By: Dan Seligson, Director, Israel Advocacy Marketing and Crisis Communications, CJP
There are some undeniable historical facts from the 1967 Six-Day War; Israel, beset on three sides by enemies, scored a surprising, and some would say miraculous, military victory. In doing so, the tiny…
By: Elisha Gechter
I needed another commitment like I needed a hole in the head. And I thought I needed another conversation about Israel like I needed a hole in the head. But this past fall I said yes to being on the Task Force to help guide the new CommUNITY Israel Dialogue that CJP is ro…
By: Jeremy Burton, Executive Director, JCRC Boston
At last week’s kickoff event for the CommUNITY Israel Dialogue, we honored the life and legacy of Shimon Peres. Israel’s former Consul General to New England Nadav Tamir began by sharing one of Peres’ guiding principles: unfettered op…
By Gil Preuss, Executive Vice President, CJP
Last spring, at the height of the presidential campaign, The Wall Street Journal created a real-time news tracker by collecting trending news stories on Facebook. The tool offered a side-by-side look at conversations on current events from …
By Neil Wallack, CJP Board Chair
“If you won’t be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?” – Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
We are blessed here in Boston to live in one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in the United States --and it’s probably not …
