Voices of Peace, Voices of Sanity
The ongoing escalation of violence, with teenagers on both sides killed in cold blood and the voices of intolerance, hate, and revenge filling the airwaves, has put an entire country on edge. But activists and people of goodwill reacted quickly, and are taking action to oppose violence on both sides, and urging peace, tolerance, dialogue, and a shared society.
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At kidnapping site, Jews and Muslims join in prayer
Tag Meir, a coalition of 43 organizations, including Shatil, which leads the fight against racism, held an inter-faith prayer rally in Gush Etzion, near the kidnapping site, calling for the safe return of three abducted Israeli teenagers.
Read more in the Times of Israel
UPDATE July 3, 2014:
We are devastated to learn of the deaths of the three young Israeli kidnapping victims, Naftali Frankel, Gilad Shaer, and Eyal Yifrah, and the Palestinian teenage boy Mohammed Abu Khdeir. They were murdered by extremists determined to shed innocent blood and to perpetuate conflict.
We join with their families and with everyone mourning these three young men. And we ask that every leader, Israeli and Palestinian, take every step necessary to maintain calm and prevent more loss of life. We owe it to the memories of these young men, and to the countless others who have died in this conflict, to do all we can to bring peace and reconciliation and an end to the bloodshed between our two peoples.
May their memory be a blessing.
Promoting Women on Local Religious Councils
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein recently instructing the Ministry of Religious Services to implement affirmative action for women on Israel’s religious councils. Admirable as this move is, it will not succeed if qualified women are not available to staff such positions. ADVOT, the Shatil guided women’s Mikvah group, is therefore developing a program to find and cultivate the right women who will be capable and willing to take on such roles of responsibility that historically have been off limits to them.
Israel one step closer to bridging male-female wage gaps
The government formally and unanimously endorsed a plan to ensure greater employment of women in the upper ranks of the public service and to narrow wage disparities between men and women in the public service.
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Marching on the Knesset for direct employment
In early June the Coalition for Direct Employment marched through the streets of Jerusalem to a hearing at the Knesset. The Coalition is championing efficiency, equal pay for equal work, and structural changes that will help protect the rights of all Israeli workers.
Negev social entrepreneurs find a home
Established six months ago by Tor Hamidbar, Keren Shemesh and Shatil, BETA is more than an office for social and business entrepreneurs who come from throughout the Negev region to work – and to collaborate. The first such hub in Israel’s Negev, it is also seen as a home by its members.
Entrepreneurs at Beta receive guidance from mentors with expertise in a variety of fields including strategic business development; resource development and income generation; networking and community organizing and media relations, PR and marketing.
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Shatil Has Opened a New Fundraisers Forum in Tel Aviv!
The goals of the forum are:
1) To share knowledge, ideas and expertise by creating a network of fundraisers
2) To increase knowledge and skills of the participants by inviting expert speakers and creating challenging workshops
3) To renew energies and provide mutual support in an open and enjoyable atmosphere of learning together
The meetings will be in English or Hebrew depending on the guest speaker but we will try to make all the content accessible in both languages. The Forum will be facilitated by Elana Dorfman. Elana has 35 years of experience in activism and is an expert in Resource Development for social change organizations.
Click here for more information and to register
In a concerted effort to promote democratic values and alternative discourse among Russian speakers, Shatil, together with Morashtenu, the leading Russian NGO promoting a liberal agenda in Israel, launched in May 2013 RelevantInfo, a Russian-language news and current affairs website.
Op-eds and analyses have appeared on a range of issues, such as social justice, the national budget deliberations, the peace process, rights of the LGBT community, direct employment, public transportation, the October local elections, feminism, the ongoing changes in the Arab world, the struggle for affordable housing, minority rights, the weekly Torah portion (as connected to current events and social justice), etc.
With over 30,000 readers RelevantInfo has already created a place for itself within the wider Russian speaking Israeli discourse. See for yourself (and perhaps use Google translate) at www.relevantinfo.co.il
