A SHORT QUIZ

What do the following organizations have in common?

• Alpha Epsilon Pi
• American Friends of Likud
• American Sephardi Federation
• American Zionist Movement
• Americans for Peace Now
• Central Conference of American Rabbis
• Emunah of America
• Jewish Labor Committee
• Legacy Community Family
• NCESJ
• National Council of Young Israel
• Religious Zionists of America
• JINSA
• Women's International Zionist Organization
• Women's League for Conservative Judaism
• Workmen's Circle
• HIAS

The answer: They are all member organizations of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Now this listing (which I admit is [1] totally subjective; and [2] to which I could have added a number of others) is not designed to deprecate the pro-Israel work of any of these entities nor the commitments and contributions their leaders have made; it is mereely to underscore that the adjective Major may have lost its meaning. Big time.

As one of you commented to an earlier Post: "There is no value to the Jewish people to have the Conference of mostly not major Jewish Organizations." I would resist the conclusion of "mostly," just as I recognize that to the Conference the addition of "non-Major" organizations as full "members" is a funding vehicle that supports the work of the Conference. 

And, it ain't cheap...by any measure.

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