Tag: Diaspora Jewry
Jewish People Policy Institute founder to step down in 2020
Avinoam Bar-Yosef, the founding director of the independent think tank Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), has announced that he will retire from the organization effective October 2020.
Announcing his departure a year in advance to...
Meet Jerusalem’s deputy mayor: Fleur Hassan-Nahoum
Fleur Hassan-Nahoum’s story begins with her upbringing in Gibraltar as the daughter of Sir Joshua Abraham Hassan, the first mayor and chief minister of Gibraltar. It eventually wound its way to her becoming the deputy...
Will another Netanyahu victory sever ties with the Diaspora?
The slates are set for next month’s elections in Israel, but considering that it was only four months ago that voters last went to the polls to try to elect a government, their lack...
In Israel, OU leaders talk of increasing Jewish-identity initiatives in Diaspora
Orthodox Union leaders from the United States and Canada met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday to talk about the need to increase and expand initiatives focused on Diaspora Jewish education and...
The difference between intermarriage and the Holocaust
American Jews have a new reason to be outraged about Israel’s government. At a recent meeting of the Cabinet on the state of world Jewry, Education Minister Rafi Peretz decried the rising rates of...
Anti-Semitism on minds at ‘aliyah’ fair as North Americans prepare for move
It’s no easy task to pack up one’s earthly possessions and cross the ocean to a new country where a new language is spoken, even if it is a “coming home.” Compounding the matter is...
Hebrew language, arts and culture take center stage in March throughout Diaspora
The Council for Hebrew Language and Culture in North America is launching a month-long festival as part of its mission to promote Hebrew as a common global Jewish language.
Called Hagigah Ivrit (“The Celebration of Hebrew”), it...