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Dan Fleshler discusses Responding to the Delegitimization of Israel
Listen to Dan Fleshler as he describes the progressive Zionist response to the Radical Left's efforts to delegitimize Israel. Dan is introduced by Judith Gelman, Ameinu Vice President and Executive Committee Chair.
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Issues
Four Questions with Stav Shaffir, Israeli Social Protest Leader
By Questions posed by Ameinu- Answered by Stav Shaffir Stav Shaffir, a co-founder of Israel's social protest movement, recently visited New York and Ameinu hosted her along with her colleague Yonatan Levi. We took advantage of her being here to ask her four questions for deeper answers to the concerns th...Full Story
Personal Confession: I Love Lobbying With J Street
By Judith Gelman Judith Gelman talks about her experience lobbying with J Street and why it is a truly fulfilling one....Full Story
No One Takes Responsibility For Their Actions Anymore
By Shawn Guttman "Israeli society has forgotten that the idea at the core of Zionism is to be responsible for one another." Shawn Guttman examines this issue and explores how we can change it for the better....Full Story
Seek Peace and Pursue It
The Israel Labor Party Political Position – May 2011
On May 29, the Israeli Labor Party approved a new political platform. Its ten points outline Labor's stance on coexistence, historical context for future goals, and a plan of action for working toward peace....Full Story
Labor MK Herzog's Peace Plan: Israel must Recognize Palestinian State
By Ari Shavit MK Isaac Herzog proposes that Israel announce immediately that it supports the United Nations resolution to establish a Palestinian state....Full Story
President Obama, how about this year in Jerusalem?
By Sidney Topol As I celebrate Passover this year, I will be thinking not only of my people’s distant past but also of our recent past and our future. I will be thinking of the fact that we will soon mark 44 years of Israel’s rule over another people and pondering w...Full Story
Israel
Four Questions for Mickey Gitzin of Israel Hofshit (Be Free Israel)
By Mickey Gitzin Continuing our ongoing “Four Questions” feature, we talk with Mickey Gitzin, the Executive Director of Israel Hofshit (Be Free Israel)....Full Story
Reflections of a Recent Oleh on Yom Ha'atzmaut
By Shawn Guttman Shawn Guttman recent oleh and former Mazkir Klali of Habonim Dror sends Ameinu a letter in honor of Yom Ha'atzmaut, where he reflects on what drove him to consider Aliyah and those whom helped make it happen....Full Story
Breakdown of the Rule of Law
By Sheldon Schreter Sheldon Schreter looks at tense daily interactions in Israeli society as representative of a greater issue--the breakdown of "the rule of law"....Full Story
America
Educating AIPAC
By Judith Gelman "AIPAC supports Israel’s commitment to democratic values and the rule of law, including the protection of minorities and the dismantling of illegal settlement outposts."Though this amendment was defeated at AIPAC's National Leadership Co...
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Jewish Labor Committee President's Address at the JLC Human Rights Award Dinner
By Stuart Appelbaum Read the full text of the Jewish Labor Committee President's speech, that drove Shlomi Kofman, Israel’s deputy consul general in New York, from the room. ...Full Story
Mother May I (Go On Maternity Leave)?
By Emma Goldberg Emma Goldberg, a member of Habonim Dror, writes about the ongoing lack of benefits for working women in the United States and urges choosing a world where work and health are not mutually exclusive....Full Story
Campus
& Youth Update
Propaganda for Israel vs. Educating for Israel
By Lonny Moses In this article, Lonny Moses, the youth leadership coordinator for Habonim Dror North America, explores different modes of Israel education and activism and questions the opportunities given to Jewish youth....Full Story
Young Progressives to Make Group Aliyah
Defying the image of American aliyah as reserved for the politically conservative, a group of 12 liberal young Jews from the Habonim Dror North America movement will move to Israel this September to form an urban kibbutz....Full Story
BDS at Berkley; an Eyewitness View
By Simone Zimmerman You’ve heard the other panelists discuss the merits of BDS and whether it’s effective. I recognize that BDS seeks to address serious human rights issues in Israel and the Territories....Full Story
Jewish
Identity
The Power of Peoplehood: The Soviet Jewish Journey
By David Waksberg David Waksberg, executive director of the Bureau of Jewish Education in San Francisco, recognizes the importance of peoplehood through personal reflections at a recent conference held to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s collapse...Full Story
Looking Back; a Personal Encounter with Peoplehood
By Carolyn Amacher It was their eyes that caught me off guard - eyes of lost souls, literally -a reunion of the lost tribes of Israel; eyes of lost souls...Read Carolyn Amacher's accounting of what opened HER eyes to a new vision of Jewish Peoplehood....
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Tikun Olam and Peoplehood
By Andrew Silow-Carroll There are few things more satisfying than finding out that something you’ve been saying for years is actually true....Full Story
Book Talk
RISE: A NOVEL OF CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL
By Dr. Carl Hoffman Drawing on events in Israeli society that are all but pulled from the headlines, Yosef Gotlieb's new novel RISE is a cracking thriller with a direct and informed political message about contemporary Israel. Full Review
News Alert
Ameinu Tells Obama: We Support Your Administration's Approach Toward Iran
Read the letter Ameinu sent to President Obama in support of the administration's Iran Policy....
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President's View
Ameinu President Ken Bob makes a case for Progressive Zionism as a relevant and necessary expression Of Jewish values, arguing that nationalism can and must coexist with social justice....
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