Jewish Organizations
“We appreciate his support for Israel during his service, and we only wish him the best,” said president of the National Council of Young Israel Farley Weiss • J Street spokesperson Logan Bayroff told JNS: “He will not be missed.”
It has established a Facebook group, launched a petition for Californians to express their opposition and offered a public comment template that streamlines the process for community members to voice their concerns to the Instructional Quality Commission.
“There is a long tradition of members of Congress saying dumb things; nevertheless, this comment belongs in the Hall of Fame. It’s not anti-Semitic. It’s too sloppy for that,” historian Gil Troy told JNS.
This latest act of terror came six months to the day when 11 people were killed at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh, the deadliest attack in U.S. Jewish history.
The signees were the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Union for Reform Judaism, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, MERCAZ, the Rabbinical Assembly, the ADL, Ameinu, the National Council of Jewish Women and the Israel Policy Forum.
The American Jewish community on both sides of the political coin reacts to the victory of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud in Israel’s national elections on April 9.
Ongoing debate reflects the differing opinions and political views of the changing nature of the America Jewish community.
A conference call among leaders included the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Democratic Council of America, Americans for Peace Now, the refugee resettlement organization HIAS and Bend the Arc.
New York just enacted a law that allows abortions to be performed by non-doctors until the point of birth, while Virginia Democratic lawmakers proposed a bill that would relax restrictions on abortion during the third trimester.
“This is an issue that could have a serious impact on almost every charitable institution in the Jewish community—our shuls, our schools and every kind of institution that we have—and cost them thousands of dollars a year,” Nathan Diament, executive director of the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center, told “Jewish Insider.”
In July 2017, after McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote: “Godspeed, @SenJohnMcCain. A hero. A fighter. A friend. Israel is with you.”
They fall along predictable lines, owing to which side of the spectrum the groups tend to favor.
