by nifc-phil-mike | Sep 23, 2019 | News
This summer, NIFC was lucky to have Samara Lewis, a student at Carleton University, join us for a four-month internship. Samara is studying Global and International Studies with a specialization in Global Development and a Minor in African Studies, and is going into...
by nifc-phil-mike | Sep 23, 2019 | News, NIF
NIFC’s project partner, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), and the Association of Ethiopian Jews (AEJ) have petitioned the Supreme Court to limit the Israeli police practice of profiling people and demanding ID papers. Such police conduct has...
by nifc-phil-mike | Sep 12, 2019 | News
Over 280 attendees joined us at this year’s Shira Herzog Symposium at Hot Docs. We were thrilled to host three leaders of NIFC’s funded projects in Israel – experts, activists, and defenders of democracy. Tamar Rechnitz, Mohammad Darawshe, and Aviv Tatarsky...
by nifc-phil-mike | Aug 9, 2019 | News, Palestinian Citizens of Israel
An OpEd by NIF’s Rabbi Ayelet Cohen and Rabbi Ephraim Pelcovits Originally published in the Forward Many progressive Jews struggle with whether Tisha B’av still has resonance when Judaism has evolved so far beyond Temple service. We wonder whether a full day of...
by nifc-phil-mike | Jun 28, 2019 | News
There’s a widening chasm in values between Canada and Israel. Is it irreversible? Israel’s political map is presently deeply divided – nearly 50/50 split between left and right political perspectives. Yet solid majorities still confess to support the two-state...
