by Hannah Cohen | Nov 29, 2023 | Shared Society and Combatting Racism
Photo credit: Gili Getz By Libby Lenkinski, NIF US VP of Public Engagement November 17, 2023 Let me tell you about the week I had. From the moment our friends, the co-directors of Standing Together (עומדים ביחד – نقف معًا) Sally Abed and Alon-Lee Green, landed here in...
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 29, 2023 | Human and Civil Rights
Earlier this year, NIFC approved emergency funding for a project with Haqel – In Defense of Human Rights, a Jewish-Arab human rights group that works in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Throughout the year, settler violence against Palestinians in the West...
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 28, 2023 | New Generations
Last week, the two Ottawa-based NIFC Naomi Chazan Fellows, Sarah Broitman and Pauley Tedoff, hosted a Shabbat dinner for a group of 17 young Jews in Ottawa. The large majority of guests were new to NIFC’s work. They reflected on the past month, their experiences...
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 24, 2023 | News
Responding to the news that fifty Israeli hostages are coming home and 150 Palestinian women and children are being released from Israeli jails as part of a ceasefire deal between Israel’s government and Hamas, NIF International CEO Daniel Sokatch released the...
by Hannah Cohen | Nov 14, 2023 | News
On November 13th, we learned that Israeli-Canadian Vivian Silver – believed captured in Gaza – was murdered in her home in Be’eri. It took 5 weeks for them to identify her body....
