Meretz USA
114 West 26th St. #1002
New York,
NY,
10001
Fax: (212) 242 5718 mail@meretzusa.org
Events
Sunday October 25, 2009
Start: 9:00 am
Start: 10/25/2009 - 9:00am
End: 10/28/2009 - 9:00pm
Join Meretz USA at JStreet's first National Conference
Monday October 26, 2009
(all day)
Start: 10/25/2009 - 9:00am
End: 10/28/2009 - 9:00pm
Join Meretz USA at JStreet's first National Conference
Tuesday October 27, 2009
(all day)
Start: 10/25/2009 - 9:00am
End: 10/28/2009 - 9:00pm
Join Meretz USA at JStreet's first National Conference
Wednesday October 28, 2009
End: 9:00 pm
Start: 10/25/2009 - 9:00am
End: 10/28/2009 - 9:00pm
Join Meretz USA at JStreet's first National Conference
Thursday October 29, 2009
Start: 8:00 am
End: 10:00 am
Join the New Israel Fund and Susan Lebow on Thursday, October 29, 2009 to meet Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg, Religious Pluralism Coordinator at Shatil (NIF's action arm), and learn about what is happening today to create a more pluralistic and tolerant Israel
Loosening the Grip: How are Israelis combating the ultra-Orthodox hold on Israel?
Despite their minority status, Israel's ultra-Orthodox wield immense control over what it means to be Jewish in Israel:
• Gender-segregated public bus lines, in which women are forced to sit at the back of the bus
• De-facto segregation of Ethiopian and Mizrachi students in some government-funded Orthodox schools
• Denial of marriage, burial and other personal rights to those who can't prove their Jewish status
WHAT: Breakfast and Discussion with Shira
Ben-Sasson Furstenberg
WHEN: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at
8:00 am
WHERE: The home of Susan Lebow
12837 Highwood St
Los Angeles, CA 90049
RSVP: meretzusa.la@gmail.com
Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg's work as NIF's Religious Pluralism Coordinator focuses on promoting Jewish Pluralism in Israel, struggling for 'freedom of' and 'freedom from' Religion. Born and raised in a liberal Orthodox family in Jerusalem, Shira was an officer in the IDF and received her BA and MA in cultural anthropology from the Hebrew University. Prior to joining Shatil, she worked for five years in the Knesset Research and Information Center, focusing on education and culture. She is married to Yair, currently a Tikva fellow at Princeton University, working on his PHD in Talmud and classics; they have two sons and a daughter.
Co-Sponsored by Meretz USA and Americans for Peace Now
Tuesday November 3, 2009
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Join us for a program with a very special guest from Israel
Yariv Oppenheimer
General Director of Shalom Achshav (Peace Now, Israel)
Yariv Oppenheimer speaking at a rally in Tel Aviv - 1/10/09
Fourteen Years After:
Working to Fulfill the Peace Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin
Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 7:30 P.M.
Sunday November 15, 2009
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Pease join Meretz USA on Sunday, November 15th at 5:00pm at the JCC Manhattan for the Other Israel Film Festival presentation of Sayed Kashua - Forever Sacred
Israel, 2009, 56 minutes
Director:
Dorit Zimbalist
Despite being one of Israel's leading columnists, novelists and screenwriter, Sayed Kashua feels he doesn't belong. The Jews don't like him because he's an Arab. The Arabs don't like him because he's successful. The Arabs think he's a collaborator. The Jews think he's a drunk. He's always the "other" and he's always scared. This intimate portrait follows Kashua over seven years through the upheavals and events that change his life, wandering from place to place, from nation to nation, belonging neither here nor there.
Venue: The JCC Manhattan (Click for directions)
To buy tickets click here
Monday November 16, 2009
Start: 8:30 am
End: 10:00 am
Join us for a Breakfast and Discussion with
Dan Fleshler: Transforming
America's Israel Lobby
Monday, November 16, 8:30 a.m.
Jerry's Famous Deli
10925 Weyburn Ave., 2nd Floor Meeting Rm.
Westwood Village
RSVP to apnwest@peacenow.org or 323-934-3480
Cost - $15 (includes breakfast buffet)
Dan Fleshler is a media and public affairs strategist based in New York whose recent book, Transforming America's Israel Lobby: The Limits of Its Power and the Potential for Change, offers insight into the shifts taking place in the pro-Israel American Jewish community, including growing dissent against what he calls the "conventional Israel lobby." He is on the Advisory Council of the new lobbying group, J Street, and a Board Member of Americans for Peace Now and Ameinu.
Former Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis has written that Fleshler's book "dispels many myths while facing squarely some perennial dilemmas faced by peace-seeking American Jews, and outlines a pro-peace, pro-Israeli, pro Palestinian and pro-American road forward for them to take." A leading analyst and adviser on the pro-Israel left, Mr. Fleshler will share his thoughts about the prospects for peace and the role of the American Jewish community in bringing it about.
Sponsors: Ameinu, Americans for Peace Now, J Street, Meretz USA, New Israel Fund, Workmen's Circle (Arbeter Ring)
