http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/roll-calls-biden-masks-and-king-abdullah-at-j-street-gala/ For the two weeks before Tuesday night’s J Street gala dinner, controversy swirled around the 160-member congressional host committee for the event. A number of members got inquiries about their inclusion on the committee (which didn’t require their attendance at the dinner) from the Weekly Standard’s Michael Goldfarb, and other critics of J Street attacked the organization as out of the mainstream—leading more than a dozen host commitee members to take their names off their list. en-us efingerhut@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-10-29T;02:09:00-05:00