View events that NIF Australia has run in the past, including campaigns with Naomi Chazan, David Landau, Daniel Sokatch, Gershom Gorenberg and Hagai El-Ad.
RSVP for Mickey Gitzin NIForum - Sydney
NIF Australia is pleased to invite you
to an evening 20s and 30s NIForum event in Sydney with special guest
Mickey Gitzin
from freedom of religion and pluralism organisation Israel Hofshit
"The people, demanding everything, got nothing - Ha'am doresh tzedek chevrati - The people demand social justice, was the catch cry of 2011's social justice protest movement. The tent protests galvanised the entire Jewish world, but what's been achieved in the two years since? Mickey Gitzin, discusses his organisation's post-protest movement focus -- the separation of religion and state, and the end of the Ultra-Orthodox rabbinate monopoly -- and their successes and ongoing challenges."
Mickey Gitzin is the executive director of Israel Hofshit (“Be Free Israel”), the leading grassroots organisation in Israel dedicated to promoting freedom of religion and pluralism as core democratic values.
Created in 2009, Israel Hofshit believes that all forms of belief and practice among Jewish people are legitimate and should be accepted and supported by the state of Israel and that doing so enhances democratic values, which are critical to the success of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.
Previously, Mickey was the spokesperson for MK Ilan Gilon (Meretz), and worked as the Associate Director of "Festival Beshekel" an Israeli non-profit, which works to develop avenues for cultural and artistic expression in the periphery of Israel. After completing his military service as an Intelligence Officer at the IDF, Mickey served as an Emissary (Shaliach) for the Jewish Agency for Israel under the auspice of the Jewish Federation of South Band, Indiana.
Israel Hofshit aims to:
- To achieve the right to a civil marriage for all Israel’s citizens
- To eliminate gender segregation on public transport and in public spaces
- To gain state recognition for Reform and Conservative conversions and weddings
- To provide equal opportunity for Jewish prayer at the Western Wall to women and non-Orthodox Jews
- To end the Rabbinate’s discrimination against women with regard to divorce
- To end segregation of Ashkenazi, Mizrahi (Sephardic & Middle Eastern) and Ethiopian students within religious schools
- To end the exemptions, provided to state religious schools, from teaching the core curriculum (basic math, science, English and civics) in the hope that higher numbers of ultra-Orthodox will be achieve gainful employment and the enormous percentage living on welfare will be reduced.
We're very grateful for Limmud-Oz for bringing out Mickey to Australia with us.
Election wrap with former Knesset Speaker Avrum Burg
Just 36 hours after Israel's election, NIF Australia is hosting an exclusive livestream briefing with former Knesset speaker and former chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel and World Zionist Organization, Avraham 'Avrum' Burg.
What were the results? Who are the winners and losers? Who will make up Israel’s next coalition? What are the impacts on human rights, social justice, religious pluralism, Israel's minorities and the peace process? Join Avrum Burg and NIF Australia to dissect the election results.
Currently chairman of Molad, a new progressive thinktank and NIF grantee, Burg has decades of experience in government, civil society and Israel-Diaspora relations. He will offer his insight into the recent election campaign, the rise of Habayit Hayehudi, the fractured left and centre-left, the attempted expulsion of a Palestinian Israeli candidate, and what he thinks the next three years will bring for Israeli politics.
Join us on Thursday January 24th at 8:00 PM for a briefing and Q&A with one of Israel's most distinguished authors and politicians.
The easiest way is simply to log on to our website at 8:00 PM (Eastern time) on Thursday January 24th and watch the livestream as it happens. Just bookmark this page and we'll add the video here on the night.
You can ask your questions and add a comment next to the video, or using the Twitter hashtag, #NIFAUelection.
We also have limited spaces at venues in both Melbourne and Sydney to join other NIF supporters, come together and discuss the election results. But don’t worry if you can’t make it – you’ll get exactly the same experience and opportunity to ask questions from home.
We hope that you’ll join us as we try this new method of bringing NIF Australia supporters together to engage with critical issues affecting Israel and Australian Jewry.
Election wrap event - Sydney
Just 36 hours after Israel's election, NIF Australia is hosting an exclusive livestream briefing with former Knesset speaker and former chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel and World Zionist Organization, Avrum Burg.
If you would like to join us in Sydney for this unique livestream then please RSVP below. Numbers are strictly limited. You can stream the video from home, if you prefer. You will be sent the full address of the event closer to the date.
Unfortunately, we have run out of places at our Sydney venue. Please bookmark http://www.nif.org.au/election_wrap_2013 and you can stream the event from home.
Election wrap event - Melbourne
Just 36 hours after Israel's election, NIF Australia is hosting an exclusive livestream briefing with former Knesset speaker and former chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel and World Zionist Organization, Avrum Burg.
If you would like to join us in Melbourne for this unique livestream then please RSVP below. Numbers are strictly limited. You can stream the video from home, if you prefer. You will be sent the full address of the event closer to the date.
Gershom Gorenberg in Sydney
"The Second Israeli Republic: Saving the democratic Jewish state"
Gershom Gorenberg has written for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and, in Hebrew, Ha'aretz. He is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and blogs at SouthJerusalem.com. Gorenberg is the author of The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 and The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount.
His latest book, The Unmaking of Israel, is a brilliant, deeply personal critique by a progressive Israeli, and a plea for realizing the nation’s potential. In order to save itself, Gorenberg argues, Israel must end the occupation, separate state from religion, and create a new civil Israeli identity that can be shared by Jews and Arabs. The book is based on groundbreaking historical research—including documents released through the author’s Israeli Supreme Court challenge to military secrecy—and on a quarter century of experience reporting in the region.
Gershom Gorenberg is a visiting scholar of the Shalom Institute.
Buy tickets online, or at the door. (Tickets are free for youth movement members wearing their chultzot.)
Gershom Gorenberg in Melbourne
"The Second Israeli Republic: Saving the democratic Jewish state"
Gershom Gorenberg has written for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and, in Hebrew, Ha'aretz. He is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and blogs at SouthJerusalem.com. Gorenberg is the author of The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 and The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount.
His latest book, The Unmaking of Israel, is a brilliant, deeply personal critique by a progressive Israeli, and a plea for realizing the nation’s potential. In order to save itself, Gorenberg argues, Israel must end the occupation, separate state from religion, and create a new civil Israeli identity that can be shared by Jews and Arabs. The book is based on groundbreaking historical research—including documents released through the author’s Israeli Supreme Court challenge to military secrecy—and on a quarter century of experience reporting in the region.
Gershom Gorenberg is a visiting scholar of the Shalom Institute.
Buy tickets online, or at the door. (Tickets are free for youth movement members wearing their chultzot.)
Hagai El-Ad's Melbourne NIForum event
NEW ISRAEL FUND AUSTRALIA is delighted to invite NIF Australia supporters in their
20s and 30s to a special briefing with one of Israel's leading civil rights activists
HAGAI EL-AD
Topic: "The Civil and Human Rights Issues Most Crucial To Israel’s Future As A Liberal Democracy"
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Hagai El-Ad joined the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) as Executive Director in July 2008. He brings to ACRI extensive experience as a leader in the field of human rights, in Israel and abroad.
Born in Haifa, Mr El-Ad studied at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for astrophysics for three years (1997-2000) as a pre-doctoral fellow, having completed his B.Sc. (Special Honors Program, 1994) and M.Sc. (Astrophysics, 1996) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Over the last decade, Mr El-Ad has become an influential advocate whose views on Arab-Jewish relations, human and civil rights, LGBT rights and equality in Israel have been widely published.
ACRI is Israel's oldest and largest human rights organisations and one of NIF's most important grantees.
Hagai El-Ad's Melbourne communal event
NEW ISRAEL FUND AUSTRALIA is delighted to invite
you to communal briefing with one of Israel's leading civil rights activists
HAGAI EL-AD
Topic: "Mind the gap: The big issues emerging from the social justice protests"
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Hagai El-Ad joined the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) as Executive Director in July 2008. He brings to ACRI extensive experience as a leader in the field of human rights, in Israel and abroad.
Born in Haifa, Mr El-Ad studied at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for astrophysics for three years (1997-2000) as a pre-doctoral fellow, having completed his B.Sc. (Special Honors Program, 1994) and M.Sc. (Astrophysics, 1996) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Over the last decade, Mr El-Ad has become an influential advocate whose views on Arab-Jewish relations, human and civil rights, LGBT rights and equality in Israel have been widely published.
ACRI is Israel's oldest and largest human rights organisations and one of NIF's most important grantees.
Entry: $10 / $5 concession.
Hagai El-Ad's Sydney communal event
NEW ISRAEL FUND AUSTRALIA is delighted to invite
you to a communal briefing with one of Israel's leading civil rights activists
HAGAI EL-AD
Topic: How does an Israeli astrophysicist come to be involved in human rights?
Shirli Kirchner interviews Hagai El-Ad about social justice issues in Israel today.
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Hagai El-Ad joined the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) as Executive Director in July 2008. He brings to ACRI extensive experience as a leader in the field of human rights, in Israel and abroad.
Born in Haifa, Mr El-Ad studied at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for astrophysics for three years (1997-2000) as a pre-doctoral fellow, having completed his B.Sc. (Special Honors Program, 1994) and M.Sc. (Astrophysics, 1996) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Over the last decade, Mr El-Ad has become an influential advocate whose views on Arab-Jewish relations, human and civil rights, LGBT rights and equality in Israel have been widely published.
ACRI is Israel's oldest and largest human rights organisations and one of NIF's most important grantees.
Entry: $10 / $5 concession.
Hagai El-Ad's Inner West communal event
NEW ISRAEL FUND AUSTRALIA is delighted to invite
you to a communal briefing with one of Israel's leading civil rights activists
HAGAI EL-AD
Topic: "What’s with human rights in Israel? Real stories from the source."
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Hagai El-Ad joined the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) as Executive Director in July 2008. He brings to ACRI extensive experience as a leader in the field of human rights, in Israel and abroad.
Born in Haifa, Mr El-Ad studied at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for astrophysics for three years (1997-2000) as a pre-doctoral fellow, having completed his B.Sc. (Special Honors Program, 1994) and M.Sc. (Astrophysics, 1996) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Over the last decade, Mr El-Ad has become an influential advocate whose views on Arab-Jewish relations, human and civil rights, LGBT rights and equality in Israel have been widely published.
ACRI is Israel's oldest and largest human rights organisations and one of NIF's most important grantees.