Tag: Israel-Diaspora Relations
From Knesset floor, Israeli coalition member says Reform Jews are ‘not Jewish’
During a debate on the Knesset floor on Wednesday, Knesset member Yinon Azoulay of the Shas Party said that Reform Jews “are not Jewish” and then blamed non-Jews for an earthquake felt earlier that day in...
Heed the lessons of Natan Sharansky
Natan Sharansky is exiting the center stage of Jewish life. The 70-year-old former Soviet dissident and prisoner of Zion turned author, Israeli politician and, for the last eight years, the head of the Jewish...
Naftali Bennett Discusses Israel-Diaspora Relations at AJC Global Forum
Minister of Education and Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennettspoke at the 2018 AJC Global Forum last night.
During a conversation with Kim Pimley, an AJC officer, he expressed concern over growing gaps between Israeli and American Jews and,...
Don’t punish Israel for Netanyahu’s Realpolitik
Yes, it may be easier to be a Reform or Conservative Jew in Canada than it is in Israel. That’s how I read the title of last month’s symposium at York University in Toronto,...