The Zioness Movement praised the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for dropping its partnership with the Women’s March on Tuesday. In a statement sent to the Journal via email, the Zioness Movement praised the move as sending “a clear message that there should be no room for bigotry or anti-Semitism in progressive spaces.” “We are grateful …
SWFS Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch said his congregation had had repeated meetings with the Women’s March Alliance to assuage their concerns about anti-Semitism. “They better represented the values that we thought we were supporting when we supported the Women’s March” in 2017, he explained. The congregation will also be having a teach-in on Thursday night with …
Amanda Berman, founder of the progressive Zionist women’s group Zioness, says that it’s important to distinguish between the march in Washington and sister demonstrations around the country, like the one Zioness will be attending in Los Angeles.
The Zioness Movement held a teach-in at University Synagogue on the evening Jan. 13, where a panel discussed the difficulty of being progressive Zionists.
Zioness, a coalition of progressive, Zionist activists, announced that it would hold teach-ins in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles in response to the recent controversy. The teach-ins will feature leaders of local Women’s March chapters that have dissociated from the national Women’s March Inc., including the founder of the New York City-based …
