Even as there are many who will roll their eyes and say, “Yes, of course, we knew from the beginning,” there is, for me, still something profoundly difficult and profoundly sad about this moment. For […]
Tag: J Street
Why J Street’s Rejection from the Conference of Presidents is a Good Thing
Last week, when J Street’s bid for acceptance into the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations was rejected ”badly” as the Jewish Daily Forward put it, receiving only 17 of the needed 34 […]
Why J Street is (still) so important
This piece was originally published on Common Ground News Service, and was the second piece I wrote following the 2012 J Street Conference in DC. The first, J Street third annual conference marks shift to the […]
J Street: If we lose our Leftist values, we lose what is left of our value
[this piece was originally published on +972 magazine] I have attended all three J Street conferences since the organization formed in 2008 with the dual objectives of pushing the US government to take an active […]
The Leftern Wall 