Events

On March 6, 2007, Meretz USA and Ameinu members gathered at Beit Shalom for a panel discussion responding to recent accusations aimed at Israel and the American Jewish community. Ralph Seliger, Meretz USA's vice president for publications and editor of ISRAEL HORIZONS magazine, examined the views of NYU historian Tony Judt; Gidon (Doni) Remba, incoming director of Ameinu, discussed Palestine Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter; and Dan Fleshler, on boards of both Ameinu and Americans for Peace Now, offered an analysis of “The Israel Lobby” by Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt .

Read a summary of their remarks.

On Shabbat, March 17, 2007, Yael Dayan, former Knesset Member and current deputy mayor of Tel Aviv, delivered the D'var Torah at Congregation B'nai Jeshurun in Manhattan.

On the evening of Thursday, March 22, 2007, Meretz Chairman Yossi Beilin addressed the Meretz USA board. He discussed current events surrounding the Winograd Commission, the formation of the Palestinian Unity government, and what the US should be doing, among other issues.

Read a summary of his remarks.