Join us for a conversation with Shira Ben Sasson Furstenberg, the New Israel Fund’s Associate Director in Israel, to hear about the fight for religious freedom and social change in Israel. Come learn about how civil society leaders and NIF’s grantees have risen to meet the challenges facing Israel today and to wrestle with the big questions that Israelis -- and American Jews -- are grappling with today.

Shira Ben Sasson Furstenberg is the Associate Director of NIF Israel and Director of the Development and International Relations Department. She previously served as Chief of Staff and spent ten years working as a grants and program officer at NIF and Shatil (NIF's action arm in Israel), focusing on issues of Jewish pluralism and religious freedom. Shira was the director of the Jewish Pluralism Watch, the Masorti (Conservative) Movement's Knesset watch. She also served as the director of iRep -- Israel Religious Expression Platform -- at the Jewish Federations of North America. She had additionally worked at the Knesset research and information center. Shira holds BA and MA degrees in sociology and anthropology from the Hebrew University and lives in Jerusalem.

This program is presented by the Ayin l'Tziyon and Adult Education Committees.

The program will be viewed on Zoom. Register for details.