WASHINGTON (JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not confirmed to address the Jewish Federations of North America annual General Assembly next month, a rarity for the signature Jewish community event. “The leadership of the State of Israel is always represented at Jewish Federations’ annual conference,” JFNA spokeswoman Rebecca Dinar said Sunday in a statement…
(JTA) — Jewish groups criticized the passage of a health care bill by the House of Representatives to repeal and replace major parts of the Affordable Care Act. The bill passed Thursday in a 217-213 vote almost entirely along party lines. The measure would nix tax penalties for those without health insurance and decrease state programs to insure low-income Americans….
NEW YORK (JTA) — New York’s Jewish federation sent a letter to Congress members in the state opposing the Republican health care bill because of its potential negative impact on poor people. The letter sent Wednesday by Eric Goldstein, the CEO of the UJA-Federation of New York, opposes provisions in the bill that would shift…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Two Jewish agencies charged with elderly care sharply criticized the new Republican health care bill. B’nai B’rith International, which sponsors low-income housing for the elderly, and the Jewish Federations of North America, which advocates for funds for the poor and the elderly, took aim changes contained in the American Health Care Act,…
After America elected a man I consider a proto-fascist, a man who used blatantly anti-Semitic tropes in his closing campaign ad, I wish mainstream American Jewish organizations had paused to think before cozying up to his incoming administration. Yet the Jewish Federations of North America penned a letter congratulating Donald Trump, appreciating in particular his…
The day after a watershed decision by the Jewish Federations of North America to allow some of its trips to visit the West Bank, the organization is hearing an unusual sound: Applause from both sides of the Jewish communal aisle. Hawkish and dovish Jewish leaders are cheering the October 26 board vote for wildly different…
Here are some corrections and updates to my earlier post on who voted how in the Conference of Presidents vote on J Street’s application for membership. 1.) I’ve learned from several sources that Mercaz USA, the Conservative movement’s Zionist arm, in fact voted “No,” breaking with the denomination’s other wings. 2.) On the other hand,…
Anyone can change the course of events, especially when they see injustice. That was the mantra of Gordon Zacks, who died Saturday in the Columbus, Ohio area at the age of 80. A founder of the Republican Jewish Coalition and an unofficial adviser to George H.W. Bush, Gordon wrote the book on character, courage and…
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