Eric Fingerhut

This organization was supposed to unite Jews. A debate over Black Lives Matter may fuel its demise.

The Jewish Council for Public Affairs has a 75-year history of independent advocacy for civil rights and articulating a broad American Jewish consensus on a range of other policies.

Eric Fingerhut leaves top post at Hillel to head Jewish Federations of North America

The former congressman succeeds Jerry Silverman, the umbrella group’s leader since 2009.

Hillel president sorry for backing out of J Street conference

Eric Fingerhut mainly wanted to talk inclusion at Hillel and fighting BDS on campus, but the student activists steered the conversation to Israel’s occupation, the two-state solution and their feelings of marginalization.

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