Our Campaign to #SayNoToSmo On Monday, our President and CEO Hadar Susskind invited you to sign onto a statement urging Administration officials to refuse to meet with Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister who is also a self-proclaimed “fascist homophobe” and the de facto Minister of Occupation. That petition – which had 1,000 signatories in the first 24 hours – was the first part of our campaign to make sure that Smotrich wouldn’t be welcomed in Washington without an outcry by the Jewish community. That campaign also included a media push: | |
NJN Calls on Prime Minister Netanyahu to Honor Ceasefire Agreement, Resume Deliveries of Aid to Gaza and Bring the Hostages Home March 3, 2025 – New Jewish Narrative protests the decision by the Netanyahu government to break the ceasefire deal and cut off aid to Gaza this weekend. This decision abandons the hostages who are still trapped in Gaza and risks undermining Israeli security by bringing about a return to war. | |
VOTING STARTS ON MONDAY! A vote for the Hatikvah Slate is a vote for an Israel that lives up to its highest values. Hatikvah is a broad coalition of liberal and progressive American Jews who strive to fully actualize the vision stated in Israel’s Declaration of Independence: the State of Israel “will be based on the precepts of liberty, justice and peace as taught by the Prophets; and will uphold the full social and political equality of all its citizens, without distinction of race, creed, or sex; and will guarantee full freedom of conscience worship, education and culture.” | |
The World Zionist Congress Is Our Chance to Demand a Better Future. Don’t Pass It Up.
By Maxxe Albert-Deitch "Your generation is going to change the world someday.” At first, I took that remark as praise, as a lofty goal to try to live up to. But then it became, “you’re going to fix the world,” and “you young people are going to save the world.” That phrase has since curdled my sense of optimism into raw determination. It’s difficult to change, let alone fix or save, anything when my generation’s voices are underrepresented in government and, especially in my case, Jewish community institutions alike. But as Shirley Chisholm once said, “if they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” So I found the largest nearby table – the World Zionist Congress – and I brought a folding chair: I attached my name to the Hatikvah Slate for the election cycle of 2025. | |
