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You wouldn’t know it from the ignorance and unjustified alarmism about Europe in Israel and America, but European Jewish...

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The Jews of Europe and the Israel-Palestine conflict

Mark Goldberg and Daniel Levy

Daniel Levy recently gave a lecture to a JPR audience about the Israel-Palestine conflict and how it affects the Jews of Europe. A former advisor in the Israeli Prime Minister’s office, he was the lead Israeli drafter of the Geneva Initiative and is currently the Director of Prospects for Peace Initiative and Senior Fellow of the Century Foundation and of the New America Foundation in Washington DC. The lecture was chaired by JPR Board Member Mark Goldberg.

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Making more of Europe: perils and prospects of European Jewish advocacy

Panelists Jerome Chanes, Gidon Van Emden, Tony Lerman, Nick Lambert and Jean-Jacques Wahl

A JPR policy seminar was held in February to explore the problems of developing European Jewish advocacy, cooperation and effective representation of European Jewish interests. Forty people attended, representing many of the organisations involved in this work in Europe: B’nai B’rith, the European Council of Jewish Communities, the American Jewish Joint Distribution, the Anglo-Jewish Association.

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Multiculturalism: bringing us together or driving us apart?

Participants at the Multiculturalism round table

A round table discussion organized jointly by JPR and the Runnymede Trust was held in March to examine the various critiques of multiculturalism and the arguments in its defence. The aim was to consider whether multiculturalism can be made relevant again for 21st century Britain or whether it needs to be replaced.

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Is Europe good for the Jews?

Dr Diana Pinto, Tony Lerman and Dr Steven Beller

Is Europe today uniquely favourable or uniquely threatening to Jews? This was the question examined by a seminar held in April to launch Dr Steven Beller’s JPR policy debate paper, entitled Is Europe good for the Jews? Jews and the pluralist tradition in historical perspective. At the seminar Dr Beller presented some of the arguments he outlined in his paper, and a response was given by Dr Diana Pinto. The discussion was chaired by Antony Lerman, JPR’s Executive Director. The seminar was attended by a wide range of academics, Jewish communal professionals and rabbis.

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Wednesday 7 May 2008
A Personal appreciation of William Frankel CBE by Tony Lerman

Thursday 24 Apr 2008
William Frankel CBE, Vice-President of JPR, dies aged 91

Tuesday 22 Apr 2008
Is Europe good for the Jews? Jews and the pluralist tradition in historical perspective

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Is Europe good for the Jews? Jews and the pluralist tradition in historical perspective

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Sacralization by stealth

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