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Byline: Alina Dain Sharon

“Big tent” stays same – J Street rejected

“Big tent” stays same – J Street rejected

J Street president and founder Jeremy Ben-Ami. (photo from J Street Facebook page)

In what many observers will see as the de facto expression of mainstream U.S. Jewry’s outlook on J Street, members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on April 30 voted 22-17 (with three abstentions) to reject the membership application of the self-labeled “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby. J Street secured the votes of only about a third of the Conference’s 50 members.

The 42 Conference members in attendance in New York exceeded the 75-percent quorum needed to hold the vote, but J Street fell significantly short of the required threshold of a two-thirds affirmative vote from the Conference’s full membership. The result that 25 organizations either voted against J Street or abstained meant that half of the Conference’s members declined to support J Street’s application.

“The Conference meticulously followed its long-established Process and Procedures Guidelines in considering J Street’s application…. The present membership of the Conference includes organizations which represent and articulate the views of broad segments of the American Jewish community and we are confident that the Conference will continue to present the consensus of the community on important national and international issues as it has for the last 50 years,” said Conference of Presidents chairman Robert G. Sugarman and executive vice-chairman/chief executive officer Malcolm Hoenlein.

Read more at jns.org.

Format ImagePosted on May 9, 2014May 8, 2014Author Alina Dain Sharon, Sean Savage JNS.ORGCategories WorldTags Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, J Street, Malcolm Hoenlein, Robert G. Sugarman
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