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Rally Against Iran Becomes Political Firestorm

 FORWARD   By Marc PerelmanThursday September 18, 2008 A rally organized by the main Jewish umbrella organization to protest the scheduled visit of Iranian president Mahmoud ... › More Info

Followup on Agriprocessors

Jewish summer camps have returned shipments of expired meat, an Orthodox-led boycott is under way, contractors have pulled out and an increasing number of Jewish organizations are joining ... › More Info

A Commune Grows in Brooklyn

Israel's Urban Kibbutz Movement Has Arrived in New York. Will It Survive? Imagine, for instance, trying to explain to a banker at Bank of America that you want to open a joint checking ... › More Info

A Commune Grows in Brooklyn

Imagine, for instance, trying to explain to a banker at Bank of America that you want to open a joint checking account with five other people. This was the situation that Jamie Beran and ... › More Info

Ameinu LA Director Bea Chankin Weisberg Selected by Jewish Journal for Top 10 Mensches

Mensches: Our third annual salute to big-hearted Angelenos "It is hard to convey the special sense of respect, dignity and approbation that can be conveyed by calling someone 'a real ... › More Info

Jerusalem Report: Fringe Theater at Annapolis

Busloads of activists gather in the cold winter sunlight of late November outside the gateway to the Naval Academy in the sleepy town of Annapolis, Maryland, to spew vitriol, decry Israeli ... › More Info

Odd couple works to aid Israel's Bedouins

Amal Elsana Alh'jooj (left) and Vivian Silver are working to empower Bedouin women in the Negev.  [Photo courtesy Ameinu] When the two women travel overseas together, one passes ... › More Info

Jerusalem Post: The 'Daily Gevalt' ("The Narrowing of the Jewish Mind")

Like many Jews with an e-mail account and a keen interest in Israel, I receive the "Daily Alert" on the Middle East. The alert, a compendium of Mideast news and opinion, is "prepared for ... › More Info

JTA: Supporters, opponents stage rallies at Annapolis conference

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (JTA) -- The streets of Annapolis were ringing with the sound of Hebrew folk songs as Jewish organizations of many stripes held rallies either in support of or opposition to the ... › More Info

Forward: On Summit Sidelines, Jewish Groups Square Off

...Jewish activists took to the streets here Tuesday to express their views on the Middle East peace conference that was taking place at the United States Naval Academy. An estimated 100 ... › More Info

JTA: Orthodox criticism of Olmert foreshadows Jewish showdown

Communal insiders say the front line is now the Conference of Presidents. In addition to pushing for a statement on Jerusalem, opponents of Israeli concessions to Abbas also are lobbying ... › More Info

CBS TV Broadcast of Annapolis Peace Rally

New York's CBS TV sent a camera crew to interview New York rally-goers as they departed on the bus from in front of Beit Shalom at 7:30 am, and again in Annapolis itself.   CBS erred in ... › More Info

Ha'aretz: Dovish U.S. Jewish groups plan pro-Annapolis rally on Tuesday

A coalition of dovish American Jewish organizations are to hold a rally for Israeli-Palestinian Peace to coincide with the Annapolis Middle East peace conference on Tuesday. The rally, ... › More Info

International Herald Tribune: Peace conference security could cramp Annapolis' style

Wednesday, November 21, 2007  ANNAPOLIS, Maryland: People planning a brisk autumn run or walk at the U.S. Naval Academy face a possible detour past shouting anti-Palestinian ... › More Info

Jerusalem Post: Genocide, Morality and American Jews

  Published as "Don't Alienate Ankara" The Jerusalem Post, Oct. 29, 2007 (Unedited version) Under pressure from the Bush Administration and Turkey, a key US NATO ally, ... › More Info

JTA: Ban on Leasing Land to Arabs Slammed

NEW YORK (JTA) -- A proposed Israeli law that would uphold the government's refusal to lease land to Israeli Arabs has generated broad opposition among American Jews concerned about the ... › More Info

Jerusalem Post: US Jewish groups lobby against JNF bill

The Reform Movement and other liberal Jewish groups are urging the Knesset not to move forward with legislation that would prohibit Arab Israelis from leasing land owned by the Jewish National Fund. ... › More Info

Guardian: The 'right' to discriminate

A fixture in the lives of all children who have ever attended Hebrew school is the blue Jewish National Fund (JNF) pushke (or charity box), into which parents and teachers encouraged us to throw our ... › More Info

JTA: Some Jews oppose land bill

Some U.S. Jewish groups are protesting a Knesset bill that would permit the Israel Lands Authority to uphold a policy that favors Jewish landowners in Israel. Ameinu, the American affiliate of the ... › More Info

Forward: Reform Slams Knesset Plan for JNF Land

Some U.S. Jewish groups are protesting a Knesset bill that would permit the Israel Lands Authority to uphold a policy that favors Jewish landowners in Israel. Ameinu, the American affiliate of the ... › More Info

Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston): Progressive Zionist. Simply a term for a Jewish traitor says the Right. An oxymoron says the Left.

Including Everybody In the Family Conversation Progressive Zionist. Simply a term for a Jewish traitor says the Right. An oxymoron says the Left, since Israel is an apartheid state engaged in ethnic ... › More Info

Give them the Temple Mount

  GIVE THEM THE TEMPLE MOUNT By Akiva EldarHaaretz (Israel) August 20, 2007 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/895161.html   The good news is that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ... › More Info

The Forward: Amid Rockets and Civil War in Gaza, Israelis Sour on Peace Prospects

Amman, Jordan - Israeli leaders are now scrambling for a strategy to deal with the potential civil war erupting in the Palestinian territories and Hamas rocket attacks on the southern town of Sderot. ... › More Info

The Forward: Liberal Mideast Newsletter to Launch

Washington - A prominent liberal think tank is launching a new e-mail newsletter following claims that the main daily digest put out by the Jewish community advances a right-wing agenda. The Center ... › More Info

From Ha'aretz: When an 'ecological' community is not

The Israeli environmental movement has undergone a constructive transition over its 50-year history. With its roots in campaigns that focused on nature preservation, it has matured into a broad-based ... › More Info

JTA: Liberal Zionists denounce AIPAC

A liberal Zionist group denounced the America Israel Public Affairs Committee for adopting "radical hawkish positions" at the powerful lobby’s annual policy conference. In a statement Wednesday, ... › More Info

The Forward: Aipac Conference: Pastor Hailed, Bibi Dissed, Pollard Rejected, While Politicians Preen

Washington - Perhaps the most enthusiastically received speaker at this year’s annual Aipac conference was the fiery evangelical leader Pastor John Hagee. During his speech Sunday night to the 6,000 ... › More Info

Leaders Did Not Applaud ZOA's Criticism of Abbas

A February 16 article reports on a meeting between Richard Jones, America's ambassador to Israel, and participants in a recent Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations mission ... › More Info

From the Forward | Can Campus Coalition Unite for Israel?

I just think, says the hawk to the dove, that there should be limits regarding what kind of programming your organization can sponsor on a college campus if it is going to remain part of the Israel ... › More Info

From the Forward | Why Not Let Moderates Engage Far Left?

The mainstream machers of American Jewry correctly assert that some of the rhetorical excesses of Israel’s critics, particularly on the far left, can foster outright antisemitism. But when these ... › More Info

From New Voices | Zionist Organization of America Mounts Campaign Against Progressive Student Group Open Debate and Dialogue are at Stake

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) president Morton Klein recently waged a bitter campaign against the Union of Progressive Zionists (UPZ) following the Breaking the Silence tour across American ... › More Info

Response to the New Jersey Jewish News Editorial

Letter to the Editor We too noticed that Alvin Rosenfeld's paper (Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism) glossed over the good work being done by progressive Zionist organizations to ... › More Info

From the NJ Jewish News | The AJC and the Left: a work in progress

Here’s what the average reader might learn after reading “‘Progressive’ Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism,” the much-talked-about paper written by Indiana University professor Alvin Rosenfeld ... › More Info

From Newzionist.com | Don’t conflate Anti-Zionist with Progressive Zionism

Lately, there have been a spate of articles that discuss how “liberals” and “progressives” criticize Israel and are being silenced by the “mainstream” Jewish community or are endangering Jews ... › More Info

From the Forward | Left-wing Critics of Israel Launch Blog To Combat Alleged Intimidation

In the wake of an increasing flurry of attacks leveled against left-wing Jewish groups by their right-wing counterparts, one dovish group is fighting back. Jewish Voice for Peace, a San ... › More Info

From the Forward | Left-wing Critics of Israel Launch Blog To Combat Alleged Intimidation

In the wake of an increasing flurry of attacks leveled against left-wing Jewish groups by their right-wing counterparts, one dovish group is fighting back. Jewish Voice for Peace, a San ... › More Info

From the Forward | Groups Flip Flop as Controversy Over Liberal Zionists Continues

The imbroglio surrounding a pro-Israel campus coalition and one of its member organizations, a left-wing student group accused of bringing Israel bashers to campuses, continued to deepen this past ... › More Info

From the Forward | Some Good News, Courtesy of the Young

Go tell it on the mountain: There’s good news this otherwise dismal winter. As Israel’s foreign minister (and deputy prime minister), Tzipi Livni, said at the biannual World Economic Forum in Davos, ... › More Info

From the JPOST | View from America: Who speaks for the Zionists?

It was one of those American Jewish dust-ups that play out along predictable lines and conclude with a predictable outcome. The Left outrages the Right, and the Right responds in knee-jerk fashion by ... › More Info

From the JTA | Group that criticized Israel to stay in campus coalition despite protests

NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (JTA) — The Israel on Campus Coalition will not kick out the Union of Progressive Zionists for sponsoring a program that accuses the Israeli army of human-rights abuses. In a ... › More Info

From the Forward | Campus Coalition Split Over Progressive Union

As members of a coalition of pro-Israel organizations debate whether to oust a dovish Zionist student group accused of bringing Israel-bashers to American campuses, at least one national Jewish ... › More Info

From The New Jersey Jewish News | Taking sides

You know the classic definition of chutzpa: A man who murders his mother and father begs for mercy because he is an orphan. Here’s a 21st-century version: A Jewish activist who has spent the past ... › More Info

From The New Jersey Jewish News | Jewish, Palestinian groups sponsor IDF soldier critical of Israel

In what was said to be an unprecedented move, Jewish and Palestinian advocacy groups on the Princeton University campus joined hands on Nov. 19 to host an Israeli soldier critical of his government’s ... › More Info

What Israel Can Do for America

From the Huffington Post Too many Israeli and American Jewish leaders have a problem with the L-word, "linkage." They reflexively denounce any suggestion that progress toward Arab-Israeli peace will ... › More Info

Breaking the Silence or Stifling Dissent?

An embarrassing spat is currently taking place in the American Zionist movement. The Union of Progressive Zionists – broadly similar in politics to Meretz – recently organised a North American tour ... › More Info

From Jerusalem Report | What Israel can do for America

Too many Israeli and American Jewish leaders have a problem with the L-word, “linkage.” They reflexively denounce any suggestion that progress toward Arab-Israeli peace will help America solve its ... › More Info

From Jewschool.com | ZOA Goes Gunning for UPZ

Morton Klein has made a career for himself by virulently attacking criticism of Israel on the Left. Yet as director of the Zionist Organization of America, Klein has himself become one of the most ... › More Info

From the Forward | Drawing Red Lines

Even as college students enjoy their winter break, a nasty feud has erupted over Israel activism on campus. As the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports on Page 6, the right-wing Zionist Organization of ... › More Info

From the JTA | Is tough love for Israel still love?

NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (JTA) — The Zionist Organization of America is spearheading an effort to have a left-wing group expelled from a pro-Israel consortium for its sponsorship of a program that brings ... › More Info

From the Jerusalem Post | Peace Now in US pens anti-Lieberman letter

Avigdor Lieberman left on Thursday for his first US visit since becoming deputy prime minister and Americans for Peace Now is sounding an alarm. It is urging other Jewish organizations to express ... › More Info

From the New York Observer | Hillel Chapters Break New Ground by Hosting 'Breaking the Silence'

There's been an important, wonderful development on the Israel/Palestine front that typically has gotten no attention: Hillel societies at American universities have helped sponsor the tour of the ... › More Info

From the Chicago Jewish News | In a new book, a Chicago professor of physics explains the formula for being funny Jewishly

After smashing the first set of tablets, Moses returns with the second set. "I have good news and bad news," he announces to the assembled Israelites. "The good news is: I got him down to only ... › More Info

From Reform Judaism | Conspiracy?

Was defending Israel the motivating factor behind the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq? Just before the Mourner's Kaddish is recited during Shabbat services at my synagogue, the rabbi intones the names ... › More Info

From the Forward | What are You Waiting For?

Click here to see the ad published in the forward by Ameinu and Meretz USA. To contribute to this campaign click here . ... › More Info

US group seeks to get young Jewish activists involved in Israel

NEW YORK - The largest annual gathering of Jewish leaders, the UJC's General Assembly, is meeting in Los Angeles this week, in large part, to discuss the relationship between American Jews and ... › More Info

From the Forward | Time Keeps on Ticking

This is a story about a broken old Yiddish clock that managed to turn back time. For decades, the clock had adorned my grandparents’ various apartments in New York City’s Washington Heights section ... › More Info

Pat Robertson is once again spreading the word... for the Tourism Ministry, wooing Christians to Israel

NEW YORK - "Israel - to walk where Jesus walked, to pray where Jesus prayed, to stand where he stood there is no other place like it on earth," says Pat Robertson, American televangelist and former ... › More Info

From the Philadelphia Jewish Voice | Philadelphia Advocacy and Information Organization Founded

The newest organization on the Philadelphia / South Jersey Jewish scene is also one of the oldest. Ameinu (which means "our people" in Hebrew) was established in 2004 as the successor organization to ... › More Info

From the LA Jewish Journal | Europe Displaying Disproportionate Pacifism

One casualty of the current crisis is the myth that if Israel were to be attacked from territory it does not occupy, the world would support its response. "The world" mostly meant the United States ... › More Info

Groups Rally to Raise Funds for Israel During Crisis

Jewish organizations throughout the Los Angeles area, as well as supportive Christian groups, are shifting their fundraising efforts into high gear to succor civilians and soldiers in embattled ... › More Info

Letter to the Editor | Birthright Views

I agree with Ari L. Goldman (“The Birthright Paradox,” Opinion, June 23) that there is something magical about that first visit to Israel. I also appreciate the observation that perhaps there is a ... › More Info

From the Detroit Jewish News | Letter to the Editor

*Israeli-Hizbollah War* To the Editor, On July 13, in an unprovoked act of war, Hezbollah terrorists crossed the internationally recognized border from Lebanon and attacked Israel, murdering ... › More Info

From the Detroit Jewish News | Letter to the Editor

*Israeli-Hizbollah War* To the Editor, On July 13, in an unprovoked act of war, Hezbollah terrorists crossed the internationally recognized border from Lebanon and attacked Israel, murdering ... › More Info

From Jerusalem Post | The Value of Holocaust Memoirs

I have just finished reading yet another diatribe by a post-Zionist Israeli academic promoting the theme that the Holocaust was exploited by Zionists to create a Jewish state at the expense of the ... › More Info

From the Forward | Letter to the Editor: WZO Is Reorganizing

I recently returned form serving as a delegate to the World Zionist Congress, and wonder whether Hebrew University professor Gabriel Sheffer was actually at the event when he commented that “young ... › More Info

From the Washington Jewish Week | Area Jews flag 'renewal' at World Zionist Congress

Renewal took center stage at last week's World Zionist Congress, say local Jews who took part in the four-day gathering, which drew some 2,000 people to Jerusalem from around the world. WZC is ... › More Info

From Philadelphia Jewish Voice | Common Ground

Ameinu head meets Israeli Prime Minister. A group of forty American Jewish leaders met this week with Prime Minister Olmert at the Blair House immediately following his address to a joint meeting ... › More Info

From Haaretz | Zionist Congress gets down to the nitty-gritty

The 35th Zionist Congress, which convened Monday night in Jerusalem, devoted the morning yesterday to the nitty-gritty of committee work, discussing more than 100 resolutions aimed at revitalizing ... › More Info

From Haaretz | Mom and apple pie in the territories

After a morning of committee work, delegates to the 35th Zionist Congress yesterday boarded buses for a range of field trips, including a tour entitled "New Trends and Zionist Challenges in ... › More Info

‘If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem’

I hate to disagree publicly with my good friend, Rabbi David Lincoln, the senior rabbi of my synagogue, but the observations he expressed in these pages regarding Jerusalem must not be left in a ... › More Info

From the NJ Jewish News | Forward publisher urges Israel to seek partners among Palestinians

Israel and the Palestinians “are playing a game of chicken,” says Sam Norich, the executive director of The Forward Association, the publisher of the English and Yiddish editions of The Forward. A ... › More Info

From the Jewish Journal of Greater LA | The View From L.A.: Hoping for the Best

Los Angeles supporters of Israel’s political parties praised or mourned the results of the Knesset election, but even the winners weren’t entirely in a mood to celebrate. Shimon Erem, a former ... › More Info

From the Jerusalem Post | Leftist US Jews: Elections results vindicate Mitzna

Hope might be too strong a word to describe the sentiment Tuesday evening at the New York headquarters of the New Israel Fund, an organization that supports social justice and coexistence programs in ... › More Info

From the Forward | My Dinner With AIPAC

I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard supporters of Israel’s peace camp in Washington grumble about Steven Rosen during the past two decades. One of two ex-staffers of the American Israel ... › More Info

From the JTA | American donors to Israeli parties draw back with Sharon out of picture

WASHINGTON, March 14 (JTA) — American Jewish involvement in Israeli elections is at an ebb, with the shadow of two Sharons — father Ariel and son Omri — hanging heavy over once-eager fund-raisers. ... › More Info

From the Philadelphia Jewish Voice | Back to the Future with Hamas

Even with Hamas's victory, there may yet be a chance for peace.. The election victory of Hamas and the resulting feeling of hopelessness regarding the prospects for a peace agreement between Israel ... › More Info

From the Forward | Bernie Weisberg, Labor Zionist

Bernie Weisberg, former national director of Young Judea and the Labor Zionist Alliance, died last Wednesday at the age of 82. Born in Maine, Weisberg attended Yeshiva University as an ... › More Info

From The New Jersey Jewish News | Jewish, Palestinian groups sponsor IDF soldier critical of Israel

In what was said to be an unprecedented move, Jewish and Palestinian advocacy groups on the Princeton University campus joined hands on Nov. 19 to host an Israeli soldier critical of his government’s ... › More Info

From Newsday | NY's Jews, Arabs split on Sharon

As he sped by cab from a prayer service in Manhattan Thursday for the recovery of Ariel Sharon, Rabbi Marc Schneier expressed anguish about the sudden incapacitation of the Israeli leader he called ... › More Info

From the Philadelphia Jewish Voice | Ameinu Condemns Green Party Statement

Ameinu condemns in the harshest terms the decision by the Green Party of the United States to pursue a policy of boycott and divestment from Israel. This recent announcement is merely the latest in ... › More Info

From Jewish Currents | How American Jews Can Aid the Peace Process

EVERY FOUR TO FIVE YEARS, the World Zionist Congress convenes to determine the policies of the World Zionist Organization. A new Congress is scheduled for Jerusalem this June, continuing the ... › More Info

From the Detroit Jewish News | Balancing the scales: Seeking recognition as a Reform rabbi in Israel, a former Detroiter petitions Israeli Supreme Court

In the 1970s as a young Congregation Shaarey Zedek member from Oak Park, Marilyn Gold was openly disheartened to discover that ? at that time ? only the Southfield synagogue?s men were permitted to ... › More Info

From the Forward | Zionist Election Has High Stakes, Strange Pairings

Although America's midterm congressional elections are a year away, balloting is underway right now for another congress with high stakes and some very strange political bedfellows. The election ... › More Info

From the New York Jewish Week| Clarifying ?Pro-Israel?

Gabrielle Birkner?s article ?Campus Doves Struggle To Soar? (Sept. 30) successfully placed the Union of Progressive Zionists in a bigger historical and political context. I attended the annual UPZ ... › More Info

From the New York Jewish Week | Campus Doves

They sat around a campfire, donning work shirts adorned with the Labor Zionist youth movement logo and T-shirts urging coexistence between Israelis and their Arab neighbors. When they weren?t singing ... › More Info

From the Chicago Jewish News | Labor of Love

Delegates from throughout the country came to the 16th Labor Zionist convention held Oct. 12-16, 1927 at the Labor Zionist Institute on Douglas Boulevard in Chicago. They pioneered the idea of ... › More Info

From the Forward | Roots of the Holocaust

Dr. Arnold Richards of New York has a question concerning a passage in the European-born, American Jewish psychiatrist A. A. Brill's "The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud" ? an anthology of Freud's ... › More Info

From the Philadelphia Jewish Voice | Journey to Gush Katif

Little suggested that only weeks remained for Ganei Tal, a religious moshav in southern Gaza. The lawns were watered and fresh flowers filled the gardens. The major clue that change was coming was ... › More Info

From the Intermountain Jewish News | Settlers Showed Disdain for the IDF

Throughout Israel?s history, the citizen-soldiers of the IDF have been called upon to defend the country?s borders, protect its people and serve the needs of the State. Last week, Israel called upon ... › More Info

From WNYC (public radio) | UPZ Interview with reporter Fred Mogul

Fred Mogul (WNYC): This week's withdrawal by Israel from the Gaza Strip is being followed closely by local residents with connections to the Middle East. Today a group of Jewish protestors who ... › More Info

From the Baltimore Sun | Area's Jewish community focuses on Gaza pullout

With the Israeli government preparing to evacuate Jewish settlers from Gaza next week, Ellen Kushner has been visiting the Western Wall. The Baltimore woman goes online to a live camera trained on ... › More Info

From the Jewish Journal | Pullout Seen Really as West Bank Issue

The Gaza withdrawal in itself plays only a small part in the current face-off between settlers and the Israeli government. Three other and more basic issues are at stake, and they go to the core of ... › More Info

From the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix | As disengagement approaches

Little suggests that only weeks remain for Ganei Tal, a religious moshav in southern Gaza. The lawns are watered, and fresh flowers fill the gardens. The major clue that change is coming is the ... › More Info

From Jewish Observer | JOURNEY TO GUSH KATIF

From http://www.jewishobserver-la.com Little suggests that [no time remains] for Ganei Tal, a religious moshav in southern Gaza. The lawns are watered and fresh flowers fill the gardens. The major ... › More Info

From the New Jersey Jewish News |Massive opposition to leaving Gaza is really about keeping West Bank

Little suggests that only weeks remain for Ganei Tal, a religious moshav in southern Gaza. The lawns are watered, and fresh flowers fill the gardens. The major clue that change is coming is the ... › More Info

From the Forward | Bucking Trend, Poll Finds Americans Against Pullout

A new poll touted by a leading anti-disengagement group found that the majority of Americans do not support Israel's Gaza withdrawal plan. But the figures fly in the face of other polls, which have ... › More Info

From the Forward | Sharanksy Rejected Before WZO Vote

July 1, 2005 An election for the next chairman of the World Zionist Organization appeared to come down, like so much else in Israel these days, to a fight over the Gaza disengagement plan. The race ... › More Info

From the JTA | Five years into the intifada, groups are refining their tactics on campus

NEW YORK, June 27 (JTA) - Nearly five years after the intifada exploded, American college campuses no longer see the frequent flare-ups that roiled campuses at the peak of Israeli-Palestinian ... › More Info

From the Jerusalem Report | Pullout debate buffets American Jews

The perennial debate about whether American Jews should criticize Israeli policy has been stirred up again by the Gaza disengagement plan. In late May, anti-disengagement protesters demonstrated ... › More Info

From Jewish Tribune | Cheers, Jeers for Gaza Pull-Out

By BEN HARRIS With the date for Israel's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip drawing closer, American Jews are raising their voices both for and against the policy of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, ... › More Info

From the New Jersey Jewish News | 'Coalition of the majority? must support disengagement

The last four years have been an extraordinarily difficult time for American Jews. We watched as Israeli men and women fell victim to senseless terrorist attacks and many more became accustomed to a ... › More Info

From the Jewish Standard | 'Coalition of the majority? must support disengagement

The last four years have been an extraordinarily difficult time for American Jews. We watched as Israeli men and women fell victim to senseless terrorist attacks and many more became accustomed to a ... › More Info

From the Jewish Week | Under Pressure, Presidents Conf.Plans N.Y. Rally

Amid continuing charges it has not done enough to explicitly support Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza disengagement plan, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations this ... › More Info

From Courant | Working Toward Peace By Sharing Stories

(The UPZ sponsored the following program) Aziz Abu Sarah will never forget the day Israeli soldiers came to his family's home in Jerusalem and took away his oldest brother Tayseer for "suspicion of ... › More Info

Voices for Peace Speaks Out About Conflict

Tuesday night, April 26, the student organization Voices for Peace hosted speakers eager to share their personal stories dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. About 40 students and members ... › More Info

From the Washington Jewish Week | Zionism, from the left New student group formed at U. of Maryland

There were other pro-Israel groups at the University of Maryland, but sophomore Ben Meiselman did not think they represented his point of view. So he and a friend started a new one. The result is a ... › More Info

From Washington Jewish News | Polls: U.S. Jews back Sharon's plan Most Americans also favor Gaza pullout, surveys say

by Rachel Pomerance Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEW YORK -- Ariel Sharon's popularity has reached a new high among Americans, and most American Jews support the Israeli prime minister's Gaza ... › More Info

From Haaretz | Poll: American Jews back Gaza pullout, Palestinian statehood

Poll: American Jews back Gaza pullout, Palestinian statehood By Haaretz Service Most American Jews support the disengagement plan, in spite of doubts about whether it will make Israel safer, a ... › More Info

Poll: American Jews support pullout

new york (jps) | Even as a majority of American Jews support Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from Gaza and some parts of the West Bank, most say they are unsure the withdrawal will ... › More Info

From the Jewish Voice & Herald | BUSH SHARON SUMMIT

By Yehuda Lev Bush-Sharon summits fails to reach new heights A soccer fan could call it a scoreless draw. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's supporters might describe it as a moral victory since ... › More Info

From the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix | Polls find support for Sharon among U.S. Jews and non-Jews

NEW YORK - Ariel Sharon's popularity has reached a new high among Americans, and most American Jews support the Israeli prime minister's Gaza withdrawal plan, according to new polls. It's a "very, ... › More Info

From the Western Jewish Bulletin | Sharon requests support

By KATHARINE HAMER Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met with American Jewish leaders in Washington Wednesday, in a bid to garner support for Israel's disengagement plan. A poll released on ... › More Info

From the Jewish Review | Surveys find Sharon, Israel gaining favor

Ariel Sharon's popularity has reached a new high among Americans, and most American Jews support the Israeli prime minister's Gaza withdrawal plan, according to new polls. It's a "very, very good ... › More Info

From J the Jewish New Weekly of Northern California | Poll: American Jews support pullout

new york (jps) | Even as a majority of American Jews support Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from Gaza and some parts of the West Bank, most say they are unsure the withdrawal will ... › More Info

From the NY Jewish Week | Lament Of The Hawks

James D. Besser - Washington Correspondent On his way to Monday's summit at the presidential ranch in Crawford, Texas, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon described the atmosphere in Israel as "like the ... › More Info

From NEW JERSEY JEWISH NEWS | In Westfield, former Shin Bet director presses peace initiative

by Josh Hamerman Special to NJ Jewish News When Ami Ayalon assumed his post as director of Shin Bet (Israel's internal security service), Israel was in the midst of a violent wave of terrorism. The ... › More Info

From the Forward | Americans Back Gaza Plan

By JENNIFER SIEGEL Jewish and non-Jewish Americans overwhelmingly support the decision of Prime Minister Sharon to remove Israeli settlers from Gaza, according to two recent surveys released Monday ... › More Info

From IMRA | Poll: U.S. Jews Support Disengagement, 22% will make Israel safer, 70% expect terror after peace deal

NEW YORK, April 11, 2005- American Jews, by a nearly three to one margin (62% to 23%) support Israel's disengagement plan to leave Gaza and some West Bank settlements, according to a new survey ... › More Info

From Haaretz | What Sharon forgot to tell the Jews

WASHINGTON - When aides to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon began planning his trip to the United States, they included a visit to Los Angeles, where Sharon was supposed to spend time with the city's ... › More Info

From the Jerusalem Post Online | Poll: US Jews agree with Israelis on disengagement

Uriel Heilman Even as a majority of American Jews support Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from Gaza and some parts of the West Bank, most say they are unsure the withdrawal will make ... › More Info

NY DAILY NEWS | AMERICANS BACK GAZA PULLOUT: POLL

BY DEREK ROSE AMERICAN JEWS - and Americans in general - strongly support Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank, two polls released yesterday show. One ... › More Info

From the JTA | Jews and other Americans support Sharon, moves for peace, polls find

By Rachel Pomerance NEW YORK, April 12 (JTA) ? Ariel Sharon's popularity has reached a new high among Americans, and most American Jews support the Israeli prime minister's Gaza withdrawal plan, ... › More Info

Religious News Service | Poll: U.S. Jews Support Israeli Disengagement from Gaza and West Bank

Nearly two-thirds of American Jews support Israel's plan to leave Gaza and some settlements in the West Bank, a new poll reported Monday (April 11). Hebrew University sociologist Steven M. Cohen ... › More Info

From YNET | Israel should be willing to withdraw from most Jewish settlements in framework of peace deal, 41 percent of American Jews say according to new survey

By Yitzhak Benhorin NEW YORK - American Jews, by a nearly three to one margin (62 percent to 23 percent) support Israel's disengagement plan to leave Gaza and some West Bank settlements, according ... › More Info

From Jerusalem Post | Poll: US Jews support disengagement

American Jews, by a nearly three to one margin (62% to 23%) support the disengagement plan, according to a new survey released Monday. In addition, large numbers of American Jews believe that in ... › More Info

Poll: US Jews Overwhelmingly Support Israeli Gaza-West Bank Disengagement, Say Israel Should Depart Most Settlements to Secure Peace

NEW YORK, April 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- American Jews, by a nearly three to one margin (62 percent to 23 percent) support Israel's disengagement plan to leave Gaza and some West Bank settlements, ... › More Info

From The LA Jewish Journal| Labor Zionist Alliance Acts to Rejuvenate Organization

From the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles: With a new name, new leadership and a new outlook, America's once-graying and shrinking Labor Zionist Alliance (LZA) is re-inventing itself as a ... › More Info

Forward: Jewish Officials Profess Shock Over Report on Zionist Body

Embarrassed leaders of American Jewish organizations were absorbing the news this week that an international body under their control was at the center of a tangled Israeli scheme, detailed in a ... › More Info

"Catching up with Israel" - Ameinu's Mission to Israel - Dec. 23, 2004 - Jan. 3, 2005

Why did Ameinu call its winter 2004 mission "Catching up with Israel" Don't we Zionists already know all there is to know about what's going on in Israel? Ask the members of the mission - which ... › More Info

From the Harvard Crimson | Policy Maker Advocates Faith

Citizens of Israel and Palestine must have faith in their political leaders in order for peace to progress, said policymaker Daniel Levy in a speech Tuesday night, addressing a small crowd at an ... › More Info

From the Forward | Columbia Students Say Firestorm Blurs Campus Reality

Even as Columbia University faces a torrent of allegations of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish bias, the Jewish students at the center of the controversy say their cause has been misunderstood. In a ... › More Info

Ameinu Representative Meets with Bush Advisor on Middle East

During the past three months Ameinu, in conjunction with eight other organizations, collected over eight thousand signatures in a letter to the President. In this 'open letter' Ameinu called for the ... › More Info

From the Canadian Jewish News | Progressive campus Zionists unite in new group

There is an urgent need to redefine Zionism on university and college campuses: that's the message I walked away with from last month's inaugural conference of the Union of Progressive Zionists ... › More Info

From New Voices | Not Just Another Jewish Group

It's safe to say that the American Jewish community has an overabundance of organizations working on Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian issues. On campus, this crowding is felt even more acutely: a ... › More Info

From the JTA | New campus group gives voice to ?progressive? Zionist Students

NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (JTA) -- In the crossfire of rhetoric on college campuses surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ilene Arnsdorf feels intimidated by her fellow Jewish students. A ... › More Info

From the McGill Daily | Jewish group tries to redefine Zionism

Prompted by the polarized campus dialogue surrounding the Israel/Palestine conflict, a new Jewish group is looking to bridge the gap between the political left and right on campus. The Union for ... › More Info

From the Forward | Progressive Zionists Go Back to School

Anti-Israeli student activists have grown increasingly vocal on college campuses in recent years, but in many cases the only organized pro-Israel response has been from right-wing groups. Other ... › More Info

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