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 …
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 …
Jewish social rights organization Zioness has condemned the leaders and Zioness founder Amanda Berman has formed the progressive platform for the L.A. march for those who are Jewish and wish to fight for social causes such as women’s and LGBTQ rights. In December 2018, Zioness released a statement regarding anti-semitism at the march and condemned …
After the announcement, groups such as the Zioness Movement—a progressive female Zionist organization—applauded Shook’s statement. “Zioness shares Shook’s sentiment that it is high time for new leadership at a movement created to stand in love and solidarity against hate,” the group said in a statement. “Since our founding in 2017, Zioness has spoken out time …
