Nico Tarosyan and Olga Samosvatov got married on August 4, 2009, in a ceremony sponsored by the NIF, Havaya – Israeli Wedding and Fishka Club
By Jay Shofet, July 20 2010
The joyous holiday of Tu B’Av — an optimal day for weddings, proposals, and romance — was popular in Jerusalem in the Second Temple Times, [...]
A spate of legislation aimed at local NGOs critical of Israel could end up limiting freedom of speech and expression for every Israeli, Ronit Heyd, the executive director of SHATIL, The New Israel Fund’s Empowerment and Training Center for Social Change Organizations in Israel, said on Wednesday, in an exclusive interview with The Jerusalem Post.
“The [...]
From Mixed to Shared
Haifa as a Shared City: International Conference
July 2010
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More than 200 people, organizational representatives and neighborhood activists from Haifa, experts from academia, representatives of local authorities abroad and many others – participated in From Mixed to [...]
June 8, 2010
A landmark event took place in Beersheva last Friday with the first-ever public Pride event. The event made headlines when Beersheva’s mayor pledged his support and NIS 15,000 of city funding. Outraged council members tried to block the city’s support and even called on the mayor to publicly declare his own sexual orientation. [...]
June 8, 2010
The Forum for Childhood Education in the Triangle Holds the Government to its Word
On May 31, the Forum for Childhood Education in the Triangle was officially launched. Consisting of mayors, activists, educators and concerned residents, the forum aims to ensure that more than 2500 children aged 3-4 in the predominantly Arab-Israeli Triangle region [...]
