The election allows any Jew around the world who agrees to Zionist principles to vote for body with influence over Israeli immigration, and land use, and religious freedom
A body tasked with administering an election in which only Jews are allowed to vote felt compelled this year to clarify what it means by ‘Jew’
A crisis that threatened to drive a deep wedge between Israel and the Diaspora Jewish communities was averted on Thursday evening, after a compromise was reached allowing the non-Orthodox movements and center-left parties to retain some influence in the key Zionist institutions. This agreement over the allocation of senior positions in the World Zionist Organization…
Representatives of Reform Jewish communities across North America warned Thursday that the implementation of an agreement that would effectively strip the progressive Zionist movements and parties of influence in key institutions would have dire consequences for Israel’s relations with the Diaspora. Agreements on the divvying up of positions and departments in the Zionist institutions have…
Faced with opposition from key Jewish organizations in the Diaspora, leaders of the World Zionist Congress resolved on Tuesday to postpone a vote on a controversial agreement that would effectively have handed over control of key institutions to right-wing and rigidly Orthodox parties. The vote on the so-called “coalition agreement” was scheduled for Tuesday, the…
The non-Orthodox Jewish movements are teaming up with the center-left parties in Israel in a last-ditch effort to prevent the takeover of key international Zionist institutions by right-wing and rigidly Orthodox political parties. On Tuesday, the World Zionist Congress will be asked to approve an agreement that would effectively hand over control of key positions…
After two months of voting and an unprecedented surge in participation, Orthodox and right-wing groups dramatically increased their share of American delegates to the World Zionist Congress, according to the results released Monday. More than a third of delegates will belong to the Orthodox Israel Coalition and Eretz Hakodesh, groups that will push the Congress…
The Forward invited the 15 parties contending for the World Zionist Congress elections, which end March 11, to write an article about why readers should support them. Nine responded by our deadline (we’ll happily publish the others; contact [email protected]). The parties are presented in alphabetical order. The American delegates to the Congress help allocate nearly…
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