Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, a Reform Synagogue in Short Hills, is excited to welcome Amanda Berman, the Founder and Executive Director of Zioness, a new initiative empowering and activating Zionists on the progressive left to stand proudly in social justice spaces as Jews and Zionists. Before she founded Zioness, Amanda was a civil rights attorney fighting …
Amanda Berman is CEO of Zioness, a progressive Jewish organization. AMANDA BERMAN: To have a Jew as president is definitely a cause for concern for a lot of Jews. Jewish power tropes and, you know, questions of dual loyalty for Jews – are they loyal to America or for Israel? – those will be compounded …
The progressive feminist group Zioness criticized Pence’s speech in a statement. “Today, the Vice President of the United States told us we must check our liberal and progressive values — our commitment to social, racial, economic and gender justice in America — at the door if we want to be ‘good’ Jews,” the statement read.
This new community to fight campus antisemitism has mobilized through Alums for Campus Fairness (ACF), an organization that I have the honor of leading. Within a few years since our founding, ACF has grown to over 5,500 alumni and 39 chapters across the country. At our first ever-conference this month, 50 alumni flew to Los …
The event is co-sponsored by two local groups, Democrats for Israel-Los Angeles and the Jewish Center for Justice, and two national groups, Zioness and Democratic Majority for Israel. DMFI’s political action committee reportedly spent nearly $700,000 on attack ads in Iowa against Sanders. Organizers from multiple groups involved said that they will disclose the ad …
