The president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Randi Weingarten, has drawn criticism after she labeled Jewish parents pushing for schools to reopen as privileged members of the “ownership class.”
Weingarten, who is herself Jewish and married to a rabbi serving a New York City-based progressive congregation, was asked in a phone interview in March with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency about those in the Jewish community who are “very skeptical” of efforts from teachers unions to keep schools closed.
