Gidi Grinstein

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Feb 11, 2024, 6:00 PM

Palestinian statehood: Do it right

Israeli workers hang large Palestinian and Israeli flags as part of a campaign, in Ramat Gan, June 1, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Handled properly, US recognition of the PA as a nascent state could turn the current breakdown into a breakthrough toward peace

Mar 4, 2023, 10:07 PM

Israeli Government, Global Herd: Defeat Inevitable

My right-wing friends, supporters of reforming the Israeli judicial system: You have the power to influence your representatives in the Knesset to stop the enactment of the judicial reform and reassess its path. Although it is a bit difficult...

Dec 29, 2022, 4:29 PM

Where is the Herzl of American Jewry?

Israel’s election generated a massive earthquake across Israeli society and the Jewish world. The swearing in of Israel’s new government today sends an even more powerful aftershock that will inevitably disrupt American Jewry. One consequence will be unprecedented opportunities...

Sep 6, 2021, 11:25 AM

Rosh HaShana Summons American Jewry to Greatness

Special Tribute to Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z”l Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z”l, one the greatest Jewish thought leaders of our time, who passed away in 5781 wrote in his opening essay to the Koren Siddur: "On Rosh HaShana and...

Jun 24, 2020, 1:41 PM

The Lubavitcher light on my at-50 bar mitzvah

A Tribute to the Yahrzeit of the Rebbe Last Monday, I came to the Ohel, the burial place of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson to put Tefillin. Our long-time friend, Rabbi Levi Shemtov, the Chabad envoy in Washington D.C., made an...

May 25, 2020, 9:57 AM

Memorial Day to American Jewry: Be Bold

Memorial Day of 2020 calls upon American Jewry to be bold. Naturally, as we emerge from the COVID-19 crisis bruised and compromised, the instinct may be to bunker down. At the same time, there may have never been a...

Apr 21, 2020, 6:41 PM

The Grand Pivot of Jewish Education

A Series of Essays by Gidi Grinstein and Eran Shayshon The coronavirus is emerging to be a transformative event that is affecting many Jewish institutions, structures and patterns of conduct, and potentially affecting the entire Jewsh People. It may become...

Apr 12, 2020, 6:50 PM

Jewish People Grand Pivot Against Corona

A Series of Essays by Gidi Grinstein and Eran Shayshon The Coronavirus crisis emerges to be a huge disruption to the Jewish world at large, to Jewish communities worldwide and to Jewish life. Throughout history, pandemics have had far-reaching and...

Apr 7, 2020, 6:12 PM

The Grand Pivot Against Corona

A Series of Essays by Gidi Grinstein and Eran Shayshon The Reut Group is a strategy and leadership group dedicated to creating and scaling innovative solutions to challenges facing Israeli and Jewish society. In response to the Coronavirus crisis, the...

Jul 22, 2019, 5:50 PM

The moonshot thinking we all need

On July 20, 1969, fifty years ago, the world held its breath when the first human beings set foot on the moon. This was the culmination of a monumental American effort and of an epic battle with the Soviet...

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About Me

Gidi Grinstein is the founder and president of the Reut Institute, an Israel-based strategy and action group focused on effectuating change in areas critical to Israel’s future. He is the author of Flexigidity: The Secret of Jewish Adaptability.