Amanda Berman, founder of a progressive Zionist group called Zioness, believes there are two main reasons why Jews in the United States are not being shown as much solidarity as they were after the Pittsburgh shooting. “First of all, Americans love to politicize antisemitism by pointing to their perceived ideological enemies and accusing them of …
Amanda Berman, who founded the Zioness movement in 2017, has spent the past five years “in the belly of the beast” countering antisemitism. Yet the events unfolding overseas were “an impossible week.” “I knew how serious [antisemitism] was — I talked about it 18 hours a day — and I never expected this,” she said. …
“There continues to be a space for Zionist Jews on the left, of course — and we’ve felt more solidarity and received more vocal support than ever before,” Amanda Berman, the founder of Zioness, told JI. “The splintering between those with conscience and humanity, and those glorifying and celebrating evil, could potentially have long-lasting positive …
After a successful kick-off to a season of Arts, Culture + Community events with over 100 convening at the Tucson J earlier this month for a conversation with infamous author, Dara Horn, the Weintraub Israel Center is excited to welcome Zioness Founder and Executive Director, Amanda Berman to the J’s campus Sunday, October 15 from …
In songs and in speeches, an event at the White House marking Jewish American Heritage Month celebrated the presence of Jews in America since colonial times — and fretted about threats to American Jewry today. “For some reason it’s come roaring back in the last several years,” President Biden told a crowd of Jewish supporters …
