NYL Summer Mission to Israel Is Underway

A 20% growth spurt! That’s how many more participants are on the National Young Leadership Summer Mission to Israel. Yesterday, the 100 participants from 19 communities engaged with Israelis from all walks of life —at Federation-funded JDC and Jewish Agency initiatives supporting women, …

Kotel and Conversion Bill Update

JFNA is hopeful that all involved parties will continue to work together to make progress on the Kotel resolution and conversions in Israel.

Further reading:

An on-the-ground view of the week's negotiations over the Western Wall agreement and the conversion bill in Israel. 

• TC Jewfolkâ…

Federations Respond to Israeli Gov. Actions on Conversion and Western Wall

JFNA expresses disappointment about Israeli government decisions on conversion and the Western Wall.

• Times of Israel—Conservative Jewry, US federations decry ‘deplorable’ Western Wall reversal
• JTA—Netanyahu defends suspending the Western Wall agreement. Here’s how.

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JFNA Deeply Disappointed by Actions on Kotel and Conversion

JFNA is deeply disappointed over the Israeli government's recent decisions to freeze the 2016 compromise over egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall and to give the Chief Rabbinate a monopoly over Jewish conversion. 

More resources: 

• New York Times—Israel suspends plan for egalitaria…