Meretz USA
114 West 26th St. #1002
New York,
NY,
10001
Fax: (212) 242 5718 mail@meretzusa.org
Past Events
Events
- 11/30/2011 - 5:30pm
Directed by: Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman
Showings:
Wednesday, November 30 - 5:30 pm (at Baruch College's Englman Hall)
Thursday, December 1 - 7:30 pm (Cinima Arts Center, 423 Park Ave. Hungtington, NY)
Thursday, December 8 - 8:00 pm (Columbia University, 501 Schermerhorn)
NR, 70 Minutes, In English and Hebrew with English subtitles
- 11/14/2011 - 8:45pm
For the fourth year running, Partners for Progressive Israel / Meretz USA is proud to partner with the Other Israel Film Festival and its mission, to educate through film and discussion about the minority populations in Israel with a focus on the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, who make up more than twenty percent of Israel's population.
This year, we are delighted to co-sponsor the screening of "77 Steps" - a film by Ibtisam Mara'ana (Israel, 2010, 56 minutes - View trailer for 77 Steps).
Monday, November 14, 8:45pm
Cinema Village at 22 East 12th Street (betw. University Place & 5th Ave.) in ManhattanTo purchase tickets, click here
For general ticket information, click here
For directions to Cinema Village, click hereAbout "77 Steps"
The personal journey of the director who leaves her Arab-Muslim village and moves to Tel-Aviv.
In an attempt to find an apartment in the city, she encounters discrimination and rejection by most landlords because of her Arab origins. She finally finds an apartment, and meets her neighbor Jonathan, a Jewish-Canadian man who immigrated to Israel. A love story evolves.
Shortly after Ibtisam joins a left-wing political party (Meretz) and runs for the Knesset, Israel invades Gaza. Hundreds are killed. Ibtisam resigns from her party because of its support of the war. Ibtisam struggles over her Palestinian identity in the shadow of war and hatred, but does not relinquish her relationship with Jonathan. Yet something has gone sour.
Jonathan's family refuses to meet his girlfriend. Jonathan says: They can't forgo their image of their future daughter-in-law - Jewish, white and English-speaking. Ibtisam is also unable to reveal her relationship to her mother and keeps it a secret.
When Jonathan's grandfather comes from Canada on a nostalgic trip to Kibbutz Ein-Dor, which he helped found in 1948, Ibtisam and Jonathan join him. It becomes an individual journey for each one of them one that takes them backwards in time and forward into the unknown, to memories and dreams, Nakba and Independence, Love and Hate, Longing and Loss. After this journey nothing can be the way it was before. There is no turning back.
- 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
discussionThursday, November 10th, 7:30 PM
Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Cost: $10Location: 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. - 11/06/2011 - 6:00pm
Partners for Progressive Israel (formerly Meretz USA) is proud to co-sponsor the annual memorial ceremony, commemorating the life and path of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, z"l
Remembering Yitzhak Rabin - 16 years after his assassination
Continuing his path of peace and social justice
Sunday, November 6th at 6:00 pm
The Manhattan JCC
334 Amsterdam Avenue (at 76th St.), New York City(By Subway: 1, 2, 3, B or C to 72nd Street | By Bus: M7 or M11 to 75th Street)
Sponsored by the Hashomer Hatzair & Habonim Dror Zionist youth movements
Also co-sponsored by: Givat Haviva Educational Foundation and Ameinu
- 10/18/2011 - 1:00pm
Lunch & Learn
And intimate lunchtime event with a speaker. Bring your own lunch. Cosponsored with Rabbis for Human Rights - North America
Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 At 01:00 PM
Location: Rabbis for Human Rights-North America's office333 Seventh Avenue, 13th Floor(within Human Rights First's offices)Between 28th and 29th Streets New York, NY 10001RSVP: mail@meretzusa.org or 212-242-4500
- 10/17/2011 - 7:30pm
Meretz USA / Partners for Progressive Israel
is delighted to announce the following event in the Washington DC area:Rent, Cottage Cheese and Peace -
What's making Israel tick these days?A discussion with Ron Skolnik
Executive Director of Meretz USA / Partners for Progressive IsraelMonday, October 17, at 7:30 PM
Kol Ami - The Northern Virginia Reconstructionist Community
(at The Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington)
4444 Arlington Boulevard in Arlington, VA
(for directions, click here) - 09/23/2011 - 12:30pm
Because of events planned for this Friday at the UN, we are moving this week's demonstration from Thursday to Friday! (The demonstration originally planned for Thursday the 22nd at Washington Sq. Park is being canceled and replaced with the Friday demo) We want to be out on the street the same day that Abbas and Netanyahu address the UN!
JOIN US!!!
Friday, September 23
from 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
meet at the northwest corner of
2nd Ave. & 41st St.
- 09/18/2011 - 1:30pm
Meretz USA (Partners for Progressive Israel) is delighted to co-sponsor an event with Jeremy Ben-Ami, Founder and President of J Street. The event is hosted by Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Jeremy Ben-Ami will be reading from and discussing his recently released book, A New Voice for Israel.
Additional co-sponsors: Americans for Peace Now
Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 1:30 pm
Congregation Beth Elohim
274 Garfield Place in Park Slope
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 768-3814
Directions$10 admission fee
To register for the event by credit card or PayPal, please click here
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- 09/15/2011 - 7:30pm
On September 15, Meretz USA (Partners for Progressive Israel) Executive Director, Ron Skolnik, will be part of a panel examining calls for a cultural boycott of Israeli settlements, and of Israel itself. Ron will be representing the position adopted by the Meretz USA board in February 2011.
The event, entitled, "An Open Conversation on Cultural Boycott of Israel" will take place on:Thursday, September 15, 2011; starting promptly at 7:30 p.m.
Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives: Building a Progressive Jewish Community in Brooklyn
1012 Eighth Avenue @ 10th Street in Park SlopeThe discussion is designed as a respectful conversation among Jews with many different perspectives about cultural boycott of Israel. The evening will provide an opportunity to hear from people with different points of view about whether or not cultural boycott is an appropriate and effective strategy for supporting movements for peace and justice in Israel and Palestine.
- 09/15/2011 - 12:30pm
The UN debate on Palestine is approaching and we'll be out again with our 2-state message.
September 15 you can find us at Union Square.
Do you feel Netanyahu and his policies are leading Israel off a cliff? Are you frustrated that the right in Israel and the US has hijacked what it means to love and support Israel? Do you feel the need to stand up and send a message?
Well we do, too. That's why we're asking you to
JOIN US!!!
September 15, from 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
at Union Square (south side) in New York
(14th Street, on the steps between Broadway and Park Ave.)
(Rain or Shine!) - 09/14/2011 - 6:30pm
Meretz USA (Partners for Progressive Israel)
Invites you to a very special opportunity to hear
Leah Shakdiel
Recently named Chair of Israel's "Tent Protest" Vision Committee
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 6:30pm
Location: Upper West Side of Manhattan
(exact address to be provided upon RSVP) - 09/08/2011 - 12:30pm
We're taking our message around the city!
September 8th is 116th St. & Broadway
(outside Columbia University)Do you feel Netanyahu and his policies are leading Israel off a cliff? Are you frustrated that the right in Israel and the US has hijacked what it means to love and support Israel? Do you feel the need to stand up and send a message?
Well we do, too. That's why we're asking you to
JOIN US!!!
September 8, from 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
116th St. & Broadway in New York
(outside entrance to Columbia University on Broadway)
(Rain or Shine!) - 09/01/2011 - 5:00pm
We're taking our message around the city!
September 1 is Broadway & 72nd Street.
Do you feel Netanyahu and his policies are leading Israel off a cliff? Are you frustrated that the right in Israel and the US has hijacked what it means to love and support Israel? Do you feel the need to stand up and send a message?
Well we do, too. That's why we're asking you to
JOIN US!!!
September 1, from 5 pm - 6 pm
at Broadway & 72nd Street in New York
(north side of 72nd, in the square outside the subway station)
(Rain or Shine!) - 08/31/2011 - 8:00am
We are proud to co-sponsor the following event, in conjunction with Americans for Peace Now (Southern California):
Wednesday, August 31, 2011, 8:00 a.m., Factor's Deli, Back Patio
David Myers is Chair of the UCLA History
Department and was previously director of the UCLA Center for Jewish
Studies (see bio below). He has just returned from a trip
to Israel, and penned the opinion piece Where
Hope is to be Found published in The Jewish Journal.
Bagel Breakfast Buffet - $12 (pay at door)
Factor's Deli (Back Patio) - 9420 West Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90035 (1/2 block East of Beverly Drive)
Street Parking on Pico or Rexford begins at 8am - READ SIGNS (Valet parking available but usually starts after 8am)
RSVP to meretzusa.la@gmail.com - 08/25/2011 - 12:30pm
We're taking our message around the city!
August 25 is Union Square.
Do you feel Netanyahu and his policies are leading Israel off a cliff? Are you frustrated that the right in Israel and the US has hijacked what it means to love and support Israel? Do you feel the need to stand up and send a message?
Well we do, too. That's why we're asking you to
JOIN US!!!
August 25, from 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
at Union Square (south side) in New York
(14th Street, between Broadway and Park Ave.)
(Rain or Shine!) - 08/18/2011 - 12:30pmDo you feel
Netanyahu and his policies are leading Israel off a cliff? Are you frustrated that the right in Israel
and the US has hijacked what it means to love and support Israel? Do you
feel the need to stand up and send a message?
Well we do, too. That's why we're asking you to
JOIN US!!!
August 18 (and every Thursday after that),
from 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
at the plaza at Central Park South and 6th Avenue in New York
(entrance to Central Park, 6th Ave. and 59th St. - meet at the flagpole)
(Rain or Shine!) - 08/11/2011 - 12:30pmDo you feel
Netanyahu and his policies are leading Israel off a cliff? Are you frustrated that the right in Israel
and the US has hijacked what it means to love and support Israel? Do you
feel the need to stand up and send a message?
Well we do, too. That's why we're asking you to
JOIN US!!!
August 11 (and every Thursday after that),
from 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
at the plaza at Central Park South and 6th Avenue in New York
(entrance to Central Park, 6th Ave. and 59th St. - meet at the flagpole)
(Rain or Shine!) - 08/04/2011 - 12:30pmDo you feel
Netanyahu and his policies are leading Israel off a cliff? Are you frustrated that the right in Israel
and the US has hijacked what it means to love and support Israel? Do you
feel the need to stand up and send a message?
Well we do, too. That's why we're asking you to
JOIN US!!!
August 4 (and every Thursday after that),
from 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
at the plaza at Central Park South and 6th Avenue in New York
(entrance to Central Park, 6th Ave. and 59th St. - meet at the flagpole)
(Rain or Shine!) - 07/31/2011 - 3:30pm
Meretz USA/Partners for Progressive Israel is proud to promote the following event:
The Israeli Parliament's recent "Anti Boycott Law" was called "a severe violation of freedom of speech"
What impact will the law have on Israeli society? On individual rights?
Join a community discussion and video conference with
Gili Re'i, Associate Director, Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) Sunday, July 31, 3:30--5:00 pm
Squirrel Hill Public Lbrary in Pittsburgh
- 07/29/2011 - 8:00am
Loving Israel in Challenging Times with Daniel Sokatch, CEO of New Israel Fund
Join Meretz USA, New Israel Fund, J Street Los Angles and Americans for Peace Now for a breakfast
presentation and discussion of issues vital to Israel's future with Daniel Sokatch:• How serious are the threats to Israel's democracy
• How is the New Israel Fund family of organizations fighting back?
• What role can American Jews play to ensure a just and equitable Israel?Friday, July 29th 8:00am
Factor's Deli
9420 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CABagel Breakfast Buffet $10 (pay at door)
Daniel Sokatch - Prior to NIF, Daniel served as the Executive Director of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, and founding Executive Director of Progressive Jewish Alliance. He has been on the Forward newspaper's "Forward 50," an annual list of the fifty leading Jewish decision-makers and opinion-shapers four times. He is married with two daughters and resides in San Francisco.
Kindly RSVP to meretzusa.la@gmail.com - 07/28/2011 - 7:30pmMeretz USA is pleased to recommend the following J Street LA event: A talk by Brigadier General (Ret.) Nehemiah Dagan
Come hear first-hand why an Israeli security and diplomatic expert believes that the time for a two-state solution is now. Learn how you can amplify the call for change in your communities.
Thursday, July 28th 7:30 pm
Event Location:
Kehillat Israel
16019 West Sunset Blvd in the Pacific Palisades
Los Angeles, CA 90272Kindly RSVP for the event here.
- 07/28/2011 - 12:30pmDo you feel
Netanyahu and his policies are leading Israel off a cliff? Are you frustrated that the right in Israel
and the US has hijacked what it means to love and support Israel? Do you
feel the need to stand up and send a message?
Well we do, too. That's why we're asking you to
JOIN US!!!
July 28 (and every Thursday after that), from 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
at the plaza at Central Park South and 6th Avenue in New York
(entrance to Central Park, 6th Ave. and 59th St. - meet at the flagpole)
(Rain or Shine!) - 07/21/2011 - 7:00pm
Meretz USA is pleased to recommend the following J Street event: A Conversation on "A New Voice for Israel"
Join Jeremy Ben Ami at the New York Society for Ethical Culture to discuss his new book, "A New Voice for Israel: Fighting for the Survival of a Jewish Nation"
Event Location:
New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th Streed
New York, NY 10023Kindly RSVP for the event here.
- 07/21/2011 - 12:30pm
Do you feel Netanyahu and his policies are leading Israel off a cliff? Are you frustrated that the right in Israel and the US has hijacked what it means to love and support Israel? Do you feel the need to stand up, shout and send a message?
Well we do, too. That's why we're asking you to
JOIN US!!!
Every Thursday, starting on July 21, from 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
at the plaza at Central Park South and 6th Avenue in New York
(entrance to Central Park, 6th Ave. and 59th St. - meet at the flagpole)
(Rain or Shine!) - 06/07/2011 - 8:30am
Meretz USA is delighted to co-sponsor with Americans for Peace Now a special breakfast program featuring Professor Arieh Saposnik, Director of the Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at UCLA.Tuesday, June 7, 2011 8:30 a.m.
Factor's Deli - Back Room 9420 Pico Blvd., Los Angeles (just east of S. Beverly Drive)
Baget Breakfast Buffet begins at 8:30 a.m.
Discussion with a Q & A session to follow.
Cost: $10
RSVP to meretzusa.la@gmail.com
- 06/05/2011 - 10:00amMarching in Tune With Israel's ValuesMeretz USA's Progressive Contingent at the 2011 Celebrate Israel Parade
Sunday, June 510:00 am - 1:00 PM(Estimated step-off time of 11:00 am)Assemble on 5th Ave. between 54th and 55th Streets, Manhattan, NY05/24/2011 - 1:30pmLunch & 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
05/12/2011 - 8:00pmMeretz USA Executive Director, Ron Skolnik, will be speaking at the Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation, in Reston, VA on Thursday, May 12, 8:00 p.m as part of the NVHC's Speaker Series.
The topic of his talk will be "DOMESTIC ISSUES CONFRONTING ISRAEL AND ITS DEMOCRACY".
Israel's domestic problems and the response to them are often played out on the world stage and frequently affect Jews living in the Diaspora. Ron Skolnik will describe some of these issues and how they speak to Israel's survival as a democracy and as a Jewish state. .
Admission is free and open to the public.
For further details, available on the Congregation's website, click here
04/29/2011 - 8:30amMore information about the Hagar Association can be found at www.hajar.org.il.Friday, April 29, 8:30 am
Meretz USA is delighted to host a special breakfast gathering with the Hagar Association, which, since 2006, has been creating bilingual, multicultural educational frameworks in Beer Sheva to promote equality, tolerance and mutual understanding among the Jewish and Arab residents of the city and throughout the Negev region.
Our guest speakers will be Amal Elsana Alhjooj, Founder and parent, Hagit Damri, Executive Director and parent and Lauren Joseph, Director of Development. Amal and Hagit will speak about their individual stories and of their collective vision for a shared society at Hagar and how it has influenced the greater community. They will also share Hagar's story and discuss Hagar's community of coexistence in Beer Sheva and the work they are doing to bring equality and peace to the region.
9420 West Pico Boulevard
The breakfast will take place on:
Friday, April 29, 8:30 am
Factor's Deli
Los Angeles, CA 90035
(1/2 block East of Beverly Drive)
Breakfast Buffet: $15 per person
RSVP to meretzusa.la@gmail.com
This event is being co-sponsored by Americans for Peace Now, Ameinu and New Israel Fund.03/26/2011 - 3:39pm02/26/2011 - 6:00pm
Meretz USA Board member (and former Executive Director), Charney Bromberg, was a recent panelist on
the Shalom TV cable network, taking part in a discussion that debated the question: Are Israel's West Bank settlements obstacles to peace? With co-panelist Yishai Fleisher, director of programming for Arutz 7, the pro-settlement radio station in Israel, and a West Bank settler leader.
The panel discussion can be viewed online by clicking here. It will also be available Free On Demand on most cable TV systems any time between February 1-26. Go to www.shalomtv.com and click on "Find Us" on the menu bar to find out the channel numbers on your cable system. Once at the Shalom TV channel, the program can be found in the category, News and Israel, and is entitled, "Israeli Settlements & Peace: Debate"
02/26/2011 - 9:00am
Join Meretz USA at JStreet's 2011 National Conference
01/28/2011 - 8:00am
Meretz USA is delighted to co-sponsor a special breakfast program featuring political science Professor Galia Golan, a longstanding Meretz party leader and a key figure in Peace Now in Israel.
Friday, January 28, 2011, 8:00-9:30 a.m.
Factor's Deli - Back Room
9420 Pico Blvd., Los Angeles (just east of S. Beverly Drive)
Baget Breakfast Buffet begins at 8:00 a.m.
Discussion to follow
Cost: $15
RSVP to meretzusa.la@gmail.com
Given the current shake-up in Israeli party politics, and the tumultuous events in Israel, it is an ideal time for Political Scientist and peace activist Galia Golan to be in L.A. and provide her analysis. Professor Golan is among the most incisive and articulate speakers on this issue and appears regularly in the Israeli and international press.
The event is sponsored by Americans for Peace Now.About Prof. Golan:Professor Galia Golan is the head of the M.A. program and the M.A. specialization in Diplomacy and Conflict Studies at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel. She is the author of nine books mainly on Soviet policy in the Middle East, as well as monographs and articles including work on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Her most recent works include a book, Israel and Palestine: Peace Plans and Proposals From Oslo to Disengagement. Golan was the recipient of the 2007 Israeli Political Science Association Award for Contribution to the Field, the 1995 New Israel Fund Award for Women in Leadership, and the 1999 Gleistsman Activist Award for long-time peace activism.To read more about Galia Golan, click here.
- 01/22/2011 - 6:00pm
Meretz USA Executive Director, Ron Skolnik, was a recent panelist on
the Shalom TV cable network, taking part in a discussion that recapped the most important events impacting Israel in 2010. With co-panelists Neal Sher (past exec. director of AIPAC), Steven Bayme (AJC), and Binyamin "Buddy" Korn (former director of CAMERA) .
The panel discussion can be viewed online by clicking here. It will also be available Free On Demand on most cable TV systems any time between December 26-January 22. Go to www.shalomtv.com and click on "Find Us" on the menu bar to find out the channel numbers on your cable system. Once at the Shalom TV channel, the program can be found in the category, News and Israel, and is entitled, "2010 Retrospective: Israel"
- 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
- 01/08/2011 - 6:00pm
A talk by Meretz official and former MK Avshalom ("Abu") Vilan at the Meretz USA offices in Beit Shalom was filmed by Shalom TV and segments are now available on television and the web.
Amongst the issues covered, Abu Vilan surveys Israeli public opinion, the balance of power in the current Knesset, the possible demise of the Labor Party and why so many Israelis love Avigdor Lieberman and won't vote for Meretz.
To view an edited version of the talk online, click here
(the talk itself starts at minute 5:00)It is also available Free On Demand on most cable TV systems from December 12th through Saturday night, January 8th. Go to www.shalomtv.com and click on "Find Us" on the menu bar to find out the channel numbers on your cable system. Once at the Shalom TV channel, the program can be found in the category, News and Israel.
- 12/05/2010 - 8:30am
Rabbis for
Human Rights - North America is sponsoring its Third Annual Conference on
Judaism and Human Rights and Meretz USA is proud to be one of their cosponsors. Please join us at this wonderful event!
The conference will be held December 5-7 in New York City.
- 12/04/2010 - 12:38pm
Meretz USA Vice President, Prof. Leonard Grob, was a recent panelist on Shalom TV for a discussion of the Vatican's October 2010 "Synod for the Middle East" - a forum that was criticized by Israel's government and parts of the American Jewish community.
Prof. Grob's co-panelists were Neal Sher, former executive-director of AIPAC, and Elan Steinberg, executive director emeritus of the World Jewish Congress. The panel was moderated by Shalom TV President, Rabbi Mark Golub.
The discussion can be viewed online by clicking here.
12/03/2010 - 8:00am
Meretz USA is delighted to host a special breakfast gathering to introduce you to the Hagar Association, which, since 2006, has been creating bilingual, multicultural educational frameworks in Beer Sheva to promote equality, tolerance and mutual understanding among the Jewish and Arab residents of the city and throughout the Negev region.Our guest speaker will be Ms. Lauren Joseph of Hagar. Lauren will share Hagar's story, and discuss Hagar's community of coexistence in Beer Sheva and the work they are doing to bring equality and peace to the region.
The breakfast will take place on:
Friday, December 3rd, 8am11/14/2010 - 4:00pm
For the third year running, Meretz USA is proud to be a partner of the Other Israel Film Festival.
ID BLUES - JEWISH AND DEMOCRATIC (NY PREMIERE)
50 minutesThis year, we will be co-sponsoring the screening of the final and most controversial part in Haim Yavin’s powerful travelogue, “ID Blues – Jewish and Democratic”, which examines the daily lives and struggles facing Arab citizens in Israeli society.
Sunday, November 14, 4:00 pm @ The JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave @ 76th Street in New York City.
Often referred to as “Israel’s Walter Cronkite”, Mr. Yavin anchored “Mabat”, Israel’s primetime news roundup on Israeli television, for 4 decades. After staying out of Israel’s political fray for many years, his earlier documentary, “Land of the Settlers”, in 2005, established him as an important progressive voice in Israeli discourse.
Panel discussion immediately following this screening at 5 pm:
Following the film, please stick around and join us as Meretz USA Vice President, Prof. Leonard Grob, moderates an in-depth panel discussion with renowned Israeli historian, Prof. Benny Morris, and Israeli journalist, Aharon (Arale) Barnea, where we will probe the tensions inherent in Israel’s efforts to remain both Jewish and democratic.
