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J Street claims there name comes from a street in Washington D.C. ("J Street") that doesn't exist, as their "voice" does not exist. Maybe there is a good reason their "voice" does not exist, like because their "voice" sounds too idiotic for even most liberal Jews in America.
I say the "J" in their name stands for something else and that is for the one thing they are good at ![]() |
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J-Street represents the extreme left, assimilationist element J Street, by contrast, is wide open to the public. Visitors must thread their way through a graphic-design studio with which the organization shares office space. There appears to be nothing worth guarding. The average age of the dozen or so staff members is about 30. Ben-Ami speaks for, and to, this post-Holocaust generation. “They’re all intermarried,†he says. “They’re all doing Buddhist seders.†They are, he adds, baffled by the notion of “Israel as the place you can always count on when they come to get you. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/ma...1&pagewanted=5 |
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