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Amanda Berman to Speak at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, Friday, March 6,

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 …

Sanders Boycotts AIPAC Convention, Angering Many Jewish Voters

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 …

Pence Says at AIPAC, ‘Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitism’ Is Gov’t Policy

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.