J Street to AIPAC: Let’s make a deal
President Jeremy Ben-Ami said the group will keep its focus on foreign policy, though it highlighted domestic issues in 2022
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News Here’s why J Street isn’t focusing on Israel ahead of midterm elections
“J Street is not a two-state solution organization, that's a mistaken premise,” Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street's founding director, said in an interview
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Israel News How David Friedman Is Putting His Right-Wing Stamp On American Policy To Israel
It is rare for a United States ambassador to challenge his superior, the secretary of state. And it is even rarer for the ambassador to succeed. But that is exactly what David Friedman, the top U.S. diplomat to Israel, did recently. Taking advantage of his close ties to President Trump, Friedman took issue with the…
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News How Trump’s Mideast Peace Overture Puts J Street Liberals In A Bind
It’s a dilemma many left-wing Jewish activists are facing these days: How should doves deal with President Donald Trump’s pivot to Middle East peacemaking? Can the same activists who fought fiercely against Trump’s election and who oppose almost everything he stands for embrace the president’s effort to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? “The overwhelming, if not…
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Community J Street President On Trump Administration: ‘We’re Here If They’re Partners To Work With’
At the annual J Street conference in Washington, DC, J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami discussed new opportunities for outreach for the liberal advocacy group. Ben-Ami, who founded the group eight years ago and serves as its president, expressed a willingness to work on common goals with members and offices of the new administration. “We would…
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Israel News Amid Election Strains and Jewish Divisions, Two Antagonists Debate Israel, Civilly
Before things got underway, Rabbi David Wolpe laid down the law. “I have to both ask and warn you not to be antagonistic,” he told the assembled crowd on Wednesday, November 2. “If you’re really difficult, we’ll remove you.” His stern words were not what one might expect in such a genteel setting — an…
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News Since Alleged 2014 Sexual Misconduct With Staffer, J Street Has Not Invited Shavit To Speak
The liberal Israel lobby group J Street has not allowed the Israeli journalist Ari Shavit to speak at its events since 2014, after the prominent writer was accused of sexual misconduct by a J Street staffer at a conference for college students, the Forward has learned. The revelation comes days after Shavit identified himself as…
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Breaking News J Street Cheers U.S. Rebuke of Benjamin Netanyahu
J Street leaders said they would back the Obama administration as it reconsiders how it deals with Israel in international arenas. Jeremy Ben-Ami, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group’s president, lauded the new approach at the outset of its annual conference Saturday in Washington. “We are very glad to hear the Obama administration is…
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