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Jewish Groups File Brief With Supreme Court Against Trump Travel Ban
The ADL, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, three Reform groups and T’ruah filed the brief.
EXCLUSIVE: Orthodox Demand Softening Of Transgender Rights Policy
“We reserve the right to veto any resolution that we feel violates our conscience. We last did so in 1988. We prefer to achieve consensus.”
Jewish Groups Call For Tougher Gun Control Laws After Las Vegas Attack
The director of the Anti-Defamation League called for “tough, effective gun violence prevention measures.”
EXCLUSIVE: Jewish Umbrella Group Kept Quiet On Bannon To Avoid Offending Donors
Jewish groups did not call on President Trump to fire Steve Bannon, because leaders worried that it would dampen fundraising efforts.
Jewish Leaders Face Quandary In Age Of Trump — Seek Access Or Resist?
WASHINGTON – The Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the umbrella body for the community’s policy groups, and J Street, the liberal Middle East peace lobby, held conferences this weekend about seven blocks apart. Downtown D.C. is pleasantly people-free on weekends, and the weather, weirdly unseasonable, was mild, so traipsing back and forth wasn’t a…
Trump Is Elephant In Every Room As Shellshocked Jews Seek Path Forward
The reality is that we don’t know what to do about Trump, which only adds to our shock.
J Street and JCPA Grapple With Jewish Advocacy Under Trump
WASHINGTON — J Street, the liberal Middle East policy group, and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs launched annual conferences in Washington that each focused on challenges to Jewish activism during the Trump administration. J Street’s adversarial relationship to the new administration was explicit in its programming, while the JCPA, the public policy umbrella…
David Bernstein, New Head of JCPA, Vows Inclusive Fight Against BDS
David Bernstein, a veteran Israel advocate, will replace Rabbi Steve Gutow as president of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the group announced Monday.
Jewish Umbrella Group Calls Armenian Killings 'Genocide' for First Time
The Jewish public policy umbrella called on the U.S. government to recognize the World War I-era Turkish massacres of Armenians as a genocide, a reversal of years of the Jewish community treading delicately around the issue.
Steve Gutow Lashes Out at Community at End of Decade Pleading for Civility
For the past 10 years, Rabbi Steve Gutow has been trying to get American Jews to be more civil to each other, especially in debates about political issues.