conference of presidents of major american jewish organizations

• Can We Say No to a Friend?

Ben-Ami does not rehearse his role in the 2000 negotiations but places the Clinton peace effort in a longer historical perspective, offering what he calls an "interpretive overview...ut the pendulous move of Jews and Arabs between war and peace." Michael Massing in the New York Review of Books (June 8, 2006), after criticizing some of the authors' facts and an inadequate analysis, goes them one better and lays out in even greater detail how AIPAC and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations influence policy not only about Israel but the Middle East (Iraq, Iran, and Syria).

• Commonweal
• August 11, 2009

• New American Jewish Lobby Wants to Be Alternative to Aipac

Now more than ever, true friendship requires strong American leadership and engagement to move the sides toward a comprehensive two-state solution," the Israeli leaders wrote in a letter to J Street's founders. "With time running out, business-as-usual will not do. Indeed, earlier this month, Eric Yoffie, the president of the influential Union of Reform Judaism, called on Jews to disassociate themselves from [John Hagee] and his organization, Christians United for Israel (CUFI). Several days later, seven past chairmen of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, another major national group whose leadership has moved increasingly to the right, defended Hagee as a "true friend of Israel" and CUFI as "among the strongest supporters of Israel in the United Stat...

• Arab American News, The
• August 26, 2009

• News Briefs

A U.S. Jewish security network has ramped up daily communication with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in light of Middle East fighting. Although there has been no specific threat against any U.S. Jewish institution, the Secure Community Network, is speaking "constantly" with these agencies, said Paul Goldenberg, SCN's national director. "At this point in time there is nothing specific that says Hezbollah is planning an attack on Jewish institutions to the best of our knowledge," he told JTA. "However, they should as a community remain vigilant. With escalated fighting, there's always a concern that there are people out there that don't await orders from any particular place." SCN, a security resource center for the U.S. Jewish community, was founded by the Conference o...

..., was founded by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the Uni...

• Chicago Jewish Star
• August 11, 2009

• Israel's 'American Problem': The Jewish Groups Which Stand in the Way of Peace

Discussing efforts by such groups as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Conference of Presidents to enforce what they view as a pro-Israel position in the current presidential campaign-particularly with regard to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), who is feared as one whose Middle East views are largely unknown-Goldberg writes that ...by the standards of rhetorical correctness maintained by such groups...Mr. Obama is actually more pro-Israel than either Ehud Olmert or Ehud Barak (to say nothing of John McCain and President George W. Bush, who spoke to the Knesset about external threats to Israel's safety but made no mention of the country's missteps). " "A More Nuanced Approach" Seymour D. Reich, president of the Israel Policy Forum and a former chairman of the Confere...

Those American Jewish organizations which frequently proclaim themselves "friends" of ... of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Goldberg reports, "...

• Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, The
• Vol. 27 Nbr. 6, August 2008

• American Jewish Leaders Asked to Speak Out Against Growing Terrorism in Israel

According to Bloomfield, "Only two major Jewish organizations condemned the bombing-the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League-but they made no mention of the larger problem nor of leaflets at the scene calling for the murder of peace activists and declaring 'the State of Israel has become our enemy' and its leaders are 'a mob of wicked people, haters of the Torah who want to erase the laws of God.'" While Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism, had written to Prime Minister Olmert on Oct. 6 urging a crackdown on the violence and the honoring of Israel's commitments to freeze settlements and dismantle illegal West Bank outposts, Bloomfield pointed out that, "The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,...

• Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, The
• Vol. 28 Nbr. 1, January 2009

• Jewish Community Makes United Approach On Durban Ii

To: RELIGION EDITORS Contact: Malcolm Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, +1-212-318-6111; or Betty Ehrenberg of World Jewish Congress, +1-212-755-5770

• U.S. Newswire
• March 31, 2009

• Debunking Israel Lobby, Study Shows Growing Alienation of American Jews From Israel

Triple Negatives for Pro-Israel Lobby Indeed, in an article in the Sept./Oct. 2007 issue of Tikkun, Rabbi Michael Lerner argued that the pro-Israel lobby-that constellation of organizations including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and a host of others-is "Bad for the United States, bad for Israel, and bad for the Jews." It is bad for the U.S. he argued, because "The Israel lobby identifies the best interests of the U.S. with those of the Israeli right-wing, and that right wing engages in activities against the Palestinian people in particular and against neighboring states, which have inflamed global public opinion not only against Israel but against the U.S." It is bad for Israel, he continued, ...

• Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, The
• Vol. 26 Nbr. 9, December 2007

• Correspondence

In responding to polls, large numbers of American Jews are liberal internationalists, favor negotiations with the Palestinians to end the Israeli occupation, and side with the Israelis critical of a primarily ethnic conception of their state. [...] in their angry and obsessive commitment to the Israel of Zionist nationalism, Peretz and the leaders of American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, are on to something.

• American Prospect, The
• Vol. 18 Nbr. 9, September 2007

• Netanyahu and American Jews.

The American Jewish community is supporting Pres Bill Clinton's plans of exerting pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to keep alive the Middle East peace talks. Support for Clinton's plan was reiterated by the head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Melvin Salberg who proclaimed that Clinton is the most pro-Israel president in the history of Israel. The Jews' attitude towards Netanyahu's leadership was prompted by the embarrassing way with which he failed to honor the Oslo peace process.

• World Policy Journal
• Vol. 15 Nbr. 1, March 1998

• U.S. Jewish Leader Worried by Thrust of White House Campaign

THE HEAD OF THE Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Malcolm Hoenlein, expressed concern Feb. 12 regarding the atmosphere that has surrounded Democratic Senator Barack Obama's campaign for president, while making it clear he has no problem with Obama himself.

• Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, The
• Vol. 27 Nbr. 3, April 2008