Meretz USA
114 West 26th St. #1002
New York,
NY,
10001
Fax: (212) 242 5718 mail@meretzusa.org
- 08/06/2010 - 8:00am
Please join Meretz USA and the New Israel Fund for an intimate breakfast to meet with
NIF's CEO
Daniel Sokatch
Friday, August 6th
8:00 - 9:30 am
Jerry's Famous Deli
10925 Weyburn Avenue
Westwood, CA$12 per person
RSVP to Meretz USA at meretzusa.la@gmail.com
- 07/31/2010 - 11:59pm
Meretz USA Executive Director, Ron Skolnik, was a recent panelist on the Shalom TV cable network, taking part in a discussion in the wake of the recent Obama-Netanyahu summit in Washington. The panel also included Rabbi David Nesenoff of rabbilive.com, Adam Dickter of the Jewish Week, and Seth Mandell of the Jewish State newspaper.
The panel discussion can be viewed online by clicking here. It will also be available Free On Demand any time between July 18-31. Go to www.shalomtv.com and click on "Find Us" on the menu bar to learn how to find Shalom TV on your cable system. The program can be found in the category, News and Israel.
- 07/16/2010 - 8:00am
If you don't know Danny Seidemann,
You don't know Jerusalem
Meretz USA is
co-sponsoring a special breakfast event with Americans for Peace Now and
Workmen’s Circle (Arbeter Ring).Friday, July 16, 2010 at 8:00am
Factor's Famous Deli - Outdoor Patio
9420 W. Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles
(just east of S. Beverly Drive)
You are invited to a Breakfast Briefing in Los Angeles on Friday, July 16, to meet and hear from Danny Seidemann, the Israeli who is regarded as the world's leading expert on geopolitical Jerusalem. - 06/16/2010 - 7:00pm
J Street NYC and the New York Society for Ethical Culture present
WHO SPEAKS FOR ME? Israel and America in the 21st Century
Co-sponsored by
Meretz USA
Rabbis for Human Rights, North AmericaWhen: Wednesday, June 16th, 7 p.m.
Where: New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th St. at Central Park West
Requested donation: $20 | $10 for seniors and young adults (under 25)
Click here to RSVP.
- 05/22/2010 - 7:00pm
Yael Dayan, the
daughter of Moshe Dayan, is a well-known writer and peace activist in
Israel. She's served in the Knesset and has been a staunch proponent of
human rights. Havdalah (close of Shabbat) ceremony and dessert
reception follows.Location: The Village Temple, 33 East 12th St. btwn Broadway and University Pl. 7p, Saturday May 22nd.
Meretz USA is a co-sponsor of this event with Ameinu and Romemu.
- 05/20/2010 - 7:30pm
MAP (Mental health Activists in Partnership) Invites You to
An Evening of Study
From the Ground and From the Heart:
Anguish and Activism in the Holy Land.
A Holocaust scholar and an Israeli activist reflect on obstacles and possibilities in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Thursday evening, May 20th, 7:30 pm
The Church of Saint Paul and Saint Andrew
86th and West End Ave, in the Chapel (entrance 86th St.)
This is an extraordinary opportunity to learn about the possibilities for humanizing this spiraling inferno with:
Leonard Grob, PhD, Vice-President of Meretz USA, coeditor of Anguished Hoped: Holocaust Scholars Confront the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
and
Sarah Kreimer, long-time Israeli activist, and author of an upcoming memoir: Visions and Divisions in Israel: My Journey Along the Seam
**Additionally, there will be representatives from several, vital NGOs working towards peace to meet before the presentations begin with those interested in getting involved (New Israel Fund, Friends of the Earth Middle East, Abraham’s Vision, Hand-in-Hand, Ir Amim, Meretz/USA, and others)
RSVP: mapstudygroup@gmail.com
Mental Health Activists in Partnership/MAP
Cost: $15
(arrangements can be made for those observing the Jewish holiday)
- 05/17/2010 - 6:30pm
To RSVP please click here to print and send the RSVP form.
- 03/13/2010 - 9:00am
The 2010 Israel Symposium
March 13-20, 2010
Presented by Meretz USA and the World Union of Meretz
The Israel Symposium is an intense one-week trip to Israel that allows participants to meet, learn from and build bridges with progressive Israelis, Jewish and Arab. - 01/21/2010 - 12:00pm
Join us by conference call on Thursday, January 21 at 12 noon Eastern time (9 am Pacific) as "Women of the Wall" (WOW) Chairwoman Anat Hoffman discusses the Israeli authorities' recent clampdown on her group's prayer activities at the Western Wall.
Following the detention of WOW member Nofrat Frenkel on November 18, and her own interrogation by the Israel Police on January 5, Hoffman will explain her group's cause, offer her impressions as to why the police have chosen to step up the pressure on WOW, and discuss what Jews around the world can do to help.
(Ms. Hoffman suggests that, if possible, participants view a 5 minute clip from the documentary "Praying In Her Own Voice", directed by Yael Katzir. Click here to watch.) - 12/04/2009 - 8:00am
Please join us for a breakfast program:
Promoting Peace Between Israel and Palestine
with special guest:Ambassador Philip Wilcox
Distinguished U.S. Diplomat (ret.) & President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace
Friday, December 4, 2009, 8:00 a.m.Factor's Deli - Private Back Room
9420 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles 90035Bagel Breakfast - $10 (pay at door)
RSVP to apnwest@peacenow.org or 323-934-3480
Ambassador Wilcox served 31 distinguished years as a U.S. diplomat, many of then related to Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East. Ambassador Wilcox was head of the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem, Director for Israeli and Arab-Israeli Affairs and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Middle Eastern Affairs, and Ambassador at Large and Coordinator for Counter Terrorism. - 11/16/2009 - 8:30am
Join us for a Breakfast and Discussion with
Dan Fleshler: Transforming
America's Israel Lobby
Monday, November 16, 8:30 a.m.
Jerry's Famous Deli
10925 Weyburn Ave., 2nd Floor Meeting Rm.
Westwood VillageRSVP to apnwest@peacenow.org or 323-934-3480
Cost - $15 (includes breakfast buffet)
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. Former Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis has written that Fleshler's book "dispels many myths while facing squarely some perennial dilemmas faced by peace-seeking American Jews, and outlines a pro-peace, pro-Israeli, pro Palestinian and pro-American road forward for them to take." A leading analyst and adviser on the pro-Israel left, Mr. Fleshler will share his thoughts about the prospects for peace and the role of the American Jewish community in bringing it about.
Sponsors: Ameinu, Americans for Peace Now, J Street, Meretz USA, New Israel Fund, Workmen's Circle (Arbeter Ring) - 11/15/2009 - 5:00pm
Pease join Meretz USA on Sunday, November 15th at 5:00pm at the JCC Manhattan for the Other Israel Film Festival presentation of Sayed Kashua - Forever SacredIsrael, 2009, 56 minutes
Director:
Dorit ZimbalistDespite 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 - 11/03/2009 - 7:30pmJoin us for a program with a very special guest from Israel
Yariv Oppenheimer
General Director of Shalom Achshav (Peace Now, Israel)
Yariv Oppenheimer speaking at a rally in Tel Aviv - 1/10/09
Fourteen Years After:
Working to Fulfill the Peace Legacy of Yitzhak RabinTuesday, November 3, 2009, 7:30 P.M.
Westside Jewish Community Center
5870 W. Olympic Blvd., L.A.
(A few blocks east of Fairfax Ave; park on street or in back lot accessible via little San Vicente Blvd.)RSVP to meretzusa.la@gmail.com
$10 Suggested Donation At The Door
(No one will be turned away)Sponsored by Americans for Peace Now
Co- Sponsored by Meretz USA, J Street, Ameinu, New Israel Fund, and
Workmen's Circle________________________________________________
On November 4th, 1995, Yariv Oppenheimer stood among hundreds of thousands at a peace rally coordinated by Peace Now in what was then called Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv. Eighteen years old and recently inducted in the Israeli Army, Yariv watched as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin climbed the stairs and gave a stirring speech for peace. Without ever imagining what would happen next, Yariv left for an event with his army unit and in the car heard the shocking news that Yitzhak Rabin had been killed at gunpoint by someone bent on preventing his efforts for peace to succeed.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.
- 10/29/2009 - 8:00amJoin 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?
Despite their minority status, Israel's ultra-Orthodox wield immense control over what it means to be Jewish in Israel:
• Gender-segregated public bus lines, in which women are forced to sit at the back of the bus
• De-facto segregation of Ethiopian and Mizrachi students in some government-funded Orthodox schools
• Denial of marriage, burial and other personal rights to those who can't prove their Jewish status
WHAT: Breakfast and Discussion with Shira
Ben-Sasson Furstenberg
WHEN: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at
8:00 amWHERE: The home of Susan Lebow
12837 Highwood St
Los Angeles, CA 90049RSVP: 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
- 10/25/2009 - 9:00am
Join Meretz USA at JStreet's first National Conference
