Reason for Pride
7 June 2018
We know that we can’t stop just because Tel Aviv is an oasis for gay life, but rather we must continue our work so that every LGBTQ person in Israel can feel supported and safe.
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This Isn’t About Jafar
25 May 2018The lived experience of so many Israelis who take part in political protests — peace activists, Ethiopian-Israelis, refugees, and even settlers — is that the police can and do act with brutal force to shut down political speech.
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Composing for Peace: A Concert for Social Change
25 May 2018Many musicians, including Mira Awad, Achinoam Nini (Noa), David Broza, and Peter Yarrow, came together in a celebration of the unique role that music and the arts play in social change and Israel today.
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Trifecta of Failed Leadership
10 May 2018Leaders on all sides have found opportunities to scuttle chances for Israeli-Palestinian peace and drive a wedge separating the two peoples.
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Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
26 April 2018I never would have believed the Trumpian fashion in which the prime minister would falsely accuse us of trying to “erase the Jewish character of Israel,” or that he would demand, on the basis of lies, that we be subjected to a parliamentary committee of inquiry.
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Celebrating the Real Israel
19 April 2018Today is Israel’s Independence Day. It’s a day for us to celebrate the real Israel — not the exclusionary, narrow, ethnocentric, and increasingly-authoritarian Israel that the country’s political leaders have come to represent, but rather the beautiful, inclusive, pluralistic society that’s there on the ground, made up of real people striving to lead lives of meaning together.
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Trailblazers
13 April 2018
The story of Israel is made up of people from many different paths. But not of all of their stories are well known.
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What to Make of the Prime Minister’s Libel?
12 April 2018The days ahead will not be simple — not for Israelis who cherish democracy, not for NIF, and not for the 38,000 people seeking asylum who now find themselves in limbo — but this episode has powerfully demonstrated that we are not alone, and that when we stand together we have real power.
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Passover, Freedom, and People Seeking Asylum in Israel
27 March 2018This year on Passover, as we remember the Exodus from Egypt, the injunction to care for the stranger feels particularly relevant. As we remember our own pain in Egypt, we cannot forget about people seeking asylum in Israel.
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This Passover, We Stand with People Seeking Asylum
23 March 2018Next week Passover will start. Many of us will sit down at Seders and retell the story of our Exodus from Egypt. We will see ourselves as individuals who escaped bondage. And we will look at the world around us and identify the ways in which others around us are not yet free.
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