Adaptability is key: Millennials are able to respond nimbly to unique generational issues in a way that long-established organizations cannot, Zioness founder Amanda Berman told JI. “Jewish institutions are so large and institutionalized that it’s hard to change the language they’ve built into the system over years,” she said. “We need creative messaging that really …
Millennials “face a litmus test of being a progressive or a Zionist. We say it is a false choice and the imposition of that is inherently antisemitic,” Amanda Berman, founder and executive director of Zioness, told JI, adding that Jewish women who are both feminist and Zionist have “felt politically homeless.” In under three years, …
Amanda Berman joined the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion College Commons podcast where she discussed the Zioness movement, and the continual fight against anti-Zionism in progressive spaces.
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 …
