Tag Archive: New York
How Radically Things Have Changed; How Much More Needs to Be Done
“Israel is better than the way this war is being waged.” ~José Andrés
Composing for Peace: A Concert for Social Change
Many musicians, including Mira Awad, Achinoam Nini (Noa), David Broza, and Peter Yarrow, came together in a celebration of the unique role that music and the arts play in social change and Israel today.
Don’t Ban Us From the Celebrate Israel Parade
NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch writes in The Forward about the politics of exclusion, and what comes next.
We Will Not Be Deterred
It seems silly at first. 100 men and women are planning to blow shofars outside the UJA-Federation office in New York this evening. They’re calling on the UJA to exclude NIF, Partners for a Progressive Israel, and B’Tselem from New York’s Celebrate Israel Parade based on the phony charge that we support the global BDS movement.
Why New Israel Fund Is Marching For Israel
On June 1, tens of thousands of New Yorkers will gather for the annual Celebrate Israel Parade. As in previous years, we at the New Israel Fund (NIF) will be there, leading a group of progressive, pro-Israel activists. We will take our rightful place alongside the many others dedicated to the Israel that is, as well as the Israel that ought to be.