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[edit] Two things

Two things: Jewish Peace Fellowship (JPF) was not a spin-off from NJA. JPF has been around since AT LEAST World War II, and has been active in draft resistance during several wars since then. Also -- I was in Agenda in the early days, and I recall that a politically conservative bet din (rabbincal court) somewhere on the East Coast (Boston?) excommunicated any Jew that joined Agenda. This was regarded as a joke by most people. Anybody remember more about this incident? Rooster613 13:47, 16 January 2006 (UTC)Rooster613

• Thanks for your edit -- here's a piece of my thesis (just linked to it on this page)that refers to your second question. I looked for info to include about the excommunication based on your above question.

"Though NJA members identified their activism as explicitly Jewish, they were met with mixed and often critical response from the larger Jewish community. Perhaps the most extreme example of this critical response was the November 1992 excommunication [1] of NJA members performed by three Tewksbury, MA rabbis. A more mainstream example of NJA's marginalization is the fact that NJA was not listed in the American Jewish Committee's American Jewish Yearbook until 1986."

[edit] Lot of work

Checking back in on this page I am excited to see that someone did a lot of work on it, and also a little startled to find the text of my online thesis/website about NJA pretty much cut and pasted onto this site without acknowledging that the text is my writing and research from the website linked on this site at www.newjewishagenda.org

So - whoever did this editing, thank you! And I hope that folks who are interested in this group will check out the lengthier analysis on my website. --Emily Nepon (emily at selfeducation dot org)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:18, 2 January 2008 (UTC)