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Events
10 / 25
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 | ||
10 / 26
(all day)
Start: 10/25/2009 - 9:00am
End: 10/28/2009 - 9:00pm
Join Meretz USA at JStreet's first National Conference | ||
10 / 27
(all day)
Start: 10/25/2009 - 9:00am
End: 10/28/2009 - 9:00pm
Join Meretz USA at JStreet's first National Conference | ||
10 / 28
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 | ||
10 / 29
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?
• Gender-segregated public bus lines, in which women are forced to sit at the back of the bus
WHERE: The home of Susan Lebow 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
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11 / 3
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Join us for a program with a very special guest from Israel Yariv Oppenheimer
Yariv Oppenheimer speaking at a rally in Tel Aviv - 1/10/09
Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 7:30 P.M. RSVP to meretzusa.la@gmail.com $10 Suggested Donation At The Door Sponsored by Americans for Peace Now ________________________________________________ Yariv says "that night made me more committed and eager to continue my activity and to fight for peace." Fourteen years later, he leads the Peace Now movement, coordinator of that fateful 1995 rally. Yariv Oppenheimer, born in Tel Aviv in 1976, is the General Director and Spokesperson of Shalom Achshav (Peace Now, Israel), the largest grassroots movement in Israeli history. He is a leading political figure and activist who is regularly cited in the Israeli and world press, and is a frequent interviewee on radio and television broadcasts. Oppenheimer was Commander of New Recruits in the Israeli Defense Forces (1995-98), Youth Department Director of the Israeli Labour Party (1998-2002), and has a Law & Public Policy Degree from the College of Interdisciplinary Center of Learning in Herzliya, Israel.
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11 / 15
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:30 pm
Israel, 2009, 56 minutes Director: 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
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11 / 16
Start: 8:30 am
End: 10:00 am
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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. 
