“Nearly seven months after the inauguration of Barack Obama, feuding among major U.S. Jews organizations is taking place behind closed doors and could be reaching its worst point in recent memory.
Left-wing U.S. Jewish organizations have been buoyed by the election of Obama, and according to some Jewish Democrats in Washington, tensions have been worsened by the lessening of right-wing Jews’ access to senior White House officials, in contrast to the near-monopoly they had on access to Bush administration officials for the past eight years.
The feuding may have become more personal this week, after left-wing Israel advocacy group ‘J Street’ published an open letter Anti-Defamation League Head Abraham Foxman.
The J Street letter came in a response to a full-page ad taken out by the ADL in the New York Times this week, which said, ‘The problem isn’t settlements, it’s Arab rejection.'” (Read more from haaretz.com)