This is the Forward’s coverage of J Street, a lobby group that advocates for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Community As American Jewish College Students, We Are Deeply Concerned About the Election of Donald Trump.
To the leaders of the American Jewish community, We write to you as American Jewish college students who are deeply concerned about the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States, and its implication for millions of people in our country, in Israel and around the world. In the book of Exodus,…
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Fast Forward Pro-Israel Groups J Street and AIPAC Split on Steve Bannon Appointment
Pro-Israel groups were split on their approach to the incoming Donald Trump administration, with AIPAC resisting pressure to criticize the appointment of far right wing firebrand Stave Bannon to a top White House position. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee declined to weigh in on Bannon, perhaps in hopes of keeping open a pipeline of…
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Israel News Amid Election Strains and Jewish Divisions, Two Antagonists Debate Israel, Civilly
Before things got underway, Rabbi David Wolpe laid down the law. “I have to both ask and warn you not to be antagonistic,” he told the assembled crowd on Wednesday, November 2. “If you’re really difficult, we’ll remove you.” His stern words were not what one might expect in such a genteel setting — an…
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News J Street Comes Under Fire for Quiet Handling of Ari Shavit Sexual Misconduct Claim
After a staff member at the liberal pro-Israel group J Street told her supervisor in 2014 that the prominent Israeli writer Ari Shavit had behaved inappropriately towards her at a J Street conference, the organization decided it would no longer invite Shavit to speak at its events. But J Street did not tell other Jewish…
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Israel News Israeli Writer Ari Shavit Resigns from Haaretz and Channel 10 Over Sexual Misconduct
Senior journalist Ari Shavit resigned from both Haaretz newspaper and Channel 10 TV on Sunday as a second woman came forward to accuse him of sexual harassment. Shavit’s latest accuser is a former J Street staffer who accused him of harassment during an encounter in April 2014. The Forward first published the allegation of the…
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News J Street Staffer Is Second Woman To Accuse Shavit of Sexual Misconduct
It should have been a simple errand. The 26-year-old female J Street staff member was tasked with picking up Israeli author Ari Shavit at the Baltimore train station and driving him to speak at a J Street event at Johns Hopkins University to promote his bestselling book “My Promised Land.” But the encounter that April…
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News Since Alleged 2014 Sexual Misconduct With Staffer, J Street Has Not Invited Shavit To Speak
The liberal Israel lobby group J Street has not allowed the Israeli journalist Ari Shavit to speak at its events since 2014, after the prominent writer was accused of sexual misconduct by a J Street staffer at a conference for college students, the Forward has learned. The revelation comes days after Shavit identified himself as…
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Community Want to Prevent BDS? Speak Out Against the Destruction of Susya.
Last November, I was one of 100 J Street U students from across New England who attended a meeting at Harvard Hillel with Barry Shrage. Shrage is the President of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies (the Boston area’s Jewish Federation) as is seen as an important and respected figure in the Boston Jewish community. We discussed…
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