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...
by Lauren Zilberman | Feb 20, 2026 | Human and Civil Rights, News
Responding to the Israeli government’s announcement that it will expand the Israeli military’s control over more of areas B and C in the West Bank, NIF Acting CEO Mickey Gitzin released the following statement: The State of Israel is now— in all practical terms—moving...
by Lauren Zilberman | Jan 16, 2026 | Human and Civil Rights, Shared Society and Combatting Racism
NIFC’s New Generations Leadership Council raised $1,000 through its New Gen (20s and 30s) year-end fundraising campaign in support of Yesh Din, an NIFC partner working to protect the human rights of Palestinians affected by settler violence in the West Bank. In light...