What a joke ! Like inviting rats into chicken house ! - Trump Holds High Holidays Conference Call With Select Jewish Leaders
Carol Kuruvilla
HuffPostSeptember 15, 2017
Despite being boycotted by key liberal Jewish organizations, President Donald Trump attempted to reach out to American Jews on Friday with a conference call to express wishes for the upcoming High Holy Days.
The annual conference call, a tradition instituted by President Barack Obama to mark Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, has typically drawn leaders from across American Jewish denominations. This year, the weeks leading up to the call exposed a fracture between liberal American Jews who are critical of the president, and their more conservative counterparts who are interested in keeping a line of communication open with the White House.
Leaders in the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements boycotted the virtual meeting, citing the president’s initialclaim that neo-Nazis and their counterprotestors were both responsible for the violence that erupted at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August. The White House reportedly ended up leaving some of the liberal Jewish organizations off the invitation list.
Representatives from several Orthodox-leaning organizations were invited to participate and decided to call in ― including leaders from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Agudath Israel of America, the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center, the Republican Jewish Coalition, and other groups. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-holds-high-holidays-conference-212743087.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-holds-high-holidays-conference-212743087.html
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