Join us for a conversation about Yiddish culture, political imagination, and alternative visions of Jewish life in Israel/Palestine. Dr. Adi Mahalel will discuss Boom and Chains, Hanan Ayalti's Yiddish novel set in Mandatory Palestine, recently published in English translation with Mahalel's scholarly introduction. Moderated by Dr. Jonathan Boyarin, the discussion will examine questions of Zionism, socialism, Jewish-Arab relations, language politics, and the role of dissenting voices in Jewish history.

Join us for a timely conversation with Rabbi Mikhael Manekin as he reflects on the challenges and opportunities of building a movement for equality, democracy, and shared society in wartime Israel.

Join us virtually to learn more about Bnei Avraham, the field activist arm of HaSmol HaEmuni. Hear directly from religious activists who are passionately engaged in protective presence work, standing arm in arm with Palestinian communities as they resist oppression and dispossession and work together to build a more just future.

Join Bnei Avraham activist Roei Kleitman for a conversation about faith, solidarity, and moral responsibility in a time of escalating violence in the West Bank. Drawing on Torah, firsthand experience, and on-the-ground realities, Roei will share what he has witnessed through protective presence work and how Jewish values shape his response.

Join us at an NIF sponsored event to hear from Israeli activists engaged in "protective presence" who are putting their bodies on the line to help protect Palestinian communities in the West Bank facing settler violence. We will hear their stories and testimonies and highlight the crucial role they play in responding to violence on the ground.​

Israelis and Palestinians are living through a time of profound crisis. Violence without end - and an ongoing reality of grief, instability, and urgency. Even the belief that a different future is possible is under attack.

Join us for a unique opportunity to hear directly from Dr. Rula Hardal and May Pundak, co-executive directors of A Land for All, to explore what a shared future could look like - and how it can begin.

In light of the recent reporting regarding systemic sexual abuse in Israeli prisons, as well as the deteriorating circumstances in Gaza, we invite you all to an emergency briefing with Professor Dan Turner regarding the situation of Palestinians in custody and the state of healthcare in Gaza.

Join us for a reading of original work by Israeli teenagers — Jewish and Arab — who are traveling across the United States to share poetry, stories, and essays shaped by their experiences of living through conflict, followed by a Q&A with the student writers, and a wine and cheese reception.

These young writers are part of Debate for Peace and the Writers Matter program, initiatives that bring Palestinian and Israeli students together to process profound challenges through creative expression — and to encounter one another across lines of difference.

Join Smol Emuni US on Yom Ha’atzmaut for a timely conversation on Zionism with Rabbi Zachary Truboff and Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller. Centered on Rabbi Truboff’s new book, Zionism in Crisis: Jewish Power and Moral Responsibility After October 7, the discussion will engage pressing and difficult questions about Zionism and its current state.

Join a rabbi, a Jewish educator, and a Smol Emuni US organizer as they share Torah they feel has been missing from Jewish life over the past two years. Learn more about Smol Emuni US. Come for learning, listening, and sharing.

Our Online Community Gathering series creates a safe and intentional space for like-minded individuals to come together in reflection and connection. Grounded in Torah and responsive to the challenges and opportunities of this moment, each gathering includes a short Dvar Torah, small-group discussions around shared themes, and a concluding group conversation. Join us to build community and share perspectives with each other.

There is interest in our area in starting a Skokie/Chicago branch of Smol Emuni. Rabbi Yosef Blau has graciously agreed to speak to a group of us on Sunday, January 11. We invite you to come to a home in Skokie (address will be sent to those who RSVP). We will have food and introductions, hear from Rabbi Blau via Zoom, after which he has said he would be happy to take questions.

This event is part of the lecture series at B’nai Jershurun in New York City titled At a Crossroads: American Judaism at an Unprecedented Time.

A Conversation with Rabbi Jill Jacobs (T’ruah), Esther Sperber (Smol Emuni US), Peter Beinart, and Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove (Park Avenue Synagogue), moderated by Rabbi Irwin Kula.

Join us for a gathering this Chanukah to share community and light with one another. We will have short programming with candle lighting, and live music by Yaala Ballin & Ari Roland. We will ask for a donation of $10 for entry, which includes music and food. Drinks can be purchased at the bar.

This event will be hosted at a bar and is 21+. Guests must bring ID.

Please join us for a discussion with Dr. Tomer Persico about his upcoming book, with moderator and discussant Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz.

This is a hybrid event - in person on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and on zoom.

Join us for a conversation with Professor Daniel Kurtzer in a special hybrid event to mark Yitzhak Rabin’s 30th Yahrzeit.

12-12:30 pm EST - Bagels and Shmooze in-person / Shmooze on zoom
12:30 pm-1:30 pm EST - Conversation with Professor Daniel Kurtzer

Join David Myers in conversation with Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard.

Michael Sfard is renowned as one of Israel's leading human rights lawyers and activists. He specializes in international human rights law and the laws of war, with a special emphasis on the laws of belligerent occupation. He is the author of six books including most recently Occupation From Within: A Journey to the Roots of the Constitutional Coup (2025) (Hebrew) and The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine and the Legal Battle for Human Rights (2018). 

This event can be attended in person in LA (address available upon registration), or on zoom.

This event is co-sponsored by Smol Emuni US, UnXeptable LA, the New Israel Fund, IAJ, and LA Friends of Standing Together.

As we prepare for Yom Kippur, please join us for music, a shiur with Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller and abbreviated Slichot on Motzei Shabbat Shuva.

This event will be a hybrid event, in-person at Ansche Chesed on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and via livestream.

Join us on Shabbat afternoon, September 13 at 5:30 pm to hear from Mikhael Manekin about his work founding the Israeli Faithful Left, his writing, and activism in this current moment. The event will take place at a private home in Park Slope, accessible by walking in Central Brooklyn.

Join us to hear from MK Ayman Odeh in conversation with Dr. Lihi Ben Shitrit about his experiences as a Palestinian citizen of Israel in these challenging times, as a Member of Knesset, and his work pursuing Arab-Jewish partnership, equality, and peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

A special Haaretz event in JCC Manhattan, in partnership with JStreet and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), will bring together voices from Israel and the U.S. to explore the challenges and responsibilities facing liberal democratic societies today — and to examine the intensity of the threat to Israel's present and future as a liberal democracy.

Protecting the Soul

During the month of mercy and forgiveness, we will gather at the annual conference of the Faithful Left movement in Jerusalem.

Now is the time to choose life, to choose kindness and compassion, to stop the war, and to remember — “Whoever saves a single life is considered as if they saved an entire world.”

Shira Ben Sasson Furstenberg is the Associate Director of NIF Israel and Director of the Development and International Relations Department.

Yair Furstenberg is the Louis Ginsberg Professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on the emergence of early rabbinic literature and law during the first centuries CE within its Greco-Roman context.

Join us on Zoom to learn with Rabbi Truboff as we usher in the month of Elul.

Rabbi Zachary Truboff is the Director of the International Beit Din Institute for Agunah Research and Education, a halachic think tank dedicated to addressing the agunah problem.

Join us for a private screening of “No Other Land”, which shows the struggle of the villagers living in Masafer Yata, a collection of 19 villages in the south Hebron hills, who are threatened by Israeli soldiers and settlers. In the film, an alliance develops between the Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Avraham, resisting through nonviolence the attacks of both settlers and the army.

Rabbi Zachery Truboff

The Health Crisis in Gaza - Panel Discussion
Dr. Mimi Syed and Tirza Leibowitz
Please note: This presentation includes graphic images and difficult content.

Come and See the Power of Humiliation: Reading Tragedy in Gittin and Gaza - Shi’ur
Rabbi David Polsky

After a groundbreaking first year of grassroots organizing in the U.S.—including our inaugural Smol Emuni US Conference—we invite you to join us for "Get to Know Smol Emuni."

In this special webinar, U.S. organizers Esther Sperber and Rachel Landsberg will be joined by Mikhael Manekin, founder of Smol Emuni in Israel, for a dynamic conversation about our movement’s roots, shared values, and evolving vision. Whether you're new to Smol Emuni or already engaged, this is a chance to connect, learn, and deepen your understanding of our growing transatlantic community.

Rabbi Yosef Blau was the Mashgiach Ruchani, Director of Religious Guidance, at Yeshiva University for five decades. A graduate of Yeshiva College, he received his Master's degree in Math at YU's Belfer Graduate School and ordination from Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik. He recently made Aliya to Israel. He gave the opening video speech at the Smol Emuni US conference.

We are excited to offer a zoom option for the first time, and encourage you to help us expand our community by inviting friends and family to view the zoom together. We will include questions from zoom participants submitted through the zoom chat.