Givat Haviva Responds to Racist Rabbinic Ruling
December 15, 2010
As a veteran Israeli organization that has been promoting Jewish-Arab co-existence, dialogue and shared society for over 61 years, we are shocked and appalled regarding the recent racist "halakha" professing to represent...
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For Jews and Arabs, A Focus On Friendship
By Doug Chandler, Special to the Jewish Week
August 13, 2010
Neri Danon and Danielle Shimoni, both 17-year-olds from Israel’s north-central region, have spent the past year forming close friendships with Arab youth who, like them, are citizens of the Jewish state. But both expressed pain...
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Interview with Myriam Dagan Brenner, Director, Noa/Nuha Center for Women and Gender Studies, Givat Haviva
By David Leach, from his blogspot, Look Back to Galilee
August 5, 2010
On the morning of June 22, we rendezvoused with Myriam Dagan Brenner at a noisy coffeeshop on the outskirts of Afula, near the moshav where she lives. Myriam is a lively, opinionated, and big-hearted coordinator at Givat Haviva with...
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New Students Begin MASA Intensive Arabic Semester At Givat Haviva
By Lydia Aisenberg
July 19, 2010
Students from the United States, Canada and Germany began the third term of the 5-month MASA Givat Haviva Intensive Arabic Semester in the beginning of July.
The students who met with Givat Haviva teaching and administrative...
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Delegation of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues Visits Givat Haviva
By Lydia Aisenberg
May 24, 2010
Givat Haviva recently welcomed the opportunity to host a delegation from the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues during the Task Force Annual Study Trip to Israel (May 2-6).
A coalition of North American Jewish...
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Students Travel Linguistic and Cultural Road Map in Israel - MASA-Givat Haviva Intensive Arabic Semester
By Lydia Aisenberg
April 27, 2010
Three months into the five-month MASA-Givat Haviva Intensive Arabic Semester, students from Britain and America are making positive inroads to the languages and diverse cultures of Arabs and Jews in Israel.
With a focus...
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Reflections with Yaniv Sagee, Israel Representative to Givat Haviva in North America
April 27, 2010
Yaniv was born and lives on Kibbutz Ein Hashofet in Israel. He came to New York in September with his wife Galia, who is a theatre director, teacher, and educational counselor, and their three children. Givat Haviva Communications...
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100 Years of the Kibbutz Celebration - New York City
March 13, 2010
A very blustery and rainy March evening did not deter 150 people including Gabriela Shalev, the Israel Ambassador to the United Nations, and Asaf Shariv, Counsul General of Israel to New York from celebrating 100 Years of the Kibbutz...
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