BREIRA

From KeyWiki

BREIRA was a group of leftwing Jewish activists and communists who tried to create a "liberal" group that opposed Israel's policies as well as to fight against the conservatives in both religion and the anti-communist movement. Among their leaders were individuals who were active in other far-left groups, including the Institute for Policy Studies IPS - Arthur Waskow one of its founders, and so-called Rabbi Michael Lerner, an SDS leader in the Seattle Liberation Front and later became a religious advisor to Hillary Clinton when she was the First Lady in the White House.

Goals of BREIRA

Members and Supporters of BREIRA

• Suse Moyal - North California, sponsor of the CAPME NY Times ad of June 22, 1980 "End Middle East Bloodshed
• Rabbi Gerald Serotta - Rabbi, CAPME ad 6/22/80
• Rabbi Michael Robinson - CONAME (see below)

Those identified in Breira from "Midstream" magazine, April 1977

• Rabbi Balfour Brickner - Executive Board^[1]
• Rabbi David Saperstein - Executive Board, Op. cit Midstream, April 1977
• Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf - Chairman (1977); also Hillel rabbi at Yale; (CONAME) Committee on New Alternatives in the Middle East, a group that was essentially controlled by the Communist Party USA and the Socialist Workers Party . See: The Jewish Week & American Examiner (Wash. DC), June 6, 1970, " " by Max P. Friedman for a full expose' of this organization and some of its "U.S. tour" anti-Israel propaganda operations, esp. regarding Israel Marxist Arie Bober and Israel Shahak.
• Bob Loeb Robert Loeb - Executive Director, 1977; first of two paid staff members, Midstream, Op.cit.
• John Ruskay - first of two paid staff members; Midstream, Op. cit.
• Barry Rubin - Executive Board, came from MERIP Middle East Research and Information Project, (MERIP), "an openly Marxist grouping that identified with the Palestinian terrorists" (FtNt 5 - Barry Rubin). Rubin left Breira and other marxist organizations and has been affiliated with pro-Israel organizations for several decades.
• Arthur Waskow - Executive Board, 1977, Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a very important marxist think-tank in Washington, D.C.
• Alan Mintz - a founder of Breira
• Mark Bruzonsky - member as early as 1976. He will show up in many anti-Israel organizations in the 1990s and 2000s.
• Rabbi Gerald Serotta - a Hillel rabbi
• Rabbi Leonard Beerman - Jewish Peace Fellowship (JPF), a "pacifist" organization; CONAME
• Rabbi Everett Gendler - JPF; CONAME
• Rabbi Robert Gordis - JPF; resigned from Breira because of their anti-Israel positions in InterChange
• Rabbi Michael Robinson - JPF; CONAME
• Rabii Max Ticktin - Assistant National Director of Hillel (a national Jewish student organization on college campuses across the US)
• Rabbi Albert Axelrad - CONAME
• Rabbi Richard N. Levy - CONAME; Breira's Executive Board
• David Szonyi - Executive Board
• Rabbi Arthur Green - member
• Rabbi Robert Goldburg - member, Chicago leftist; CPUSA fronts including the 1966 dinner to honor CPUSA theoretician Herbert Aptheker, sponsored mainly by the CPUSA's American Institute for Marxist Studies (AIMS)
• Rabbi Eugene Borowitz - Breira
• Rabbi Joachim Prinz - resigned in disagreement with Breira and its policies as stated in their publication [{InterChange]]
• Jacob Neusner - resigned/InterChange
• Nathan Glazer - resigned/InterChange (became the editor of Commentary, a pro-Israel publication
• Trude Weiss-Rosmarin - editor of [{The Jewish Spectator]] - resigned/InterChange
• Irving Howe - Breira; well known marxist thinker and author, affiiated with the Socialist Scholars Conference (SCC) of the 1960s and then the revived ones of the 1980s.
• Rabbi Eugene Lipman - Breira
• Henry Schwarzschild - Breira (possibly a Holocaust survivor); supporter of leftist causes
• David Glanz - working committee that established Breira
• Martha Acklesberg - "Jewish women's movement"
• Liz Koltun - ibid
• Paula Hyman - ibid
• Lucy Steinitz - ibid
• Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer -ibid

References