Jewish Organizations
The nonprofit’s CEO intends to step down on June 30, 2026. “It will be impossible to fill his shoes,” a former B’nai B’rith International president stated.
The mayoral frontrunner prioritizes “anti-Zionist synagogues and groups” at the expense of “perspectives and concerns of the vast majority of Jewish New Yorkers,” per the AJC.
Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, tells JNS what it was like to be in the Knesset as hostages were reunited with their families ahead of the U.S. president’s speech.
Forty-nine of the 50 member organizations of the Conference of Presidents released a “unity statement” after Israel liberated the living hostages.
“As we welcome this moment of light after so much darkness, we remain deeply concerned about Hamas’s commitment to abide by the full terms of a peace agreement,” the leaders of B’nai B’rith said.
“The future of our yeshivahs, our shuls and the well-being of our neighborhoods will all be directly affected by its outcome,” wrote Avi Greenstein, Boro Park Jewish Community Council CEO.
“If Hamas rejects the plan, Israel will act decisively with the full backing of the United States,” read the statement.
“Wikipedia continues to be a bigoted anti-Israel, anti-Jewish outlet and a thoroughly unreliable source,” Morton Klein, of the ZOA, told JNS.
“We need to be on a war footing to respond to the domestic terror threats that our faith communities are experiencing,” said Eric Fingerhut, head of the Jewish Federations of North America.
The U.S. Justice Department said these acts of vandalism were due to “growing animosity towards Israel” since Oct. 7, 2023.
Jewish Democratic Council of America called him a “staunch ally,” while Republican Jewish Coalition said not to let the door hit him on the way out.
It is essential to confirm nominees for the U.S. antisemitism special envoy and the envoy for religious freedom, 15 Jewish groups wrote.
