NIF Upcoming Events October - November

 HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD DINNER 2011

                         Guest Speaker - A.B Yehoshua

                         Sunday 6th November 

                         For more details & to request an invitation please

                                 email amit@uknif.org

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NIF Benefit Screening @ UKJFF - Strangers No More

Join New Israel Fund and NIF New Generation to a Benefit Screening of the Oscar winning documentary film Strangets No More, followed by a discussion and an after-party at the cinema's bar.

Saturday 19th November 2011, 8-10pm at Odeon Swiss Cottage

Click Here to book your benefit tickets

Message from our Chief Executive, Adam Ognall

You have been hearing a lot from NIF about the social protests in Israel. It was the theme of our Rosh Hashana video greeting and at the centre of our Rosh Hashana Appeal Card. The Card ‘Israel’s Future Starts Here’ features a few of the inspiring people in Israel we work with, such as Eran Buchenwald who works with poor communities, particularly youth, in the Negev to encourage enterprise.

Social Justice Demonstrators Dominate Haaretz 100 Top People 5771 List

Haaretz has named its 100 most influential people of 5771, and in a departure from its normal procedure, the paper placed a rather large group in first place:

"You – the Israeli public who in the summer of 2011 took its own fate into its hands."

NIF Online Petition Makes Media Headlines in Israel

An online petition organised by NIF and signed by nearly 4,000 Jews worldwide in support of the Israeli social justice protests made major media headlines in Israel ahead of the largest of the mass social protest demonstrations. A full-page advert about the petition, including thousands of signatories, appeared in the Israeli edition of the International Herald Tribune.

A Haifa Story: Sharing Art and Culture

More than 1,000 people revelled in a showcase of Haifa’s cultural wealth at the first-ever Haifa Story Festival. Co-produced by SHATIL’s Haifa as a Shared City initiative, local activists, and Et LeShinuy (A Pen for Change), the Festival, which was sponsored by the American Embassy, brought together Haifa’s diverse residents in celebration of one another’s culture and history.

Court Orders Man to Pay Compensation for Persuading Brother Not to Divorce Wife

In a precedent-setting decision, the Jerusalem Family Affairs Court ordered a man to pay over £6,000 in compensation to his sister-in-law because he persuaded his brother not to grant her a divorce. The woman was represented by NIF grantee Mavoi Satum (Dead End), which is a member of the International Coalition for Agunah Rights (ICAR), also supported by NIF. According to Jewish, and thus Israeli law, a woman who does not receive a religious divorce from her husband is known as an agunah, or chained woman, and cannot remarry.

NIF Survey - NIF wants to hear from you.

We would be grateful if you would share your views on NIF in our short survey. Click here. It should take less than 5 minutes to complete and will really help us better work with you. Thank you.

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/613647/NIF

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