Good Thursday morning!
In today’s edition of Your Daily Phil, we report on the Jewish community’s response to the sentencing of the Tree of Life synagogue gunman yesterday, and feature an opinion piece from Guila Benchimol. Also in this newsletter: Barry and Honey Sherman, Danielle Sassman and Doron Almog. We’ll start with the Workers Circle’s resignation from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
The Workers Circle announced it was resigning from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Wednesday, citing differences over Israeli, American and Jewish communal politics, reports eJewishPhilanthropy’s Judah Ari Gross. This brings the number of member organizations in the conference to an even 50, with three more adjunct members.
“We have disagreed with the COP’s reluctance to critique Israel, its equation of such critique as antisemitism, its adoption and promotion of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and its failure to condemn the Israeli parliament’s recent steps to erode democracy in Israel,” wrote Workers Circle President Zeev Dagan and CEO Ann Toback in a letter addressed to Conference of Presidents CEO William Daroff and Chair Harriet Schleifer.
“We are further dismayed at the silence of COP in the face of the many attacks on democracy here in the United States,” Dagan and Toback wrote. “We cannot be part of an organization that stands idly by in the face of these existential crises.”
The Workers Circle’s resignation did not appear to be the start of a wider exodus of progressive groups from the conference.
Daroff told eJP that the Workers Circle had not voiced any of its concerns with the Conference of Presidents prior to the resignation and have generally not been involved in the organization for several years. “It’s peculiar,” he said.
“They felt out of sync with the Conference of Presidents because they are out of sync with the mainstream community,” he said. “And, if they don’t feel comfortable on Main Street, I absolutely respect their desire to be elsewhere.”
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