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Videos
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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Current
Issues
JNF Board Member Quits Over Evictions
By Seth Morrison JNF Board Member Seth Morrison, who recently resigned over the eviction of a Palestinian family from East Jerusalem, explains how this treatment of Palestinians is a hindrance to peace and understanding....Full Story
Cottage Cheese Spring in the Start-Up Nation
By Judith Gelman Was it the small plastic container of cottage cheese in the refrigerator that brought the hundreds of thousands of Israelis into the streets to demand social justice? Read why it might have been....Full Story
An Open Letter to the Leaders of the Israeli Housing Protest
By The Policy and Advocacy Committee of Ameinu Ameinu expresses its solidarity with those Israelis protesting the economic hardship facing its citizens. The participants of the tent cities and housing protests cross traditional political lines. ...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
Changing Israel: The Social Justice Protests
By Shawn Guttman Former Mazkir Habonim Dror Shawn Guttman shares first-hand experience of the ongoing social protests sweeping Israel and muses on what they have accomplished....Full Story
Rothschild Boulevard and Hackney
By Julian Resnick Why in Israel when hundreds of thousands of people take to the street with serious grievances with a strong desire to change the social and economic systems does it look like a summer camp? While in the UK it looks a lot like the War of the Worlds? ...Full Story
Israeli Zionist Educator Calls for Diaspora Support for Protesters
By Gilad Perry "This is not a political struggle. It is not a struggle against this government or any other. In fact, each of the last several governments has taken us in the same direction. This is an Israeli struggle; a Jewish struggle."Read more from...
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America
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
Four Questions for a Shaliach with a Social Justice Agenda
In light of the events currently taking place in Israel, it is appropriate that we ask our "four questions" this time of a long-time activist on social issues, Nir Braudo....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
Origins of Democratic Socialism in Israel: Foundations and Leadership
By Ivan Frank Ivan Franks latest book traces the very beginnings of Israel's Labor and Kibbutz movements and manages to connect them to today's Urban Kibbutz endeavors. Full Review
News Alert
Ameinu Condemns Recent Violence Against Women In Beit Shemesh
Read Ameinu's statement in reaction to the most recent act of violence in an on going series of violent acts against women in Beit Shemesh....
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President's View
Read Ameinu President, Kenneth Bob's thoughts about the actions of an Israeli government representative at the recent Jewish Labor Committee Awards Dinner....
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