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(Jewish Group) Why Many Progressive Jews Are Turning Away From the Women's March
(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)As the movement prepares for its third annual U.S. protest, some U.S. Jews are agonizing over whether to participate, while others refuse to support a leadership dogged by accusations of anti-Semitism
When hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in Washington for the first ever Women’s March in January 2017, Jamie Oksenhorn had no choice but watch from her sofa in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
She was three months pregnant at the time and on partial bed rest, on doctor’s orders.
A year later, baby daughter Alma in her arms, she attended a Women’s March rally in nearby Morristown.
“It is one thing to go alone, but to be able to bring her was incredible,” Oksenhorn tells Haaretz. “We were there not just marching for ourselves, but for women of the future – we were doing this for them.”
But this year, along with numerous other Jewish women around the United States, Oksenhorn has decided not to repeat the experience.
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