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Who Are You Calling a Refugee?
30 January 2014
Tel Aviv restaurant, coffee shop, and bar owners joined together with African refugees for a day of celebration and bridge-building.
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We have something to say: Russian-speakers in Israeli media
16 January 2014
Progressive Russian Israeli voices are underrepresented in the county’s media. So SHATIL decided to do something about it.
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Immersion and Empowerment
5 December 2013
A new training program for mikva (ritual bath) attendants in Israel is an important step forward for women’s rights. The new training program, which will be run by the Ministry of Religious Affairs, was agreed upon following a campaign by Advot (Ripples), a group of women’s rights activists.
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Spread the word! 2014-2015 Social Justice Fellowships
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“It’s accessibility to life”
17 October 2013Bosmat Nakash and her family immigrated to Israel from Iraq just before the Six Day War. Among the changes she experienced in her new country was a more tolerant attitude toward her disability.
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Approaching 100 Days of the (Third) Netanyahu Government
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An End to Gender Segregation?
23 May 2013
May 8th became a day of celebration for proponents of equality in Israel after Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein instructed the government to immediately stop the exclusion and segregation of women in the public sphere.
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Pressing for a Socially Just Budget
16 January 2013A new survey reveals that 87% of Israelis oppose cuts in the state’s health, welfare, and education budgets.
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Lies, Damn Lies, and the Im Tirtzu Report
11 February 2010Recently the New Israel Fund became the latest target of what appears to be a coordinated effort to stifle dissent and shut down the human rights community in Israel. A complete, source-by-source analysis of the report demonstrates that it is a concoction of misrepresentations, sleight-of-hand with numbers, and outright lies.
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Human Rights March & Pluralism Event Dramatize Progressive Voices in Israel
14 December 2009Jerusalem, Israel. With support from the New Israel Fund, thousands marched by daylight, and hundreds lit candles at dusk, in a spirited show of support for human rights and religious tolerance in Israel. In a two-day span, the events demonstrated that many Israelis are recommitting themselves to the Jewish and universal values of freedom, dissent and sustaining democracy.
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