Women's Rights

11/10/2011 - 7:30pm

Partners for Progressive Israel (formerly Meretz USA) is delighted to co-sponsor the following event:

Gershom Gorenberg: The Unmaking of Israel -
book reading and discussion

Thursday, November 10th, 7:30 PM
Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Cost: $10

Location: 274 Garfield Place (corner of Garfield & 8th Avenue),
Park Slope, Brooklyn
For directions by mass transit or car, and a map, click here.

Israeli journalist and historian Gershom Gorenberg has just released his new book, The Unmaking of Israel, which offers a penetrating and provocative argument on how the balance of power in Israel has shifted toward extremism, threatening the prospects for peace and democracy as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict intensifies. Informing his examination using interviews in Israel and the West Bank and with access to previously classified Israeli documents, Gorenberg delivers an incisive discussion of the causes and trends of extremism in Israel’s government and society. Join us for a book reading and discussion.

Presented by Congregation Beth Elohim.
Additional co-sponors: J Street NYC and Americans for Peace Now.

 

05/24/2011 - 1:30pm

Lunch & Learn: The Fight for Equality for Palestinian and Bedouin Women in Israel

With special guest speaker Sana Ibn Bari, a Human Rights Lawyer

Sana Ibn Bari, a young Bedouin Israeli woman human rights attorney at Itach-Ma'aki: Women Lawyers for Social Justice, has done extraordinary work fighting discrimination against Palestinian and Bedouin Israeli women. Sana will offer an overview of the current state of Palestinian and Bedouin women's rights in Israel, and share what Israeli human rights activists are doing to combat discrimination against non-Jewish women. She'll also discuss the larger question of whether Bedouin and Palestinian women can gain equality when both Palestinian and Bedouin men and women experience significant discrimination in Israeli life.

Tuesday, May 24th, 1:30 - 2:30 pm

Bring your own brown bag lunch.

333 Seventh Avenue, 13th Floor, New York, NY  The offices of Rabbis for Human Rights - North America and Human Rights First

 

Kindly RVSP by Monday, May 23rd to let us know if you will be joining.  Please e-mail us at mail@meretzusa.org or call us 212-242-4500.

This event is co-sponsored with Rabbis for Human Rights - North America and the Jewish Alliance for Change

01/15/2011 - 12:30pm

Saturday, January 15th, 12:30 PM
Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, Brooklyn

Anat Hoffman, Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC), and Director of Women of the Wall, on:

"The Search for Cracks in the City of Stone: An Anatomy of the Struggles for Pluralism in Modern Jerusalem"

Jerusalem is a harsh city to live in. It is a city in struggle, a struggle between narrow-minded Judaism and pluralistic Judaism, a battle for appropriate representation for all city inhabitants, a struggle to make it a better place for all to live in.

Anat Hoffman's talk will touch on several issues that pertain to these struggles and to the contribution of IRAC to advance a pluralistic living environment in Israel's capital.

Presented by Congregation Beth Elohim and co-sponsored by Meretz USA. 

Please note: This is a Shabbat luncheon and discussion.  Preregistration will be possible on the Congregation Beth Elohim website; $10 contribution requested.  Payment will not be collected on the day of the event.

Location: Congregation Beth Elohim, 274 Garfield Place (corner of Garfield & 8th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn
(Near the #2, #3, #4 Grand Army Plaza subway station)

For directions by mass transit or car, plus a map, click here.

Additional co-sponsors: Americans for Peace Now, New Israel Fund

09/14/2009 - 7:00pm

Pro-active Humanist Zionism Now!

Challenging American and Israeli Jews to make a better Israel

featuring special guest:
Leah Shakdiel

During the Gaza War of last winter, Leah Shakdiel, a modern orthodox woman, peace activst and feminist was arrested with others during a vigil protesting the violence and killing on both sides. The Israeli government put her under house arrest and through these actions threatened her political freedoms of speech, assembly, and organizing.

Through teaching and continued activist work with Israeli Human Rights NGOs like Machsom Watch, Mirkam Azori, Darom4Peace, and Rabbis for Human Rights, Leah works tirelessly to bring the values of peace, equality, human rights, and social justice to the next generation of Israelis.

03/29/2009 - 11:00am

Meretz USA, along with The Other Israel Film Festival, and The Israel Film Center at the JCC present a weekend brunch, film, and discussion on women's rights in Israel and Arab Israeli Women.

Arab Israeli filmmaker, Ibtisam Salh Mara'ana, grew up in Paradise (Fureidis in Arabic), a small fishing village overlooking the Mediterranean - one of the few Arab communities remaining after the 1948 war. This thought-provoking and intimate film diary follows the director's attempt to recreate the village's lost history, including the story of her childhood hero Suuad, the legendary local "bad girl" who was imprisoned as a PLO activist in the 1970,'s and banished from the community. Presenting the rarely heard voice of an Arab Israeli woman, this important film offers valuable insight into the contradictions and complexities of modern womanhood and national identity in the Middle East.