The CJF and the Jewish Agency: An Historical Overview by Ernest Stock

The Council of Jewish Federations (CJF)1 today forms an integral part of the complex of American Jewish organizations which play an active role in the governance of the Jewish Agency. Its role, indeed, is so pivotal that it is difficult to imagine an earlier time when the Council was perceived by the Jewish Agency to be not merely an outsider but even an adversary, as was the case throughout the 1940s and well into the 1950s.