Human Rights Stories from Israel

At this session, Ellen Goldberg, Executive Director of New Israel Fund (NIF), will present human rights from Israel, accompanied with slides of the faces behind the stories. NIF is the leading organisation advancing democratic and progressive change within Israel.

Tikkun Leyl Shavuot

Liberal Jewish Synagogue

Thursday 28th May 2009

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Finchley Reform Synagogue

Tuesday 9th June 2009

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The Future of the Jewish People

A discussion with

Rabbi Michael Melchior

29th June 2009

Divisiveness and polarisation threaten the unity of world Jewry. We must create an agenda for the future of the Jewish people despite our religious and political differences...

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NEWS

You Tube video of Hillary Clinton visit with New Israel Fund grantee Supportive Community

Founded in 2003 by a group of successful businesswomen, immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Supportive Community (Sviva Tomechet) helps unempowered immigrant and veteran Israeli women to open small businesses and employ other unemployed women in order to escape the cycle of poverty.

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Turning Dreams into Reality: Education Students and People with Disabilities Join Hands for a Better Future

In a development that is already having impact in the field, SHATIL has been empowering people with physical and emotional disabilities to take control of their lives and work for society-wide change.

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Negev Neighbours Get-Together

With the existence of the unrecognised Negev Bedouin village Amra-Tarabin threatened by the expansion of the Jewish town of Omer, New Israel Fund grantees Negev Coexistence Forum and Regional Council for Unrecognised Negev Arab Villages (RCUV) organised a visit by dozens of Omer residents to the homes of their Bedouin neighbours last month.

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NIF Family Protests Welfare-to-Work Programme Expansion

As the global recession worsens, unemployment has risen sharply in Israel due the declining export market for Israeli goods and services. Following the government’s announcement that it will extend the “Employment Lights” (formerly known as the Wisconsin Plan) welfare-to-work programme to the entire country in order to combat unemployment, four members of the New Israel Fund family wrote a letter of protest, explaining the unresolved issues with the programme to new Minister of Finance Yuval Steinitz

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Gentrification in Israel’s Mixed Cities: Realities and Challenges

“A city is built for its citizens – a concept so simple but so far removed [from reality]” said Hadash MK Dov Khenin regarding the current reality faced by the Arab residents of Israel’s mixed Arab-Jewish cities. Khenin was one of some 15 speakers at the recent Land Day conference, Housing and Land Deprivation in Jaffa and other Mixed Cities – the Reality and the Challenges, hosted by New Israel Fund grantee Al Rabitha (League for the Arabs of Jaffa).

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Message from Ellen Goldberg, NIF Executive Director

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