Conference of Presidents
“The city with the United States’ largest Jewish population will now be led by a man whose record and rhetoric reflect hostility toward Israel and the Jewish people,” read the statement.
Forty-nine of the 50 member organizations of the Conference of Presidents released a “unity statement” after Israel liberated the living hostages.
“If Hamas rejects the plan, Israel will act decisively with the full backing of the United States,” read the statement.
“Israel cannot agree to this,” the Jewish state’s foreign minister told leaders who are part of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
“This is the moral clarity the world needs,” read a statement from Betsy Korn and William Daroff, chair and CEO, respectively, of the American Jewish organization.
Speaking at the CUFI summit in Washington, Malcolm Hoenlein said common enemies “go after Jews today, Christians tomorrow, others after that.”
“We need the help of the government to take the lead on their responsibility to protect people in their houses of worship,” Eric Fingerhut, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation, told JNS.
“American Jews are not bystanders to global terror and domestic extremism. We are deliberate targets,” said William Daroff, CEO of the Presidents Conference.
The Iranian American Jewish Federation “has long stood at the heart of Iranian Jewish life in America,” the umbrella group’s chair stated.
“Eighteen months later, the trauma of that day remains seared into the Jewish soul,” the organization stated.
“This momentous achievement recognizes the critical role of Israeli-Americans in shaping these decisions,” stated Elan Carr.
“You see this energy from people who have potentially lost everything but are moving forward,” said Deborah Lust Zaluda in an extensive interview in Israel.
