The Jewish Daily Forward
By Nathan Guttman and Anna Goldenberg
April 28, 2014

Several large, mainstream Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, have to decided to vote in favor of admitting the dovish Israel lobby J Street into organized Jewry’s primary umbrella group on Israel. Others, like the Jewish Federations of North America, are leaning towards voting that way, according to informed sources.

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which is scheduled to vote Wednesday on J Street’s request for admission, is conducting its process under a shroud of secrecy. The decision will be made in a closed-envelope ballot, and most of the member organizations remained tight-lipped regarding their expected vote.

“The ADL will vote for the inclusion of J Street in the Conference of Presidents,” Abe Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, confirmed on Monday. “It’s not because we agree with everything J Street says, but because we think they are part of community.” He added that J Street’s views are accepted by many in Israel and there is no reason they should not be part of the discussion in the U.S.

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