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Have criticisms of Israel by Reform leaders and rabbis contributed to a distancing from – and even, in some instances, a hostility toward – Israel among some Reform Jews?

JERUSALEM POST A promise that should be kept by Jonathan Greenberg April 25, 2016 …When Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the current head of the Union for Reform Judaism, was appointed to his post in 2011, much was made of his leftwing … Continue reading

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VP Biden addressing J Street, hours after terror attack, takes opportunity to criticize Israel

COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS Biden’s Untimely Assault on Israel by Elliott Abrams April 19, 2016 Yesterday, Israel was assaulted twice: once by terrorists, and once by the Vice President of the United States. The physical attack was in Jerusalem, where a … Continue reading

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“J Street, in fact, no longer holds an annual conference. Having attended last year’s J Street big event, I can tell you that the tumbleweeds rolling in the halls spoke to its attendance numbers” [VIDEO]

AMERICAN SPECTATOR Donald Trump Brings out the Worst in J Street by Paul Miller April 7, 2016 Most Americans perceive Donald Trump as a talking car-crash. You don’t like what you hear or see, but you’re unable to look away. … Continue reading

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“The double standards employed by Obama administration and classification of Israel as morally equivalent to the terrorists and the failure to directly reprimand Palestinian leaders engaged in incitement to murder Jews…reflect morally outrageous behavior” [VIDEO]

ISRAEL HAYOM The fallout of the Obama doctrine: Global chaos and its implications for Israel and the Jewish people by Isi Leibler March 23, 2016 President Barack Obama’s determination to downgrade U.S. international power has generated massive global instability and … Continue reading

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“The Reform movement is in precipitous decline. Besides having merely 1.7 children per family, 60% of recent marriages have been with non-Jews. Only one of every five intermarried parents raises children as Jewish”

ARUTZ SHEVA A declining Reform Movement wants to Reform Israel by Rabbi Yaakov Menken March 22, 2016 …A mere 3 percent of Israeli Jews identify with the [Reform] movement, and even fewer attend one of the only 42 Reform congregations in the … Continue reading

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J Street endorses Highland Park Mayor Rotering, Democratic candidate for IL-10

CHICAGO TRIBUNE J Street PAC backs Rotering in IL-10 by Staff January 6, 2016 Nancy Rotering, a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 10th Congressional District, has gotten the endorsement of J-Street PAC, a left-leaning pro-Israel group. In a statement, … Continue reading

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American Jewish Leaders Should Rethink Syrian Refugee Position

AMERICAN THINKER American Jews Betrayed by Their Leaders. Again by Carol Greenwald December 6, 2015 On December 2, a letter signed by one thousand rabbis was delivered to Congress calling on “our elected officials to uphold the great legacy of … Continue reading

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Whistling Past the Graveyard, Jewish Progressives ignore community’s peril

JEWISH ADVOCATE J Street: A Knife Inside the Tent by Charles Jacobs November 6, 2015 …Yet perhaps what is most painful is the behavior of two groups of American Jews – our confused leaders and our Jewish “progressives.” Knowing the … Continue reading

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J Street, other liberal groups try to deny Jewish connections to Israel

ARUTZ SHEVA ‘Pro-Israel’ J Street says Jews not indigenous to Israel by Ari Soffer October 25, 2015 It would seem to be a fairly basic principle for a pro-Israel organization to accept: that the Jewish people is an indigenous nation to … Continue reading

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Jew-hatred infects many, including other Jews

MOSAIC Jews against Themselves by Gabriel Schoenfeld September 24, 2015 As a new book shows, hatred of Jews can be infectious—and some of the worst carriers are Jews who defame their own people…J Street is an organization that describes itself … Continue reading

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