President Reuven Rivlin meets delegation of South African volunteers and professionals, part of the “fifth tribe” of Diaspora Jewry.
Real issues divide the world’s two largest Jewish communities: religious pluralism, preserving Israel’s Jewish democratic core and working toward two states for two peoples.
Less festive, but no less meaningful, will be this week’s other birthday – the Arab-Israeli conflict’s.
Im Tirtzu runs program to counter "anti-Israel bias" on country’s university campuses.
Israel is not suffering from cultural retardation or democratic deficit.
Using social networks and targeting university students, the Agency said that it recently identified the academy as a “central front” in the battle to distance young Jews from the state of Israel.
Ronald S. Lauder expressed "outrage" and "utter bewilderment" in the wake of Matisyahu's canceled participation in the Rototom Sunsplash festival.