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US and Israeli Jews are divided more by ideology than geography
Demonstrators hold U.S. and Israeli flags during a rally in Central Park on March 10, 2024 in New York City. (Noam Galai Getty Images) JTA – Over the past few years, as tragedy, war, and rising global antisemitism afflicted Jewish communities in both the United States (US) and Israel, our communities experienced an unexpected rise in their shared sense of peoplehood. Despite very different lived experiences, Israeli and American Jews feel closer today than just a few years ago.
US and Israeli Jews are divided more by ideology than geography
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Over the last few years, as tragedy, war and rising global antisemitism afflicted Jewish communities in both the U.S. and Israel, our communities experienced an unexpected rise in their shared sense of peoplehood. Despite very different lived experiences, Israeli and American Jews feel closer today than just a few years ago. Yet there are also real differences of opinion within our global Jewish people.
U.S. and Israeli Jews are drifting apart? The data tell a different story.
Campers celebrate Israel at a Jewish camp in New York’s Rockland County. Courtesy of Ramah Day Camp in Nyack (JTA) — This is part one of a two-part analysis based on the Jewish Federations of North America’s 2026 binational study of Jewish Americans and Jewish Israelis, exploring where the communities are aligned and where they differ. Part two will address where American and Israeli Jews see things differently, and why. The last three years have been historic for both American and Israeli Jews.
Morocco Earthquake Relief
Following Friday’sdevastating earthquakein the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Jewish Federations, together with our partners, are responding. News reports indicate that nearly 2,500 people have been confirmed dead and that number continues to climb as rescue and retrieval efforts reach remote villages in the mountainous region. Thousands more were injured, many of them critically, and survivors are confronting the psychological trauma caused by the event.
Israel Judicial Reform Update: Major Supreme Court Hearing
As many of you may be aware, there is a major, landmark Supreme Court case set to be heard in Israel tomorrow, discussing the legality of the recently-passed judicial reform legislation that restricted the Supreme Court’s use of the legal doctrine known as the “Reasonableness Clause.” For the first time in the country’s history, all 15 Supreme Court judges will hear the case.
Law Passed After Almost 30 Hours of Continuous Knesset Debate
Following hours of high tension, protests and political maneuvering in Israel, the “Reasonableness” bill that will reduce the Israeli Supreme Court’s power to strike down some government decisions passed its third reading in the Knesset, and is now law. Never miss the best stories and events! Get JewishBoston This Week. Subscribe Error The new law passed with 64 votes in favor and 0 against, as opposition MKs boycotted the final vote on the bill in protest.
Update on Situation in Israel
A shaky unofficial ceasefire marred by intermittent rocket launches seems to be holding in Israel after two days of massive rocket fire against Israeli targets, which themselves followed Israeli Defense Forces’ attacks against terrorist leaders and infrastructure in Gaza. (See our update from yesterday here). Never miss the best stories and events! Get JewishBoston This Week.
Latest Israel update
There has been a significant escalation in the security situation in Israel. In the past few hours (at the time of writing) more than 200 rockets have been fired at Israel. While most were directed at population centers in the country’s south including the cities of Ashkelon, Ashdod and Sderot, there have also been multiple rockets that targeted the central region, including Tel Aviv, Bat Yam, Ramat Gan, Rishon Le’Tzion and Holon.
Update on the situation in Israel
Dear Friends, Recent days – the beginning of the Passover holiday – have been marred by violence, tension and tragedy in Israel and along its borders. At the end of last week, multiple rockets were fired at Israeli civilian targets from both the Gaza Strip as well as from Lebanon (see our initial updatehere). Some 34 rockets were fired from Lebanon – the largest attack from that country since 2006 (see detailshereand backgroundhere).
North American Jews and Israel are meeting again - opinion
Earlier this month on the long journey to the Polish-Ukrainian border, a group of Jewish communal leaders on a humanitarian aid mission with the Jewish Federations of North America made a comfort stop at a gas station near Lublin. In what felt like the middle of nowhere in Poland, participants were amazed to suddenly hear Hebrew being spoken in the background. The speaker turned out to be Israel’s Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz, who was heading into Ukraine to visit the Israeli field hospital.
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