Aliza Lavie

Aliza Lavie is the Chair of the Herzl Center, an Israeli academic, and politician. She served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid between 2013 and 2019, and is a senior lecturer at the School of Communication at Bar-Ilan University.

AMERICAN AND Israeli Orthodox and Conservative Jews protest outside the Chief Rabbinate offices in Jerusalem, against the rabbinate’s disqualification of American rabbis’ conversions in July 2016.

Jewish conversion law aside, we need to respect each other first

At the “entrance gate” to the Jewish people stand those who prefer to live in social ghettos and avoid seeing the vital national value of conversion.

MARCH 8, 2021

WOMEN DEMANDING inclusion on the Shas and United Torah Judaism party lists for the upcoming election demonstrate outside the Knesset in Jerusalem last month.

Women are a majority in the public, a minority in the Knesset - opinion

The solution is to lead to the regulation of fixed quotas for the adequate representation of women in leadership.

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

A DEMONSTRATOR takes part in a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid Israel’s second nationwide lockdown, in Jerusalem on October 10.

Developing a new Israeli language to unite a divided nation – opinion

More than 70 years after the State of Israel’s independence, however, a considerable proportion of our original, shared language has been eroded.

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Seth Rogen shows the generational divide in North American Jewry – opinion

When a family is in crisis, the situation needs to be resolved as a family: through talking about it, arguing points and reinstating trust among ourselves.

AUGUST 18, 2020