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  Shawn Guttman sat on the Ameinu Board of Directors for two years while he was National Director of Habonim Dror North America. Today, he is

Beit Sahour, West Bank, Palestine. I recently returned from the West Bank, a term that Israeli radical settlers don’t like. They prefer Judea and Samaria;

  In August of 1973 I arrived in Israel as a guest of the Foreign Ministry. For reasons I no longer recall, the Ministry had

12/30/09 afternoon Tonight, about half an hour ago, the sirens wailed for the first time in Be’er Sheva. About 40 seconds later, right on schedule,

  (Editor’s note: Ameinu and BINA, an Israeli organization, have recently agreed on a partnership which will both support BINA’s work in Israel and bring

  There are enemies of everything Israeli who are like the storied Jewish mamas who prefer to suffer in darkness because suffering is more comfortable,

Although still in my 30’s, from the standpoint of Labor Zionist experience, I was an “old man” when I arrived in Palestine in 1947. My

By Judith Gelman In 2003, an Israeli family with 10 children received NIS 6,500 (about $1,450) a month in child allowances. Three years later, in

       Another month has passed, and another proposal for a new ecological community in the Negev has been released. The routine is familiar:  

By Tom Tugend Amal Elsana Alh’jooj (left) and Vivian Silver are working to empower Bedouin women in the Negev.  [Photo courtesy Ameinu] When the two