J Street Blog: American Jewish Community
J Street's Position on the Palestinian Bid at the United Nations General Assembly
November 27th, 2012
This coming Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly will overwhelmingly pass a resolution making Palestine a non-member state observer at the UN. Less clear than the outcome of the vote is the meaning of the resolution for chances of achieving a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read More...
JStreetPAC Scores Big in 2012 Election
November 7th, 2012
JStreetPAC emerged from the 2012 election as the nation's largest pro-Israel PAC and with 50 percent more endorsed Members of the House and Senate than last cycle. Read More...
2012 Election Night Poll Results
November 7th, 2012
J Street commissioned three polls to assess the American Jewish vote in 2012, examining voting preference and priorities, as well as opinions on Israel. One poll focused on the national picture. Another focused on the Ohio Senate race, where Senator Sherrod Brown faced numerous attacks on his pro-Israel credentials and affiliation with J Street. The third poll focused on the state of Florida, where right-wing groups poured an unprecedented amount of money into dishonest ads and attack campaigns to try to turn support for Israel into a partisan wedge issue. Read More...
Rabbi John Rosove To Become J Street Rabbinic Cabinet National Co-Chair
September 25th, 2012
J Street announced today that Rabbi John Rosove, Senior Rabbi of Temple Israel in Los Angeles, will become the new national co-chair of the J Street Rabbinic Cabinet. Read More...
J Street Response to Morally Repugnant Advertisement Campaign
September 24th, 2012
J Street was founded on the idea that there are many ways to be pro-Israel, but Pamela Geller's conflation of the hatred of Muslims with support for the Jewish homeland certainly isn't one of them. Her latest billboard and bus-side screed is morally repugnant and a distortion of Jewish values and Jewish aspirations for the State of Israel. Read More...
