by Lauren Zilberman | Mar 27, 2026 | Human and Civil Rights, NIF, Shared Society and Combatting Racism
By: Mickey Gitzin, Acting CEO of the New Israel Fund Just over eight months ago, I was sitting in a shelter in Israel after the first 12-day Israel-Iran-US war. I listened to U.S. President Donald Trump say that the Iranian nuclear program had been “obliterated,”...
by Lauren Zilberman | Mar 27, 2026 | Human and Civil Rights, Shared Society and Combatting Racism
This reflection follows our event “Turning Hope into Action: Conversations with an Israeli and a Palestinian” that was held on March 16th at Temple Beth Sholom in Vancouver in collaboration with JSpaceCanada. By: Avril Orloff It was 4-ish in the morning in...
by Lauren Zilberman | Mar 27, 2026 | Human and Civil Rights, Shared Society and Combatting Racism
Please include this supplement by NIFC Rabbinical Council member Rabbi Micah Streiffer in your Passover Seder. You can read the full text below or click here to download a printable PDF version.
by Lauren Zilberman | Mar 27, 2026 | Human and Civil Rights, Shared Society and Combatting Racism
Just this past weekend, a group of settlers rampaged through at least six different locations near Jenin and Nablus, setting fire to homes and cars and viciously beating anyone who tried to stand in their way. This is only the latest in a string of attacks by settlers...
by Lauren Zilberman | Mar 13, 2026 | Human and Civil Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel
When missiles fall across Israel, millions of Israelis make their way to nearby bomb shelters. But because successive Israeli governments have refused to recognize Bedouin villages, and continued—year after year—to deprive them of basic services, including access to...
by Lauren Zilberman | Feb 20, 2026 | Human and Civil Rights, NIF
As I write this, I’m flying home from Israel after a week in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem meeting with our Israeli partners and friends. Their determination is powerfully infectious. And yet I’m also feeling dread, because rising expectations of war with Iran have sent me...
