The leader of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, a centrist Jewish establishment group, warned over the weekend that the deal Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu brokered that will likely bring extremist followers of Rabbi Meir Kahane into the Israeli Knesset could hurt Israel’s image abroad. Malcolm Hoenlein, longtime executive vice president…
NEW YORK (JTA) — Malcolm Hoenlein, who is the professional head of one of American Jewry’s most influential organizations and who sits on the board of a large Israeli energy company, told JTA he sees no conflict between those roles. Hoenlein is executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,…
Two of America’s largest Jewish organizations are raising concerns about Malcolm Hoenlein’s leadership of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in the wake of a Forward report about his undisclosed role on the board of an Israeli gas firm. Hoenlein is the powerful leader of the Presidents Conference, a coalition of American…
Less than two weeks before the Israeli energy giant Delek Drilling announced a $15 billion deal to pump natural gas to Egypt, one of its board members, Malcolm Hoenlein, told a newspaper that the United States should be “standing up for” Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, despite his troubling human rights record. “You can criticize…
The announcement Tuesday that Malcolm Hoenlein was preparing to step down after three decades in one of the most powerful positions in the organized Jewish community took the leaders of his own organization by surprise. In an internal memo, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations told its members that the organization was…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, is stepping aside after more than three decades of helming the umbrella foreign policy group for the U.S. Jewish community. He will remain with the conference in an as yet undetermined capacity. An email Monday from…
Some of America’s most influential Jewish organizations apparently have no problem with a letter sent in their name seeking leniency for convicted felon Sheldon Silver, the former New York State Assembly speaker awaiting sentencing on corruption charges. Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, used Conference…
Jewish leaders are standing by their old friend, disgraced former New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, even after his conviction on charges of fraud and extortion. Silver was an important and powerful benefactor for the organized Jewish community during his decades in power in Albany, and now prominent Jewish communal leaders are pleading for…
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