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Israeli Democracy Is Safer Than We Think

Brent E. Sasley | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, j14, Israel, Peace Process, Benjamin Netanyahu, New Israel Fund, World News

Israeli democracy is greatly endangered, and those who will suffer will be the Palestinians, the secular, the foreign workers, the leftists; in short, everyone who isn't haredi, secular nationalist, or religious nationalist.

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The Real Case Against Palestinian UDI

Dovid Efune | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Palestinian State, Land for Peace, Shmuel Katz, New Israel Fund, United Nations, UJA Federation, Arab State, Aziz Mekouar, Israeli-Arab Conflict, General Assembly, Udi, World News

Last Thursday I attended a luncheon, organized by The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, to honor departing Moroccan Amb...

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Fair-Weathered Zionists

David Suissa | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Boycott Law, Los Anegles Times, Daniel Sokatch, Daniel Sieradski, Haaretz, New Israel Fund, Gerald Bubis, Zionist, Adam Chandler, Twitter, World News

What do you do if an annoying and exasperating friend gets in trouble and really needs your help? And what do you do if that friend is also a blood re...

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A Letter to Progressive U.S. Jews: These Are Your People

Bradley Burston | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: J Street, Haaretz, Gaza, Mideast, Politics, New Israel Fund, Israel. Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Bradley Burston, Qassam, Idf, Rockets, Iron Dome, Israel-Palestine, Israel Palestine Conflict, Progressive Jewish, Liberal Jews, World News

There is much more that our people, progressive American Jews, can and should do to demonstrate humanist concern on this side of the border.

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The Unorthodox Solution: Embracing Pluralism And Reason In Israeli Society

Daniel Sokatch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Arab Israelis, Israeli Knesset, Israeli Society, New Israel Fund, Middle East Conflict, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Religion in Israel, Democracy in Israel, Religious Pluralism, Daniel Sokatch, Israel Housing Decree, Religion News

When dozens of Israeli ultra-Orthodox rabbis signed a formal edict prohibiting Jews from renting or selling real estate to non-Jews, the ensuing uproar was reassuring to those of us working for a democratic, pluralist Israel.

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Jew vs. Jew? Protests, Threats Reach Fever Pitch over Israel

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jewish Politics, Kach, Jewish Community, West Bank, American Jews for a Just Peace, Kahane Movement, Jews Say No, Stand With US, Jewish Voice for Peace, Israel Defense Forces, New York Jews, Americans for Peace Now, Meir Kahane, Zionism, Iran, Gaza, Camp Jabotinsky, Middle East, New Israel Fund, Saeb Erekat, Hebron, Gabi Ashkenazi, New York News, Violence, Friends of the IDF, Goldstone Report, Negotiations, Bibi Netanyahu, Protest, Diaspora, Palestine, Americans for a Safe Israel, Joe Biden, Idf, Waldorf-Astoria, Settlements, Palestinians, Palestinian Authority, J Street, Jews Against the Occupation, Settlers, East Jerusalem, Jewish Defense Organization, Israel, Israeli Apartheid Week, New York News

This week, New York City's Jewish community is riven by protests, counterprotests, and now, threats of Jew-on-Jew intimidation over the question of Israel and the Palestinians.

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Dr. Gordis's Jewish Problems

Charles London | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Im Tirzu, Jewish Values, Human Rights, Israel, New Israel Fund, Daniel Gordis, Torture, Dick Cheney, World News

Suggesting that criticism will lead to the end of the Jewish people not only sows paranoia and division, it also shares a totalitarian logic with a wide array of past dictators. It's a sure way to lose a war.

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It Is No Dream

Michal Lewin-Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Im Tirtzu, Breaking the Silence, Goldstone Report, New Israel Fund, Israel, World News

Im Tirtzu,a new Zionist group, and its followers seek to delegitimize the New Israel Fund, and sixteen organizations the fund supports, as well as to intimidate these types of groups from exposing misconduct.

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Defending New Israel Fund

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Intolerance, New Israel Fund, Home News

Dissent is at the root of all healthy democracies, for without dissent, without the ability to speak up and express one's opinion in opposition to th...

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The Other Israeli Siege

Ami Kaufman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sheikh Jarrah, Sheldon Adelson, Bibi Netanyahu, Naomi Chazan, New Israel Fund, Israel, Palestine, Sara Netanyahu, Barack Obama, Yisrael Hayom, Gaza, Avigdor Lieberman, Lipstikka, World News

What seems to have slipped under the radar overseas is a siege of a totally different kind: the siege on Israeli democracy itself.

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Imagine That: Community Organizing Could be the Key to Peace and Prosperity in Israel

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 05.25.2011

While Palin intended her jab to belittle Obama's experience, it in fact helped galvanize those of us who know just how critical, challenging and imperative a role community organizers play.

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