On April 30, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations will vote on J Street’s application for admission. It will be a significant moment not just for the left-leaning lobby, but also for the Jewish establishment as a whole, which will have to provide a verdict on whether the communal tent should include…
The leader of Reform Jewry has backed J Street’s effort to join the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, says the mission of the Presidents Conference, the communal foreign policy umbrella body, would be compromised if it rejected the application of the…
(JTA) — J Street has the backing of the major Jewish domestic policy umbrella organization in its bid to join the major foreign policy umbrella organization. The ballot next week of the 50 or so constituent groups of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is secret, but the Jewish Council for Public…
J Street, the dovish Israel lobby, has failed to win the endorsement of a crucial committee for membership in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations — a development that makes it unlikely to win admission to the key umbrella group. In an April 11 meeting described as a “grilling” by participants, members…
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