general assembly Archives – Page 2 of 12

‘Tackling Hard Issues’: the GA Makes a Return to L.A.

Esther D. Kustanowitz November 8, 2017

At Federation’s General Assembly, grappling with less authority and more division

Jared Sichel November 10, 2015

What’s our mission? How will young Jews react? How do we not alienate the growing number of Jews with left-leaning views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

Everyone’s talking ISIS at the UN, leaving Netanyahu glaring

Jewish Journal October 1, 2015

All anyone attending the United Nations General Assembly opening seemed to want to talk about was the threat posed to the world by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

UN nuclear watchdog rejects plan on monitoring of Israeli sites

Jewish Journal September 17, 2015

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s General Assembly rejected a proposal to require the monitoring of Israel’s nuclear sites.

Proposed nation-state law crosses American Jewish red lines

Rob Eshman December 4, 2014

I wish I could draw.

Q&A with Federation head Jay Sanderson

Jared Sichel November 12, 2014

At the Jewish Federations of North America’s annual General Assembly (GA), held this year in National Harbor, Md., Nov. 9-11, thousands of Jewish professional and lay leaders filled a conference center and hotel to listen to famous and powerful Jews, including two Supreme Court justices and the Israeli prime minister (via telecast), sit through breakout sessions and, most important, network with one another and share ideas that have been tested at Jewish Federations across the country.