(Forward) Last week, 13 prominent rabbis held a secret meeting — with Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour, leaders of the Women’s March.
The reason: to try to decide whether the rabbis and their congregations should attend the third annual march, scheduled for this coming Saturday. And if they should attend — which one?
There will be two Women’s Marches in New York, a reflection of the schism in the broader movement. Much of the split is about Mallory’s ties to the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. For a long time, many Jewish women felt ignored by the march leadership, and the leaders thought that Jewish women didn’t understand their perspective. Hence, the meeting.
