Jewish Americans Ask: What Does It Mean To Be ‘Pro-Israel’?

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Lauren Markoe | May 7, 2014

WASHINGTON (RNS) Who speaks for the American Jewish community?

On most any topic, there is no single answer. But on Israel, the U.S. government has come to rely on one group: the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. But today that group, charged with presenting a united front, looks anything but unified.

Created at the request of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who wanted to hear a single Jewish-American voice on the newly founded Jewish state, the conference includes the heads of some 50 Jewish denominations, philanthropies and political organizations.

On April 30, the conference rejected, by a 22-17 vote, the membership bid of J Street, a growing pro-Israel group, but one that is more dovish than the conference as a whole.

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