Live from the J Street Conference: “Nearly 500” Jewish college students, over 2000 total

By David A.M. Wilensky February 26, 2011

The conference is under way. Rachel Lerner, the head of the conference itself, says that there are more than 2000 people here. I’ll buy that. It’s packed. The corner nearest the press seating I chose is chock-full of college students. I wonder how many of them them are here. Rabbi David Saperstein, head of the…

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Live from the J Street Conference: Why it’s called “J Street”

By David A.M. Wilensky February 26, 2011

J Street, the political arm of the pro-peace, pro-peace crowd is getting ready for its second annual conference here in DC. It’s 7:30 already and we haven’t started the opening plenary–set to being at 7–yet. And now they’re announcing that we’ll start in 5 minutes. Jews. Am I right? In other news, the DC convention center–the location…

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