National Council of Young Israel
“We’ve never had any formal arrangement or ties with groups like CSS. This is the first time we are entering into this type of arrangement,” said Rabbi David Warshaw, president of NCYI, a network of 100 Orthodox synagogues across the United States.
“We will continue to speak out on Israel, but [our] purpose is not to be an advocacy organization,” said new board president David Warshaw.
They sat on two Jewish communal boards and were given the 2019 Chovevei Zion (“Lovers of Zion”) Award from NCYI.
The split in the right-wing bloc prior to April’s elections contributed to the coalition failure, as Ayelet Shaked’s newly formed New Right Party failed to cross the electoral threshold, gifting several Knesset mandates to Israel’s left.
There for the first time, Nicholas (Nick) Langworthy said it’s important for the American people to stand with Israel because of similar value systems within both nations.
The Young Israel of Toco Hills announced that its name will now be Kehillat Ohr Hatorah, Hebrew for “Light of the Torah,” after 93 percent of voting synagogue members voted to separate from Young Israel.
“How can [J Street] continue billing itself as a pro-Israel organization when it is backing a congressional candidate who has pledged to vote against U.S. military aid to Israel when she gets to Congress?” the National Council of Young Israel questioned in a statement.
“Honoring the memory of terrorists who seek to destroy Israel, which is the United States’ sole democratic ally in the Middle East, is reprehensible, and smacks of anti-Israel animus and anti-Semitism,” said Farley Weiss, president of the National Council of Young Israel.
