President Barack Obama, making a surprise address, told a Haaretz-sponsored conference in New York that Israelis and Palestinians must “exercise restraint.”
A war of words between one of the country’s leading Israel-related organizations.
It’s not unusual to hear U.S. Jewish groups speaking out against laws that discriminate and framing their protests as protecting Jewish interests.
After nearly four years as a senior vice president at The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, Jonathan Jacoby — who helped oversee major changes in the organization’s program planning — will rejoin the New Israel Fund (NIF) decades after serving as one of its founding members.
Rabbi Brian Lurie, the former CEO of the San Francisco-area Jewish federation, has become president of the New Israel Fund.
In the landscape of American Jewish organizations, The New Israel Fund (NIF) has long occupied a prominent place on the left side of the aisle. Back in 1979, almost three decades before the “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby J Street was established, when Peter Beinart was still in elementary school, NIF began supporting Israeli-based non-profits that advanced the Jewish and democratic identity of Israel.
Murray Koppelman saw women pushed onto the back of a bus in Tehran and had a nightmare about Israel’s future.
American Jewish groups that have spoken out against Israel’s new anti-boycott law aren\’t stopping there — now they\’re speaking with each other on further responses.
When Adalah, an Israeli Arab legal rights group, joined an initiative in 2007 to create an Israeli constitution that would dilute — if not remove — the state\’s Jewish character, it unleashed a furor in pro-Israel circles.
The test of her leadership rests on her ability to move Israeli-Palestinian negotiations to an equitable and durable conclusion
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