Yossi Klein Halevi

Yossi Klein Halevi is a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Together with Imam Abdullah Antepli of Duke University and Maital Friedman, he co-directs the Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative. Yossi is the author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, a heartfelt plea for peace and new dialogue based on common ground in faith, published by HarperCollins in May 2018. He is also the author of Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation, published in 2013, which won the Jewish Book Council’s Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award.

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iEngage: I have no chief rabbi

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A Tisha B’Av Story


Thank you, AJC

Michael Freund’s attack on David Harris and the AJC is a classic example of the destructive ways in which we Jews too often conduct our debates.

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A time for healing

iENGAGE: The Three Weeks are an opportunity to pause in our endless arguments, and ask ourselves: Is this the Jewish people we want to be?

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iEngage: Time to end the disgrace at the Wall

US Jews should send message to Israeli gov't to create space for egalitarian prayer or protests will convene outside PM's office.

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iENGAGE: Time to End the Disgrace at the Wall

Haredi men who threw garbage at women in prayer shawls behaved like pogromists; silence in the haredi community added to the disgrace.

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iENGAGE: Needed, Israeli dialogue of mutual gratitude

Mainstream and haredi Israelis must start by acknowledging how the other has contributed to the astonishing post-Holocaust rebirth of the Jewish people.

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iEngage: Lessons from a man of peace

Froman was not a typical settler, journalists invariably noted when they wrote about him – as if there were such a thing.

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iENGAGE: The anxieties of American Jews

A starting point of a healthy American Jewish conversation on Israel would be acknowledging the agony of our dilemma.

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iENGAGE: The struggle for the Israeli Right

The outcome of that struggle will depend in no small measure on Netanyahu’s courage and will, and on Obama’s restraint in imposing one-sided pressure on Israel.

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iENGAGE: The rise of domestic Israel

At a dangerous moment in Israel’s history, most parties are focusing on internal issues in the current election campaign.

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The paradoxes of life in Israel

To be an Israeli at 60 is to be at once disappointed and awed.

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