Iâ??ve been watching out for articles about Amna Farooqi, the new Muslim-American President of J Street U, since she was elected last month. Thereâ??s more than a little bit of kvelling in that for me, since I taught the first two Israel Studies courses she took at the University of Maryland when she was a freshman, and she has publicly credited me with being instrumental in turning her into one of the few acknowledged Muslim â??Zionists.â?
So I was intrigued as well as puzzled to come across Yori Yanoverâ??s Forward article, â?? Have American Jews Lost all Sense of Boundaries? â? It made no sense to him that Amna could head a putatively â??Jewishâ? organization. His angst, though, was seemingly assuaged when he discovered that J Street nowhere claims to be a â??Jewish organization.â? Implicitly, then, he could dismiss it.
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