Posts Tagged: Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations
Top American Jewish Leader: ‘Predictions of Israel’s Isolation Were Really Shattered This Year’
Despite the challenges it faces, Israel has much to be optimistic about in the coming year, a top US Jewish leader told The Algemeiner in...
American Jewish Leaders Welcome Israel-Turkey Reconciliation Agreement
Prominent American Jewish leaders welcomed the reconciliation agreement announced by Jerusalem and Ankara on Monday. In a joint statement, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations...
Top Jewish Leader Says ‘We Have Collective Responsibility’ to Fight Campus Antisemitism
JNS.org - Seventy-five percent of American Jewish students say they have witnessed or experienced antisemitism on their college campuses, a problem that “we have a collective...
Israel Decries Facebook, YouTube Policy Allowing Anti-Jewish Incitement, Holocaust Denial on Pages
An official in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs slammed Facebook and YouTube for rejecting repeated requests to automatically intercept content that could lead to assaults against Jews,...
Netanyahu: Israel Maintains ‘Discreet’ Ties With Many Arab States
JNS.org - Major Arab countries “are changing their view of Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a visiting Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations...
Turkish President Meets With Top US Jewish Leaders Over Possible Rapprochement With Israel
JNS.org - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday reportedly met with several top American Jewish leaders on the topic of ongoing negotiations that may lead...
Pollard Cancels Address to Jewish Organizations to Avoid Risk of Return to Prison
JNS.org - Jonathan Pollard, who was released in November after serving 30 years in a US prison for spying on America for Israel, canceled a speech...
Jonathan Pollard to Address Major Jewish Organizations
JNS.org - Jonathan Pollard, who was released from a US prison last November after being incarcerated for 30 years over spying on America for Israel, will...
Following Outcry, Obama Administration Acknowledges Murder of American Jew Killed in Palestinian Terror Attack
“We were deeply saddened to learn about the death of Ezra Schwartz, an American citizen from Massachusetts who was murdered in a terrorist attack on...
Jewish Movements in the US Come Together in Solidarity With Israel
After a year increasingly dominated by bitter internal Jewish disputes over the Iran nuclear agreement, all of the major American Jewish synagogue movements will come...
Jewish Leader Follows Up With Power on Pullout From Netanyahu’s UN Speech
JNS.org - After he personally consulted with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, whom President Barack Obama pulled away from attending Israeli Prime Minister...
Jewish Umbrella Body: Cut US Funding If Palestinians Fail to Curb Terror
JNS.org - The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella body representing 53 national Jewish groups, on Thursday urged the Obama administration “to...
Jewish Umbrella Says ‘Chickenshit’ Damage Not Undone, Group Criticizes Disability Insult
JNS.org - The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which represents 51 national Jewish groups, said the Obama administration's criticism of its...
Report: Kerry to Speak With Netanyahu Over ‘Chickenshit’ Insult
American Secretary of State John Kerry plans to speak with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and clarify that "personal criticism" against the Israeli leader "is...
