Fighting for political survival, Labor chief wants American Jews to help rebuild liberal Zionism
MK Merav Michael called the massive protests against the government’s judicial overhaul plan a ‘huge opportunity’ for the Israeli left
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The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations is planning to host Zoom calls in the coming weeks where the leading candidates for prime minister in Israel’s March 23 elections will speak directly to the top leaders of the group’s 53 member organizations. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to accept the invitation, a…
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Breaking News Israeli American Rank And File Not In Sync With Adelson’s Hardline Vision
On stage at the national conference of the Israeli-American Council, Israel’s hawkish deputy minister of foreign affairs, Tzipi Hotovely, seemed surprised, and then annoyed, as the crowd turned against her. Hotovely had likely expected to find a friendly audience among the Israeli-Americans. Their organization’s leading donor, Sheldon Adelson, is America’s best-known pro-Israel hawk. But within…
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Life New Feminist Knesset
The minute I saw that new MK Merav Michaeli’s inaugural (some call it “maiden,” but I prefer “inaugural”) speech to the Knesset on Wednesday had gone online, I immediately remembered a Sisterhood post I wrote prior to the recent Israeli elections about Ha’aretz political writer Yossi Verter’s sexism. In a piece on the Labor Party…
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Life The State of Sexual Harassment in Israel
A woman in Israel recently won the equivalent of about $8,000 in a lawsuit against her employer on the grounds that his habit of routinely calling her into his office to watch porn on his computer constitutes sexual harassment. Although he had not requested any sexual “favors” from her, the District Tel Aviv Labor Court…
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