Safeguarding Democracy and Civil Rights in Israel

New Israel Fund presents
Safeguarding Democracy and Civil Rights in Israel

A conversation with Sharon Abraham-Weiss
Executive Director the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)
Israel’s oldest and largest civil rights organization

Friday, April 24^th at 8:30 - 10:00 am at the Boulder Jewish Community Center, 3800 Kalmia Ave
Breakfast provided
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Recent events during Israel’s elections have highlighted more than ever before worrying trends in Israeli society towards overt racism and ultra-nationalism. Already the new Knesset is reviving anti-democratic legislation aimed at weakening the state’s democratic character, such as the “nation-state” bill.

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), the country’s equivalent of the ACLU, is the frontline defender of civil liberties and New Israel Fund’s flagship grantee. ACRI has won legal landmarks before Israel’s Supreme Court such as recognition of same-sex marriages and non-Orthodox conversions from outside Israel, the right of women to become IDF pilots, and last fall a petition safeguarding Africans seeking refuge from genocide.

Sharon Abraham-Weiss, one of Israel’s foremost legal experts and litigators, comes to Colorado to share the urgency of American Jewry’s support for Israel’s democratic values at a time when liberal Zionism and Jewish democracy is under question from inside Israel and out.

About Us

Sharon Abraham-Weiss is the Executive Director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). Previously, she represented ACRI in such landmark cases dealing with family unification, social welfare, and state land distribution. She has also served on the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission of the Ministry of Economy. She is a founding member of Itach-Maaki: Women Lawyers for Social Justice and co-founder of The Hebrew University’s Breira Center, which coordinates law students volunteering in the community. She holds LL.B. and B.Sc. degrees from The Hebrew University and an LL.M from Tel Aviv University. She also holds an M.A. in public administration from Harvard Kennedy School, where she was a Wexner Fellow. 

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, established in 1972, is Israel’s oldest and largest human rights organization and the only one dealing with the entire spectrum of human rights and civil liberties issues in Israel. More here: www.acri.org.il/en/

The New Israel Fund is the leading organization committed to equality and democracy for all Israelis. More here: www.nif.org

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