{"id":3335,"date":"2014-05-09T00:10:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T07:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2014-05-08T09:43:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T16:43:47","slug":"big-tent-stays-same-j-street-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2014\/05\/09\/big-tent-stays-same-j-street-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBig tent\u201d stays same \u2013 J Street rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); \"><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">J Street president\u00a0and founder Jeremy Ben-Ami. <em>(photo from J Street Facebook page)<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In what many observers will see as the de facto expression of mainstream U.S. Jewry\u2019s 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 \u201cpro-Israel, pro-peace\u201d lobby. J Street secured the votes of only about a third of the Conference\u2019s 50 members.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s full membership. The result that 25 organizations either voted against J Street or abstained meant that half of the Conference\u2019s members declined to support J Street\u2019s application.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Conference meticulously followed its long-established Process and Procedures Guidelines in considering J Street\u2019s application&#8230;. 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,\u201d said Conference of Presidents chairman\u00a0Robert G. Sugarman and executive vice-chairman\/chief executive officer Malcolm Hoenlein.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jns.org\/latest-articles\/2014\/4\/30\/j-street-acceptedrejected-by-us-jewish-umbrella-in-big-tent-litmus-test#.U2u07yjH3Qc\" target=\"_blank\">Read more at jns.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J Street president\u00a0and 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\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1005,1006,1008,1007],"class_list":["post-3335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-conference-of-presidents-of-major-american-jewish-organizations","tag-j-street","tag-malcolm-hoenlein","tag-robert-g-sugarman"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}