“Until now, we have been reaching just 70 schools each year, but there are 1,500 Jewish schools in the world, and we want to help all of them,” said inister for Diaspora Affairs Omer Yankelevich.
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Israel and the Diaspora: The Big Bet on Jewish Peoplehood in the Twenty-First Century
There’s an ever-growing understanding within the Jewish world that we are approaching a point of no return in the gap between Israel and Diaspora Jewry. Recently, the fallout in this battle can be seen in American Jews’ erosion of identity and solidarity with Israel and Israeli Jews’ rising nationalism and resistance to pluralism.
No doubt both communities harbor grievances towards the other. To overcome this existential threat to our unity, many individuals have created initiatives to bridge the distrust between American and Israeli Jewry. The Israeli government’s recent initiative a formal consultation process between Israeli decision-makers and representatives from Jewish communities, organizations and institutions on matters relating to Diaspora Jews is just the latest example. These efforts are primarily based on the belief that educating the other side of their respective worldvi
Feb 11, 2021
“Unfortunately, hostile and anti-Semitic elements exploit the incapacity of social media platforms to spread their hate speech, undermining this cornerstone,” says Israel’s minister of Strategic Affairs.
The Israeli Ministries of Strategic Affairs and Diaspora Affairs on Wednesday presented a Knesset committee with an outline for a national response to hate speech online.
The outline was released at a special Knesset hearing of the Immigration, Absorption, and Diaspora Affairs Committee, chaired by MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh, which featured government officials and representatives of social media networks.
The committee’s primary focus was on urging social media companies to crack down on anti-Semitism on their platforms and enforce their policies against hate speech across the board, rather than selectively.