Diaspora

Behar-Bechukotai:

You are a Jew! A crucial and timely lesson

Many great Rabbis have revealed that the murderous antagonism of the gentiles surfaces when the Jews fall in love with galut.

A call to Diaspora spiritual leadership:

Where have all the Rabbis gone?

Borrowing the title of Pete Seeger's song to hammer home a message to Diaspora Jewish leaders.

Why not build the Holy Temple in LA?

If we understood even a fraction of the true universal influence of the meeting of the Jewish Neshama (soul) with the Holy Land, an influence which infuses a higher life to all existence, we would not ask that question.

The Diaspora jig is up

American Jews should take action now to protect their lives, fortunes and honor. Now that conservatives are collecting Qatari bribes too, expect a further corruption of institutions meant to protect you, perhaps including the next administration’s FBI. Opinion.

The ultimate goal:

To make all Jews one international community

In new 'Jewish-Share' episode, Rabbi Dr. Tropper and Rabbi Kantor reflect on the need for Israelis to feel a bond with Diaspora Jews.

Diasporism 2025

You don’t have to listen to me. Listen to Moshe. Listen to the roaring echo of his words, resounding out today over the anti-Semitic prairies and cities of America. Come home and keep the Torah as it should be kept!

Haftarah for the Three Weeks and beyond:

Engaging with the Diaspora

Like the haftarot for this special season, which begin with rebuke and end with comfort , our collective Jewish story is one of shared struggle and hope.

Connecting Israel & Diaspora:

From the Galilee to Melbourne

Watch the second episode of a new series - Israelis connect with their brethren around the world and talk about antisemitism, the Gaza war and the ties that exist between the communities, despite the distance.

Connecting Israel & Diaspora

From Beit Shemeh to Philadelphia

Watch the first episode of a new series - Israelis connect with their brethren around the world.

Diaspora teachers deal with pedagogy while fighting antisemitism

Fifteen teachers from Jewish schools around the world came to Israel in July for an intensive 2.5-week study program and shared their common experiences of antisemitism in their communities.

Torah Mitzion:

17th of Tammuz - The dilemma of two Jews on a desert island

Unity or division - which will it be?

Synagogue turned carpentry workshop to undergo preservation

A Jewish man who loves history visited the city of Illintsi in Ukraine and discovered an ancient synagogue that had been converted into a carpentry workshop over the years. The site is due to undergo preservation.

My Fellow Rabbis – To the Land of Israel!

The mitzvah of the moment is to awaken your congregations to take immediate steps to begin the process of Aliyah.

Columbia Prof. Shai Davidai:

'Jewish students are strong, they need our back'

Prof. Davidai to Arutz Sheva: “The Jewish students and Jewish community are strong. They are resilient. All they need is us the older generation to come and tell them, ‘Whatever you need, we have your back,’ because they are incredible.”

Israel and Diaspora Jewry's fates are linked together

Today we see and feel the unity and resilience of mainstream Jewry together with Israel.

'Let my people stay' - in the Diaspora?

Instead of reading the handwriting on the wall, Diaspora Jews are begging Gentile governments for the chance to stay where they are. For Theodore Herzl's birthday.

The failure of Diaspora leadership

Why is it that a notable number of Jewish American youth feel not just an estrangement towards Zionism, but also antipathy? How did Diaspora leaders let this happen?

The Diaspora Torch:

'For all those that heard the call'

One of the torches this evening honored the many Jewish communities outside of Israel who rushed to help when the war broke out.

Herzog:

'We continue to fight for what matters - a free, secure Israel'

President Isaac Herzog sends a message to the Jewish communities of the world of unity and mutual responsibility, and his hope for the swift return of the hostages and of peace.

The crucial ingredient for Jewish survival

This week, the Chief Rabbi identifies the crucial ingredient for Jewish survival over thousands of years.

Do you belong?

On the surface, we are just like our neighbors in the Diaspora. But we are not really the same. We don't belong and they ensure we know it.

IDF spokesman to Jewish diaspora: We are all together, all Jews

IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari encouraged Jews around the world in the face of growing warnings of terrorist attacks.

The Sukkah as a parable for the Diaspora - it's only temporary

Eventually, if you try to live in it after the holiday, a sukkah will collapse. Come back inside, come home.

Diaspora leaders meet Congressman Nick Langworthy

Congressman Nick Langworthy said that his trip to Israel in 2019 with Governor Mike Huckabee and Dr. Joseph Frager was “transformative.”

Balak: Welcome back, Diaspora shul-goers

The double parashah which communities in exile will read this week, Chukkat-Balak, can happen only in exile, never in Israel.

European Jewish Association:

'Denouncing Diaspora Minister is reckless and irresponsible'

The European Jewish Association publishes scathing retort to a call for students to 'turn their backs on Minister Chikli'.

Office of the UK Chief Rabbi

Naso (Diaspora): Why is peace like a suitcase?

Peace contains everything for a good life.

President of Euro. Rabbis:

We have to look at the reality, not everything is bad

Rabbi Goldschmidt, President of the Conference of European Rabbis, speaks about relocating to Germany and updates on EU Jewish communities.

How can it be?

How did this tiny, persecuted dispersed people survive and come home after two thousand years? How did they survive at all? Op-ed.

Purim’s message for us today

Two incidents from which all of us can gleam a bit of understanding about assimilation today and the eternity of Torah.

Conference of Presidents CEO:

Israel must continue to engage with US Jews to ensure unity

William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents, speaks about a unifying consensus around judicial reform.

Iran planning hit squads to assassinate diaspora Jews

French journalist details Iran’s “mapping” of high-level global Jewish targets in event of Israeli attack on nuclear program.

The Diaspora schools project

This is not a second Holocaust.  It has another name:  Assimilation. Our numbers in the Diaspora are getting smaller and smaller. Op-ed.

The Parsha and Current Events: Be on the winning side!

It is not easy to be a Jacob in a world of Esaus but it is the Jacobs who will survive and guarantee the eternal existence of Am Yisrael.

Vayetze: Appeasement vs. Confrontation

Jacob has a dual mode of action. In the galut, the Jewish people made use of one, but in their own land, they can choose the other.

Esau hates Jacob

It is axiomatic, says the Talmud, that Esau hates Jacob. That has not changed.

Diaspora Blues

They didn’t want Netanyahu. Now that they have him, they want him to govern in the opposite manner from which he pledged to govern. Op-ed.

Op-ed:

Israeli corruption law must be the same for all politicians

Charges that Diaspora Min. funds were misappropriated should be treated the same as the accusations against Benjamin Netanyahu. Op-ed.

No Torah in the Diaspora? How can it be?

When Am Yisrael is scattered and out of its place, then the Name of G-d, which is the Torah, cannot come to full expression in this world

Celebrating the connection to Jewish Diaspora

“We're giving focus on what it means to be part of a global Jewish community, what it means to be an Israeli citizen of that community."

Diaspora Week to celebrate Israel's ties with global Jewry

'World Jewry is our flesh and blood, the bonds between us are more important than ever,' Diaspora Min. Nachman Shai says.

Yankelevich: Jewish Agency should lead relations with Diaspora

Former Diaspora Minister Omer Yankelevich: "The Jewish Agency is better suited to be the leading factor in connection with Diaspora Jewry."

A new head for the Jewish Agency

Today’s post-Zionist orientation is an acceptance and even legitimization of the Exile. We need a new head with "a new head." Op-ed.

We need Israel Outreach

Religious Diaspora Jews lack the national identity of secular Israeli Jews and many religious Jews of Israel also lack that identity. Op-ed.

'The right to enter Israel is the birthright of every Jew'

The Chief Rabbi of South Africa, Rabbi Warren Goldstein, says that Israel's travel ban has been traumatic for Diaspora Jews.

Survey: Israel's Covid policies hurt ties with Diaspora Jewry

Survey reveals that 80% of Israelis are concerned about growing antisemitism worldwide.

At Least Let My People In

Visits to Israel are desperately needed for Diaspora Jews of all streams, no matter what their level of affiliation. Opinion.

"Generational damage"

Miss Universe is ok but visiting Jews are not?

Rabbi Elchanan Poupko questions why Israel is not allowing American Jews to enter but makes exceptions for events such as Miss Universe.

The halakhot of V’tein Tal U’Matar

In Israel we began saying the prayer for rain in the Silent Prayer weeks before it is said in the Diaspora.. What happens if we forget?

Spiritual Effects of Diaspora

The Spiritual Effects of Diaspora (VaEtchanan)

In a 3-minute video, Baruch Gordon connects the centrality of the Land of Israel to the weekly Torah reading of VaEtchanan.

The experience of Jewish children in diaspora schools

Have diaspora public schools ever been good for Jewish children? Are they today? Op-ed.

Connecting communities between Israel and the Diaspora

Arutz Sheva speaks to Noa Lewis of the Connecting Communities project as well as two rabbis whose communities now share a connection.

How did Diaspora communities survive Covid-19?

Arutz Sheva talks with Rabbi Shalom Axelrod of Young Israel of Woodmere and Rabbi Jaron Engelmayer, Chief Rabbi of Vienna.

Israel and Diaspora deficient in knowledge about each other

Survey by American Jewish Committee finds that both communities would like to learn more about each other but suffer from lack of education.

Will new government will affect Jewish Diaspora?

Dr. Shmuel Katz, co-founder of Stand With Us, talks with Arutz Sheva about how the new government will affect both the Diaspora and Israel.

Arutz Sheva administration meets officials in NY

Team meets with Ambassador Erdan, heads of Rabbinical Alliance of America, YU President and more.

Time to sober up

This growing inability to know good from evil keeps increasing numbers of people from recognizing the threats looming before them. Op-ed

Open your eyes!

The parsha and current events. Jethro, Isaiah and the Jews of the Diaspora who criticize Israel's religious level.

The Israel lobby is good for America

The Israel lobby plays a postiive domestic role in the US in addition to benefitting Israel.directly. Opinion.

Pollard and the great Jewish divide

Israelis celebrated the Pollards’ arrival. In contrast, US Jews bristled both at the news and the joy with which Israelis greeted them.Op-ed