Jewish Organizations
Joining them were representatives of major American Jewish organizations to help determine how to increase security on campus.
“It feels painfully as though Jewish lives are being valued less by many in America and by too many in the international community,” said Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee.
Molly Carr, CEO of Jewish Family Services of Western New York, said that with the new funding, “we can better guide refugees on their path towards achieving financial and personal stability.”
“Fundamentally, Wikipedia is stripping the Jewish community of the right to defend itself from the hatred that targets our community,” the groups wrote.
The Jewish organization denounced the move as one aiming to delegitimize it, saying, “apparently, facts no longer matter.”
“We urged leadership to weigh the weight of their words when addressing the war,” Nathan Diament, the Orthodox Union’s executive director for public policy, told JNS.
“We are in the fight of our lifetimes,” said Rabbi Noah Farkas, who leads the Jewish Federation Los Angeles. “It’s going to take all of us.”
The group also suggests that current chair Harriet P. Schleifer serve a second one-year term.
The country’s top law-enforcement agency explained its efforts to combat antisemitism and listened to concerns from communal leaders.
The ADL, StandWithUs, the Brandeis Center and the ZOA blasted the administration’s capitulation to anti-Israel student activists.
Howard Kohr is the sort of leader who “comes along every decade or so, and makes a major impact on Jewish life in their generation,” said Chabad Rabbi Levi Shemtov.
“TikTok has helped fuel a horrific spike in antisemitism that our communities are feeling every day,” said Eric Fingerhut, president and CEO of Jewish Federations of North America.
