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Welcoming the 2024-25 NIF Froman Social Change Rabbinical Fellows
Amidst the joyous holiday of Sukkot, we are thrilled to announce the 2024-2025 Elissa Froman Social Change Fellowship cohort in New York and Los Angeles. Throughout the week of Sukkot, we dwell in booths, sukkot, that represent the Clouds of Glory that protected the...
Bringing Arabs and Jews Together for a Day of Mourning and Hope
On October 9 2024, hundreds of Arabs and Jews from throughout Israel — including Jewish gap-year participants and young Bedouin — poured out of buses in front of Hebrew Union College. They were attending the “A Day of Pain; A Day of Hope,” event in which Shatil (NIF's...
Voices of Determination
Around the one year anniversary of October 7, NIFC is highlighting a few stories — out of thousands — of people who could have given in to anger and despair, but instead choose to dedicate themselves to building a future where peace, equality, justice, and democracy...
We Choose Freedom, Equality, and Peace for Both the Israeli and Palestinian People
By Dr. Yasmeen Abu Fraiha, NIF international board member On October 7 2023, I returned home at 10 PM after 15 tiring and exhausting hours of work in the emergency room of Soroka Hospital, in Israel’s southern city of Be’er Sheva. As I entered the door, one thought...
Israel’s Left Is Stronger Than We Think
By Mickey Gitzin, NIF's Director in Israel Something has changed in Israel’s public discourse over the summer months. Something disturbing, evoking anxiety. The right, like the entire country, was rattled after October 7, but it appears that Benjamin Netanyahu has...
Blocking Settler Violence With “Protective Presence”
With the ongoing, devastating war in Gaza and the threat of all-out war with Hezbollah along the Israel-Lebanon border, many in the diaspora and Israel have not been focused on the dramatic rise in settler violence. According to NIFC project partner Yesh Din, 2023 was...
Partnering with Haaretz for a Conference on Peace & Security
On Monday, September 16, the New Israel Fund held a conference on the intersection of security and politics in partnership with Israel’s newspaper of record, Haaretz, and the political-security joint program run by the Berel Katznelson Foundation and the Mitvim...
Advancing Gender Equity in Israel via Coalition Building
The consecutive crises of the past year and a half have made one thing clear: when women are absent from leadership positions, it leads to long-lasting, dramatic consequences. The ongoing war erupted against the backdrop of Israel’s democratic crisis, exacerbating the...
Why 18 Jewish clergy like me joined NIFC
By Cantor Cheryl Wunch It’s been a difficult year to be Jewish in Canada. It’s been difficult for observant Jews, secular Jews, Jewish students, and those of us who consider ourselves to be "professional Jews." Jewish clergy like me – rabbis, cantors, and other...
Pushing the Boulder Uphill Together: Reflections from Israel and the West Bank by a Naomi Chazan Fellow
Naomi Chazan Fellows and staff with former NIF President Prof. Naomi Chazan. My name is Syvanne Avitzur, and I am a 2024 Naomi Chazan Fellow, a New Generations Leadership Council Member, and a newly appointed board member of the New Israel Fund of Canada. This summer,...
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