J Street organizes and mobilizes pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans who want Israel to be secure, democratic and the national home of the Jewish people. Working in American politics and the Jewish community, we advocate policies that advance shared US and Israeli interests as well as Jewish and democratic values, leading to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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J Street's new poll explores Democratic voters' views on Israel, the US-Israel relationship and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The holiday of Sukkot makes an appearance at the end of Parshat Mishpatim. Whereas it is only defined here as an agricultural holiday, it takes on a historical significance later in the Torah as well.
The report released by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on February 12, 2020 contains a database of 112 business enterprises involved in certain “specified activities” (defined below) related to Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
In January, I returned with sharply clashing impressions from a delegation to Israel and the occupied territories with the Center for Jewish Nonviolence. We were a group of Diaspora Jewish activists, including several J Streeters. As we proceeded, I found myself caught between political despair and rising hope. Trump and Netanyahu’s annexation plan only exacerbated the despair -- but hope remains.
Winter in Israel reminds us mightily that, like the weather, there are forces tearing at the fabric of life and that we must seek succor from these storms -- and more so, try our best to find ways to extract meaning in life and take action to protect what is most precious to us.
PM says he’s lifted freeze to build Givat Hamatos neighborhood in East Jerusalem, Times of Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Thursday that he had lifted restrictions against the construction of the controversial Givat Hamatos neighborhood in East Jerusalem, saying that 3,000 homes would be built for Jewish residents there, in addition to another 2,200 housing units for Jews in the nearby Har Homa neighborhood.
Hamas Uses Israeli Election Mayhem to Extract Concessions for Gaza, Haaretz
The list of measures – which Israel did not rush to publicize, in contrast to its usual trumpeting of sanctions when those are imposed – is the most far-reaching since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip by force in June 2007
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