions to limit their influence
By Marissa Newman
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