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Hillel International CEO Adam Lehman, right, seen during an event. (Courtesy of Hillel International via JTA)
January 8, 2020, 8:15 am
Jewish campus group Hillel promotes data guru to CEO
Interim executive leader Adam Lehman to succeed Eric Fingerhut, says he will engage with students regardless of their political affiliations
By Ron Kampeas
J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami addressing the group’s annual national conference in Washington on April 15, 2018. (Courtesy, J Street)
October 27, 2019, 9:35 pm
J Street launches bid to push anti-occupation stance in DNC platform
On first day of confab, liberal group seeks to pressure 2020 Democrats to take stronger stance against settlement expansion, for Palestinian rights
By Eric Cortellessa
Students gather for a debriefing session on J Street's 'Let Our People Know' trip to Israel and the West Bank in July 2019 (Courtesy)
October 19, 2019, 4:09 pm
In one-off alternative to Birthright, J Street lets students focus on occupation
This summer, the liberal Zionist group brought 28 young American Jews to Israel and the West Bank. Now, those students want to impact the 2020 political campaigns
By Eric Cortellessa
At J Street's 2017 national conference, a group including Matan Arad-Neeman marched to the Israeli Embassy to drop off letters from hundreds of students calling for Israel to cancel the demolitions of Susya and Khan al-Ahmar. (Courtesy)
January 10, 2019, 5:36 am
Left-wing US student groups increase pressure on Birthright for ‘balanced’ trip
While more mainstream J Street U hasn’t yet called for a boycott, other anti-occupation campus organizations launch provocative steps to disrupt free 10-day youth trip to Israel
By Cathryn J. Prince
American Lara Alqasem, center, sits in a courtroom prior to a hearing at the district court in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
October 12, 2018, 11:21 pm
ADL, J Street and Reform movement back student BDS activist barred by Israel
Israel’s decision to block Lara Alqasem from entering country harms Jewish state’s democracy, US groups say; a Tel Aviv court rules ban is legal
By ToI Staff and JTA
Students pose with signs at J Street U's West Coast workshop, a gather of top West Coast leaders for training and strategy meetings on UCLA's campus. (courtesy)
April 28, 2018, 9:28 am
How ‘controversial’ J Street U keeps liberal Jewish students in the fold
For young Jews looking for something between disaffiliation and traditional advocacy, the progressive campus group is an increasingly important home for engagement on Israel
By Tracy Frydberg
Sheldon Adelson attends the Republican Jewish Coalition annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas on February 24, 2017. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
October 4, 2017, 2:57 pm
Sheldon Adelson group changes how it’s selling Israel on campus
The Maccabee Task Force is quietly making inroads among college progressives who have been a focus for anti-Israel activity
By Ron Kampeas
Princeton University (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, Wdwdbot)
May 1, 2017, 5:37 pm
Princeton Hillel refuses to host Breaking the Silence exhibit
J Street U, which invited the controversial group, goes forward with event at alternate location on campus
By JTA
Ben Gellman and Brooke Davies of J Street U. (Cathryn J. Prince/Times of Israel)
March 30, 2017, 1:03 pm
Liberal student advocacy group proposes proactive investment in Israel and West Bank
At UN anti-BDS confab, J Street’s student arm calls for campus resolutions cementing the need for a two-state solution — and hands-on engagement with boycotters
By Cathryn J. Prince
J Street U students march on the White House on February 25, 2017, the eve of J Street’s annual conference. (J Street via JTA)
February 27, 2017, 1:41 am
J Street, JCPA gatherings grapple with Jewish advocacy under Trump
Jewish groups’ traditional support for immigration may clash with new White House, while left-wing advocates contemplate ‘some really important fights ahead’
By Ron Kampeas
During an October 2015 advocacy conference at Northeastern University in Boston, George Deek of Israel's foreign service speaks about the Jewish state (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)
May 25, 2016, 10:16 pm
Pleading Israel’s case on campus? It helps if you’re not Jewish
As non-Jewish Israelis increasingly give ‘pro-Israel’ talks at US universities, campus activists say they provide the most credible defense of Jewish state’s record on minority rights
By Matt Lebovic
US Secretary of State John Kerry addressing the Saban Forum in Washington, DC, December 5, 2015. (Courtesy of Brookings Institution)
April 18, 2016, 10:01 pm
John Kerry to join Joe Biden in addressing J Street
US secretary of state will speak for first time at liberal group’s conference on Monday night
By JTA and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Anti-Israel students at Columbia University erected a mock 'apartheid wall' in front of the iconic Low Library steps during Israel Apartheid Week, March 3, 2016. (Uriel Heilman/JTA/File)
April 6, 2016, 1:24 am
Is liberal Zionism dead on North American college campuses?
In an increasingly polarized pro- and anti-Israel discussion, where is the missing left?
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Hen Mazzig
September 20, 2015, 3:13 pm
Hen Mazzig
An Israeli leftist to J Street: Stop!
True support of Israel means not patronizing or publicly defaming — and even putting in the occasional kind word
At a StandWithUs Emerson Fellowship training in Los Angeles in late August, students discuss the Iran deal and how to bring it to campus. (courtesy)
September 10, 2015, 12:24 am
Pro-Israel campus groups worry Iran deal debate will end in ‘anti-Semitic hatefest’
On the college frontlines, advocacy groups fear ratification of the nuke deal will expose a failure in Jewish leadership and have severe implications
By Tracy Frydberg
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