How many refugees has Israel accepted in 64 years?
From the Presidents Conference in Jerusalem in June 2012, Jewish leaders were asked a single question: “Since 1948, how many non-Jewish people has the State of Israel accepted as refugees?” Due notice...
View ArticleAnd you thought American elections ads were bad
Have you entered Jewschool and Mah Rabu’s elections predictions pool? Monday, January 21st at midnight EST is your last chance to enter! I’m finding two big differences between American and Israeli...
View ArticleMishegas: MLK, Phillip Roth, Mel Brooks and Hitler
Above, the Jewish Food Justice Fellowship launches in Southern California. Should the Jews make Martin Luther King Jr. Day about Israel? Stuart Appelbaum of the Jewish Labor Committee says MLK’s...
View Article2013 Knesset Elections Results
According to Israel’s Channel 2 TV news, this is the breakdown of the next Knesset: Likud Beiteinu: 31 (-11) Yesh Atid: 19 (+11) Labor: 17 (+9) The Jewish Home: 12 (+7) Shas: 12 (+2) HaTnua: 7 (+7)...
View ArticleApply for the 2013 Hollander Social Justice Fellowship — due Thursday
Do you have a social justice cause you are passionate about and want to pursue with the NHC Summer Institute community? Apply for the Hollander Social Justice Fellowship! You will receive a scholarship...
View Article“Liberating” the Western Wall — again
This morning in Jerusalem, the Women of the Wall brought heavy Israeli symbolism along with 150 participants to their monthly peaceful protest — three of the IDF veterans who captured the wall in the...
View ArticleAction alert: Eritrean asylum seekers to be deported
From the young activists in Israel with Amnesty International, an urgent appeal to Diaspora Jews who remember the times when we were refugees: STOP THE DEPORTATION OF 25 ERITREAN ASLYUM SEEKERS FROM...
View ArticleUltra-orthodox call for protest rally against Women of the Wall; support...
This weekend, a poster appeared all over ultra-orthodox neighborhoods in Jerusalem against Women of the Wall‘s fight for gender equality at holy sites in Israel. The poster calls for ultra-Orthodox...
View ArticleA Newly Feminist Knesset — Sort Of (Updated)
Updated: New ministerial positions were appointed since time of publishing, including two more women. There are 53 new faces in the 19th Knesset — 16 of them women. With the 11 women who retained their...
View ArticleService learning programs in Israel will widen the generation gap — thankfully
At the Forward, Repair the World and the Jewish Agency present their new study of service learning opportunities for young North American Jews. They argue that addressing societal needs in Israel — a...
View ArticleNaftali Bennett interrupted at MASA bash by anti-annexation chants
Thirty young MASA participants and other young Diaspora Jews stood up at their program’s end-year bash to interrupt the address of Minister of Knesset Naftali Bennett, leader of the right-wing Jewish...
View ArticleThis is Not an Ulpan
While I deeply love learning Hebrew, ulpan often hurts my heart. I can’t help but bristle at prejudicial Israeli attitudes that go against the anti-oppression work that bring many of us there. Be they...
View ArticleTwo Prayers for Syria (and updated with more)
What can we pray about Syria? As the United States looks to enter the fray of a Syrian civil war, concerned American Jews and Israelis are penning responses in prayer. Shared here are two recent...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner and angry Jewish voter discuss forgiveness
This via our friends at HEEB, just in time for Rosh Hashanah, an exchange on the nature of forgiveness, leadership, judgement and God between an angry Jewish voter and New York mayoral candidate...
View ArticleIsrael mishegas: Tel Aviv’s gay Shoah memorial, new fellowships, and fascists
Tel Aviv will build its first holocaust memorial to gay victims in Gan Meir next to Tel Aviv Municipality’s LGBTQ Center. Other cities with one already: Berlin, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Sydney and San...
View ArticleYoung American Jews arrested in Hebron on Shabbat Hayei Sarah
This just in, just in time for this year’s Project Hayei Sarah: Members of All That’s Left, a collective of activists committed to ending the occupation, marked the eve of ‘Shabbat Chayei Sarah’ by...
View ArticleFear-mongering on Iran meets LOLcatz
They say mockery is highest form of flattery, right? A web commentator (who prefers to remain anonymous) forwarded around this graffitied explanation of The Israel Project’s latest infographic. This is...
View ArticleAction alert: Tell Israel to halt bill to imprison African refugees
I’ll never understand why Israeli leaders — who annually welcome some 150,000+ migrant workers into the country from Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe — are continually trying to deport, imprison and...
View ArticleObama makes Thanksgivingukah statement
Whether you love it or hate it, “Thanksgivingukah” has reached the highest political echelon of America: President Barak Obama issued a Thanksgivingukah best wishes. Complete with recipes for the dual...
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