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A Black Lives Matter protest against police brutality in St. Paul, Minn., in 2015. Credit: Fibonacci Blue via Wikimedia Commons.

Cancel culture comes to the Conference of Presidents

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Americans are united in their outrage about the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who was wrongfully killed by a Minneapolis policeman. But the reaction to the death of Floyd has transcended the...
Zionist Organization of America national president Mort Klein (left), and HIAS president and CEO Mark Hetfield

HIAS and ZOA trade charges as Conference of Presidents battle escalates

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Long focused on acting as the unified voice to the American Jewish community, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is facing its biggest test yet amid an escalating dispute among several...
Zionist Organization of America's President Mort Klein. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr.

ZOA doubles down on opposition to Dianne Lob as next Conference of Presidents chair

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The Zionist Organization of America hosted a webinar on Monday evening about the recent controversy over the new chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Featured were ZOA national president Mort...
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations selects William Daroff (left) as new CEO. He will replace Malcolm Hoenlein, who has served with conference since 1986. Photos courtesy of Jewish Federations of Greater Washington/Flash90.

Do the Jews really need a Conference of Presidents?

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Blame it all on John Foster Dulles. The origins of an entity that has long been considered the focal point of organizational advocacy for Israel dates back to 1956, when President Dwight Eisenhower’s secretary of...
Likud Knesset member Gideon Sa'ar speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem on Feb. 19, 2020. Photo by Avi Hayoun.

In talk to American Jewish leaders, Sa’ar throws water on idea of Palestinian state

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Likud Knesset Member Gideon Sa’ar said on Wednesday that while the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan is better than any proposal Israel has seen in decades, a Palestinian state just miles from Israeli population...
Executive vice president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Malcolm Hoenlein, Feb. 19, 2017. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash 90.

Conference of Presidents: Jewish mission to Saudi Arabia the result of ‘two decades of...

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A delegation of 30 Jewish American leaders was hosted by senior government officials last week in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for a four-day summit organized by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem on Feb. 16, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Netanyahu: Accumulation of power creates a new approach for Israel in the Middle East

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a delegation of American Jewish leaders that the “accumulation of power is creating a new approach for Israel” in its relations throughout the Middle East, and particularly with...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, at the annual J Street Conference in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 28, 2019. Credit: Michael Brochstein/Split Stone Media.

Jewish organizations ‘deeply troubled’ by Democrats’ talk of leveraging US aid to Israel

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The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, an umbrella group of 50 Jewish organizations, released a statement on Nov. 1 condemning the Democratic presidential candidates saying that aid to Israel should be used as leverage...
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations selects William Daroff (left) as new CEO. He replaces Malcolm Hoenlein, who has served with conference since 1986. Photos courtesy of Jewish Federations of Greater Washington/Flash90.

Conference of Presidents taps William Daroff as new CEO

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The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, an umbrella group with 53 member organizations, has selected William Daroff as its next CEO, JNS has learned. Currently senior vice president for public policy and...
From left: Dan Diker, Director of the Political Warfare Project at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Elan Carr, Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism, Gerald Steinberg, founder and president of NGO Monitor, Michal Hatuel-Radoschitzsky, research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, and Gerald Ostrov. Photo by Alex Traiman.

New US envoy on anti-Semitism: No distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism

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Elan Carr, the United States’ new envoy to combat anti-Semitism, told American Jewish leaders in Jerusalem that he will work to end the “attempted distinction” between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, while praising U.S. President Donald Trump’s...