Security costs for the Jewish community amount to $765 million per year, Jewish Federations of North America President and CEO Eric Fingerhut told the House Homeland Security Committee’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence in a letter calling attention to the enormous securit…
Jewish Federations had organized the Pride mission to deepen the bonds between North American and Israeli LGBTQ+ communities, but also to help heal a wound that has been festering in our community since the October 7th attacks nearly 2 years ago.
The board of directors for the National Education Association, the United States’ largest teachers union, has rejected a proposal by its delegates to sever ties with the Anti-Defamation League.
The rejection on Friday night comes after the delegates’ proposal earlier this month to bar t…
Jewish community organizations representing the majority of American Jewry welcomed the decision by the National Education Association (NEA) Executive Committee and Board of Directors late Friday to reject a vote by the organization’s Representative Assembly to boycott ADL (Anti-Defamation…
On Monday, the Jewish Federations of North America and 86 local Federations joined over 375 Jewish communal organizations, sent a letter to the National Education Association Executive Committee, urging them to reject New Business Item (NBI) 39, which calls for boycotting ADL's educational r…
