by nifc-phil-mike | Jan 27, 2020 | News
By Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund. We’re just over three weeks into 2020, and it feels like months have passed. The slow-burn constitutional crisis in Israel is in full-swing, as the indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Knesset allies face...
by nifc-phil-mike | Jan 27, 2020 | News
Continuing our series of profiles of NIFC leaders, this month we focus on Tema Smith. Tema is currently director of professional development at InterfaithFamily, an organization that empowers people in interfaith relationships to engage in Jewish life. She is a...
by nifc-phil-mike | Jan 27, 2020 | News
Dafna Strauss has been a valued NIFC leader and has now moved to Israel to join so many other Israelis fighting for progressive values. Here, she reflects on her decision to make aliyah. I was 15 years old when I heard that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had...
by nifc-phil-mike | Jan 24, 2020 | Human and Civil Rights, News, Religious Freedom
Israeli mayors and educators mobilized to condemn homophobia after Israel’s interim Education Minister Rafi Peretz made hateful comments earlier this month about LGBTQ people. Peretz, who has previously voiced support for gay conversion therapy, was asked in an...
by nifc-phil-mike | Dec 17, 2019 | News
The New Israel Fund of Canada is based on a simple idea: People like you and me who care about Israel can join together, make strategic investments in social change, and help Israel to be a free and open society. In 2019, you and nearly a thousand other Canadians like...
