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Maryland’s Montgomery County Council unanimously voted to adopt the controversial IHRA working definition of antisemitism despite months of community protest.
WASHINGTON: Members of a coalition of 38 community and interfaith groups in Montgomery County, in the US state of Maryland, have called on members of the County Council to scrap a proposal to adopt a definition of antisemitism that equates it with criticism of the Israeli state and its policies in the occupied Palestinian territories. Representatives of the organizations held
Tzedek Chicago, founded as a Jewish community free from a strong attachment to Israel, is now the first officially "anti-Zionist" synagogue.
Tzedek Chicago, founded as a Jewish community free from a strong attachment to Israel, is now the first officially "anti-Zionist" synagogue.
"We ultimately treated this as a communal decision, not an ideological litmus test,” said Scout Bratt, Tzedek Chicago's president.