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Breaking News Joe Biden Will Speak at J Street as Speculation on New Peace Push Grows
Vice President Joe Biden will address J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group. The April 18 event comes a month after Biden, the Obama administration senior figure closest to the pro-Israel community, addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a center-right group often at odds with J Street. It also comes as speculation…
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Breaking News New New York Envoy Dani Dayan Walks Back J Street Comments
JERUSALEM — Dani Dayan, Israel’s newly named consul general to New York, walked back comments he made about the liberal pro-Israel group J Street in a series of tweets. “Contrary to the headlines, I never called “unJewish” but only a specific action it took. Nevertheless it was wrong,” Dayan said Thursday in a tweet. Dayan,…
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Breaking News J Street Slams Dani Dayan For Calling Group ‘Anti-Jewish’
(JTA) — J Street slammed Israel’s newly named consul general to New York, former settler leader Dani Dayan, for describing the liberal pro-Israel group as “anti-Israel” and “un-Jewish.” Dayan, who was named to the post on Monday in a brief statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, made the remarks during an interview that aired Sunday…
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Opinion Did Obama Just Make It Kosher To Boycott Settlements?
Last week, President Obama made the strongest statement to date that settlement boycotts are a legitimate tactic for liberal pro-Israel groups and activists to use. Although he certainly did not phrase it that way, his language suggests that a position considered beyond the pale when Peter Beinart advocated it just a few years ago —…
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Breaking News J Street Takes Aim at GOP Senators Who Opposed Iran Deal
A focus of liberal Jewish advocacy group J Street this year will be unseating Republican senators in Illinois and Wisconsin who led opposition to the Iran nuclear deal. “We see Mark Kirk and Ron Johnson as two of our biggest targets,” Ben Shnider, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group’s political director told JTA Friday…
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Breaking News Vassar OK’s Funds for J Street Group After Delay
Vassar College’s student council approved a funding request from J Street U, a liberal pro-Israel group, after delaying it because of concerns that it would be supporting a racist ideology. The student council unanimously approved the request on Sunday. The funds allowed students to attend HaaretzQ — a conference focused on Israeli-Palestinian relations and hosted…
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Opinion Why Are You So Confused by J Street’s Muslim Zionist?
I’ve been watching out for articles about Amna Farooqi, the new Muslim-American President of J Street U, since she was elected last month. There’s more than a little bit of kvelling in that for me, since I taught the first two Israel Studies courses she took at the University of Maryland when she was a…
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Opinion Has the American Jewish Left Lost All Sense of Boundaries?
Helped by Michael Douglas and J Street, I have recently become increasingly painfully aware, in the most personal and intense way, of the growing rift between traditional Judaism and everything else that calls itself Jewish. Mind you, I’ve been a Jewish journalist for more than 40 years and I’ve associated professionally and spiritually with almost…
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