Author Archive: New Israel Fund

Review of 2013 Election Results Listen to the recording of a conference call NIF hosted on January 23rd featuring former Ha’aretz chief political columnist and editorial writer Akiva Eldar, in conversation with author and journalist Liel Leibovitz.  The two discussed the outcomes and potential effects of the elections.

A recording of a conference call featuring former NIF President Professor Naomi Chazan, in conversation with NIF International Council member Professor Michael Walzer, offering their views concerning the upcoming elections in Israel.

More and more, it seems as if the world’s two largest Jewish communities are watching each other through the rear-view mirror as they move further apart. U.S. Jews must find ways to support progressive voices in Israel whose values we share as they fight to take back their country. By Daniel Sokatch | Jan.14, 2013…

by Rabbi Seth Winberg, Assistant Director of the University of Michigan Hillel Israeli Chief Rabbi Shlomo Shlomo Amar says that non-Orthodox rabbis are “destroyers who have already brought terrible and horrific destruction on the Jewish People in the Diaspora.” Rabbi Amar issued his letter last month to protest Israeli Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein’s order for…

June 18, 2012 Tag Meir — a coalition of Israeli organizations convened by NIF — sent the following letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Prime Minister MK Benjamin Netanyahu Jerusalem Dear Mr. Netanyahu, Re: Price Tag – A Strategic Threat We — the members of the Coalition Tag Meir (Bright Tag) comprising non-profit organizations…

by Stephen Slater I met George Kulang in 2007, he had heard of the plight of Sudanese refugees fleeing first from genocide, and then racism and state sanctioned murder in Egypt. Like myself, he had arrived recently in Jerusalem. I was part of a group of student activists from Hebrew University, where I was studying…

by Rabbi Joshua Hammerman Just as the so-called “War on Women” has become a major issue in American politics, it appears likely that it will be prime subject in the upcoming Israeli campaign. Pundits and politicians from around the world, including Hilary Clinton, have joined Israelis in questioning continued segregation, discrimination and humiliation of women…

by Noam Shelef Social change is a long, drawn out process, frustratingly so. Sometimes it’s hard to decide whether to welcome modest change, or wait to celebrate until the change amounts to a significant revolution. Two of our colleagues — Rabbi David Rosenn (our COO) and Naomi Paiss (our Communications Director) — had an instructive…

Imagine what Israel will look like on its 100th birthday. Israel of 2012 is a place of stark contradictions. For most Jews, Israel is a dream fulfilled: a national home and a place of their own. It is also a homeland for Palestinians who also seek a state of their own. Israel is a boisterous…