This is just a quick post to alert everyone to an interesting new development on the New Israel Fund’s website. NIF has introduced a new feature, a quasi-blog of sorts, called "Stories from the Field." For those who do not know or contribute to NIF, you should do both. NIF funds hundreds of the most important and cutting-edge NGOs in Israel. NIF grantees work on everything from civil rights to religious pluralism to Israeli Arab rights to Ethiopian and other new immigrant issues to a range of women’s issues organizations. NIF’s "Law Fellows" program has developed and trained the cream of the crop of the Israeli human and civil rights bar. (It’s also through NIF volunteering that I met my wife.) On the "Stories from the Field" page (found in the "Features" category on the site), NIF Board and staff will post a commentary once every 2 weeks. Visitors to the site will have an opportunity to post comments to, and engage in discussion with, the posts by the NIF Board and staff. In sum, NIF grantees have helped shape Israel’s democracy over the past 25 years — through this site, perhaps we too can have a hand in that process. Although I personally wish NIF would take a more aggressive approach in the United States, and challenge the American Jewish community in the very real way that its grantees challenge Israel, NIF nevertheless deserves all of our support. Perhaps, if this quasi-blog is a success (which means you should send in comments), NIF will see that the community needs it now more than ever to take a stand and help define a new, deeper meaning of the too-often-rote mantra of "support for Israel." And who knows, maybe if you keep checking the site and posting comments, you too will find your true love.
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