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“I am not concerned about acrimony in the Jewish community,” said Nancy Kaufman, CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, which has 90,000 members in 70 chapters around the country. She spoke with Haaretz immediately after getting off an hour-long call with Vice President Joseph Biden, who held a phone meeting with leaders of Jewish organizations to respond to skepticism about the deal.
“When it manifests as disrespect, that’s when I’m concerned. You can say anything as long as it’s not telling someone that they are anti-Israel or a self-hating Jew. That kind of rhetoric has increased dramatically, to the detriment of our community,” Kaufman explained.
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“I don’t know if the person in the street is all that focused on the question,” said Cohen, a sociologist and scholar of Jewish social policy at the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. “My suspicion is that elites always overestimate interest in these inside-the-beltway questions.”