A virtual event by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs gives positive marks.
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On Tuesday evening, prominent representatives from politics, society and the Jewish community of New York came together at a virtual event organized by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) to honor Congressman Nita Lowey. The 83-year-old has represented a district in the suburbs of the City of Washington since 1990 and has now given up her mandate. As an umbrella organization, the JCPA represents around 140 Jewish organizations and honored Lowey for her services to the Jewish community, but also for human and civil rights, and not least her commitment to American-Israeli friendship with its “Tikkum Olam” award. Representative Ted Deutch from Florida, Israeli author Yossi Klein Halevi, historian Deborah Lipstadt, and Israeli entrepreneur and philanthropist Gidi Grinstein (Reut Institute) attended the ceremony. JCPA Vice President Melanie Roth Gorelick told the “Jewish Insider” in advance that the celebration should not least set a sign of “Jewish unity and community” after a tough, polarizing election battle: this was also necessary to preserve a “just and pluralistic America”. Now it is time to “leave the elections behind us and think again about what kind of country we actually want together (Link).
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