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The Republican Jewish Coalition, which seeks “to foster and enhance ties between the American Jewish community and Republican decision makers,” made the demand. “We work to sensitize Republican leadership in government and the Party to the concerns and issues of the Jewish community, while ...
... both Yitzchak Yosef—Israel's Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel—and the subsequent response from the American Jewish community proved as true. Delivering a sermon discussing a tractate in Berachot 58, the good rabbi not only referred to African descended peoples by the pejorative of “kushi”—roughly ...

There is a great crisis currently occurring in the American-Jewish community — a crisis of identity. What are Jews here to accomplish? Are Jews special? Or are Jews just a group of socially active members of the political left, with no specific religious inclination or mission beyond mirroring the priorities of ...
The Republican Jewish Coalition, which seeks “to foster and enhance ties between the American Jewish community and Republican decision makers,” made the demand. “We work to sensitize Republican leadership in government and the Party to the concerns and issues of the Jewish community, while ...
I don't know precisely what American-Jewish community Weisman is describing, but his generalizations bear little resemblance to the one I've been reporting on. It is certainly true that anti-Semitism has surged during the rise of Donald Trump. But the American Jews I've watched have been anything but ...

Sandberg was the founding director of the AJC Pacific Rim Institute (APRI) in 1989, which later was renamed the Asia Pacific Institute (API), the first of its kind in the American Jewish community. Over the past 30 years, AJC leaders have traveled regularly with API to China, Japan, South Korea, and other ...
Hoenlein did not speak to the newspaper as a Delek Drilling board member. Instead, he spoke in his more familiar role: as the prominent leader of one of the American Jewish community's most powerful foreign and domestic policy advocacy groups. As the head of the not-for-profit Conference of Presidents ...

This reception stood in stark contrast to the warnings just months ago by virtually the entire senior leadership of the American Jewish community, after the Netanyahu government promoted a string of decisions that deepened discrimination against non-Orthodox Jews in Israel. The most memorable was the ...
Students are inspired to live outside their books, encounter new ideas and challenge themselves to find their own link within the chain of Jewish continuity. AMHSI-JNF is an important contributor to the leadership and educational fabric of the North American Jewish community and boasts more than 22,000 ...
Liberal Jews, who make up the majority of the American Jewish community, bristle at the evangelicals' ties to the political right and their support for Israel's settlement enterprise in the West Bank, a major sticking point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of J Street, a liberal pro-Israel ...
AIPAC also has always claimed to speak for the American Jewish community on matters relating to Israel. But can the center hold when its delegates are so deeply divided — sometimes against themselves? “It's a real delicate balance,” said Neal Sher, who helmed AIPAC as executive director for a period ...
Israel's plan to deport thousands of African asylum seekers could cost it critical support in the American-Jewish community, a leading advocate for refugee rights has warned, adding that African-American House members are also poised to register their protest at the government's policy. “In the eyes of the ...
"The Pittsburgh Jewish community is even more highly educated than the American Jewish community as a whole," Boxer said. "Where you have good jobs, and where you need highly educated people to fill them, that's where the Jewish community tends to grow." Though many reported wealth, Boxer said ...
Andrew Kleinerman says he and his wife Amy share a “West Coast brand of Judaism.” The Kleinermans live in San Francisco, attend services about once a month and have traveled to Israel. Andrew is Jewish, Amy is not. Amy, who is Chinese-American, is thinking about converting to Judaism. One of the ...
The unity of the American Jewish community and its relationship with Israel was on display Monday evening when Vice President Mike Pence addressed the AIPAC Policy Conference at the Washington Convention Center before 18,000 delegates. This is despite the fact that Pence, and especially his boss, ...


 

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