Rotem A. Oreg
Israel Can Accept Biden's Plan for a Ceasefire, But...
Last month, founder and director of the Israeli-Democratic Alliance Rotem Oreg visited the U.S. Congress for the second time this spring,...
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Rotem A. Oreg
Apr 161 min
Public Diplomacy Mission, part 2
The second half of a public diplomacy mission is behind us. While last time we focused on the Northeast, this one was centered on the Sun...
Rotem A. Oreg
Apr 111 min
Public Diplomacy Mission, part 1
Half of the public diplomacy mission is behind. Four days in Washington DC, NYC, and Boston, during which we did one thing: presented and...
Rotem A. Oreg
Jan 54 min
The World is not divided into Friends of Israel and Antisemites
Let's start from the end: the outgoing president of Harvard University, Dr. Claudine Gay, is not the issue. She was a "lame duck" from...
Rotem A. Oreg
Dec 22, 20234 min
I am a left-wing IDF reservist. Ceasefire is a bad idea.
(written by Doron Shabti, a social worker and an IDF reservist) As you are reading this, I'm back reserve duty and going off the grid, so...
Rotem A. Oreg
Dec 19, 20232 min
The War in Gaza: On Jews, Justice, and Gen-Z
Ceasefire is a Bad Idea - for Israelis, Palestinians, and for Justice "I truly believe that my friends who express concern for the...
Rotem A. Oreg
Sep 15, 20232 min
The Year of Democracy
The Hebrew year of 5783 (HaTashpag) felt like the opening of A Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,...
Yuval David
Aug 5, 20234 min
Zionism is Progressivism? Deciphering the Progressive Liberal Jewish Discourse on Israel
The intricate symbiosis between Progressive Liberal Jews and the State of Israel extends beyond a simple narrative of mutual appreciation...
Rotem A. Oreg
Jul 20, 20232 min
The U.S.-Israel Relations: Rise and Fall?
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," says the first line in A Tale of Two Cities, and whilst originally written about...
Rotem A. Oreg
Jul 15, 20232 min
From the rebellion against Rome to the U.S.-Israel, nothing changed (by Yishay Kimmelman)
Those are days of self-reflection. A painful reminded to the consequences of the fools who thought to go against Rome, arrogance for...
Rotem A. Oreg
Jun 10, 20232 min
VP Harris: We have achieved so much together, there is still so much more work to do.
Last week, the Israeli Embassy in Washington hosted an Independence Day reception, featuring Vice President Kamala Harris as the keynote...
Rotem A. Oreg
May 13, 20231 min
Every decent human needs to be grateful for Iron Dome
The Iron Dome system is saving countless lives and preventing untold amounts of damage. Without this technology, the death toll and...
Rotem A. Oreg
May 7, 20232 min
"We don't have a choice but Liberal Zionism."
"We don't have a choice but Liberal Zionism." Those were the words of one of the participants in a Zoom call we have this week with the...
Rotem A. Oreg
Mar 23, 20233 min
The Strange Case of Jennifer Klain
(From the statement of Rotem Oreg, director of the Israeli-Democratic Alliance, in an emergancy conference at the Knesset regarding...
Rotem A. Oreg
Nov 1, 20221 min
Israel may become a Republican state (by Michal Porat)
The danger of an “all-right" government: every vote for Netanyahu, Smotritz/Ben Gvir or anyone from this bloc who announced that he would...
Rotem A. Oreg
Oct 3, 20224 min
The Israeli-Democratic Alliance is celebrating its first year of activity and its achievements!
It's election time: in the United States, MAGA Republicans are seeking to roll back all the progress that was made in the past few...
Rotem A. Oreg
Aug 28, 20222 min
Now is the time for Progressive Zionists
"After centuries in diaspora, Israel now serves as a sanctuary to the Jewish people who have been and are still very much an oppressed...
Rotem A. Oreg
Aug 19, 20222 min
The long road to progress
This was a historic week for the United States: while a far cry from his original climate action plan, President Biden signed into law...
Rotem A. Oreg
Aug 6, 20222 min
Three things to know about the conflict in Gaza
I didn't want to write this post. I wanted to write about our American-Israeli panel on fighting domestic & sexual violence, which will...
Rotem A. Oreg
Jul 29, 20221 min
Violence knows no boundaries - and it hurst everyone
Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence are pandemics, plain and simple: they are more widespread than we want to believe; they can strike...
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