DSA-backed D.C. mayoral candidate apologizes privately to Jewish leaders over pledging to boycott Zionist events

DSA-backed D.C. mayoral candidate apologizes privately to Jewish leaders over pledging to boycott Zionist events

Janeese Lewis George, a Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed candidate for mayor of Washington, D.C., met with prominent local rabbis and Jewish community leaders last week amid fallout over a DSA questionnaire she filled out outlining her views on Israel and antisemitism. The March 19 meeting, at the Orthodox Ohev Sholom Congregation in Shepherd Park, was arranged after her responses to a DSA endorsement questionnaire were made public last…

Jews Have Found a Home in DC. The DSA Is Trying to Take It Away.

JCRC of Greater Washington CEO Ron Halber(Courtesy of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington) By Ron Halber In my 25 years leading the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, the Jewish community has increasingly put down roots in our region. Between 2003 and 2018, the Jewish population of the metro D.C. region grew 37%, to nearly 300,000. More than 57,000 Jews now live in D.C. — a close second only to New…