Why most recent immigrants to Israel aren’t considered Jewish
by Sam Sokol JERUSALEM (JTA) — For the first time, Israel announced that Jewish immigrants to Israel were outnumbered by non-Jewish immigrants. The headlines might…
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Amos Oz, a ‘saintly intellectual’ who turned Israel’s national reality into art
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Amos Oz would often speak in the kind of tossed-off epigrams that come only with a lot of practice. But…
First Path of Commuters’ Network Inaugurated in Tel Aviv’s HaYarkon Park
The Sylvan Adams Commuter Path Network, which will connect Tel Aviv to its suburbs, has just begun. The first route of the series was inaugurated…
JPPI Report: Significant Rise in Identification with Reform and Conservative Judaism in Israel
Jerusalem, October 15, 2018…A new Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) study, Rising Streams, Reform and Conservative Judaism in Israel, reports that 12-13 percent of Israeli…
Jewish? Democratic? Israel’s nation-state law raises questions over the country’s purpose
By Charles Dunst (JTA) – On July 19, Israel’s right-wing coalition government passed, by a narrow 62-55 margin, its controversial nation-state law, which declared Israel…