by Lauren Zilberman | Apr 24, 2026 | New Initiatives for Democracy, News
Last week, the unthinkable happened: Viktor Orbán lost an election. Péter Magyar defeated the far-right populist Prime Minister and thousands of Hungarians took to the streets to celebrate. What would it take to change Israel’s political trajectory? In the leadup to...
by Lauren Zilberman | Apr 24, 2026 | Human and Civil Rights, Shared Society and Combatting Racism
Maoz Inon’s parents were killed by Hamas on October 7. Aziz Abu Sarah’s brother died after being detained and abused by the Israeli army. The world would’ve expected them to be enemies, but instead, they became brothers. Their new book, The Future Is Peace, takes...
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 | New Initiatives for Democracy
After an anti-war protest in Tel Aviv several weeks ago, a protester was arrested. Why? He had stepped in to protect another protester when an ultra-nationalist agitator targeted her. The NIF network and its partners were immediately on the scene: NIFC partner The...
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.
