The Israeli Presidential Conference 2011

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Rabbi Gilah Dror: "There are many stories in the Talmud of rabbis who were too rigid in their application of the Torah. We have to be very careful about how we apply our Torah."

James Wolfensohn: "The power will shift to China and India by 2050 – at that time they will own 50% of global GDP,” adding that this swing to Asia is “turning the world on its head.”

President Alejandro Toledo, participating in the Israeli Presidential Conference for the first time, paid tribute to both President Shimon Peres and to the Israeli economy. “With a steadily growing economy, you are the clearly the chosen people: G-d was very generous with you and gave you no resources and surrounded you with neighbors with many natural resources.”

David Fischer:The world is currently experiencing a great shift from the “information web to the social web. Facebook is part of that evolution - rebuilding the web around people and changing the focus of ‘what’ to ‘who’- making the entire experience more personal”

William E. McCracken: Social media, availability of 4G networks, powerful and inexpensive devices, location (gps) availability, and the proliferation of mobile apps, have come together to create a perfect storm. It changes the way businesses think,” “Business models are being changed because of this technology and we must ensure that innocent intent doesn't become “mal-intent” due to lack of security. There is a disturbing lack of concern for those whose info is not secure.”

Wales: "Now is an exciting time (for the information world), as the next billion people will be coming online from previously ‘unconnected’ places and we are therefore still only at the beginning of a consumer generated media revolution.”

Eli Yishai:"There is deep meaning to this issue. We need agreement on the issue of conversion. It's not simple. There should be one conversion." "The process of conversion has to abide by halachic rules for the sake of the unity of the Jewish people and halacha should be kept by all of us"

Natan Sharansky: "The Law of Return or gathering of the exiles has two major problems, Halachic or Orthodox conversion, and relations between Israel and the Jewish Communities abroad. There must be one simple criteria as to who gets citizenship and who is a Jew."

Dr. Dov Maimon: "Lets start with one simple statement: To be a Jew is to belong to a religion and a people. Religion and ethnicity are complementary. Since modern times, the huge majority of Jews stopped practicing the religious covenant but still considered themselves Jewish."

Yaakov Neeman: "The central problem of the Jewish people right now is baseless hatred-simply hatred. We shouldn't care about how others pray. The Jewish people are varied in the same way that people's faces are not the same.""We have to prevent baseless hate. Love of the convert is not something new, it is in the Torah."

Safi Bahcall: "The more concerned Jews are, the more connected they feel with Israel."

Steven Cohen: "One of the biggest challenges to modern Judiasm is inter-marriage. Delegitimization is an inside the Jewish beltway issue. The problem is that Jews are friends with fewer Jews than in the past."

Silverman: If the Jewish guys in America where the adonises like they were here, there wouldn't be a problem. It was because of my sister that I came here. I didn't come before because of fear of the unknown. I'm liberal because I'm Jewish."

Matisyahu: "Jews are connected when someone tries to kill us."

Larry Summers: "No country in the world has better prospects and a more globally important role than the U.S. It is tempting to write off the U.S. and say that the 21st century will belong to someone else, but the US remains in a global role of strength and importance for the 21st century."

Rabbi Peter Knoebel: "The time has come to finally recognize the various streams in Judaism" "There is no solution to the problem to conversions as long as the Haredim control... Haredim are dictating the script & it is clear they are nullifying others' scripts - this means that we must end the Chief Rabbinate as we know it. If it weren't for political maneuvering, they would not be in the Rabbinate."

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