3+ week, 4+ day ago   (906+ words) (JTA) — AIPAC and its allies have poured millions of dollars into a California special election, transforming a race between two Democrats into a battleground over the pro-Israel group’s place in Democratic politics. The spending in the Bay Area’s 14th congressional district…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (562+ words) By Shira Li Bartov (JTA) — Abbas Alawieh, a founder of the Uncommitted movement that pressured former President Joe Biden to change his Israel policy, is the projected winner of a Democratic primary for Michigan’s state Senate. Alawieh rose to national…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (403+ words) (New York Jewish Week) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani celebrated the victories of the progressive candidates he endorsed in New York’s Democratic primaries describing their success as a “shift in the balance of power.” Speaking to reporters on Wednesday,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (398+ words) Rep. Dan Goldman talks with a reporter outside the U.S. Capitol on December 18, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) “Do you see how it doesn’t taste like genocide juice?” the post by Poetica Coffee read. “Or are you still having a hard…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (655+ words) (JTA) — Iran will retain ballistic missiles but will never be allowed to have nuclear weapons, President Donald Trump said Wednesday, stressing that his deal opening the Strait of Hormuz and ending the war with the Islamic Republic would save Israel…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (872+ words) An assumption has shaped Western thinking about Iran for decades: that the Islamic Republic has similar goals to those of the West, and can therefore be incentivized to integrate into a more stable regional order. Vice President JD Vance gave…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago   (509+ words) (JTA) — Jacob Reses, the Jewish chief of staff to Vice President JD Vance, is leaving the administration at the end of the summer, a source confirmed to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Thursday. Reses, who’s been in his role since…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago   (320+ words) By Jacob Kornbluh June 11, 2026 New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani had planned to meet this week with Colombian President Gustavo Petro — who has compared Israel’s leaders to Nazis and recently defended his use of the phrase “Heil Hitler” on social…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1386+ words) (JTA) — For weeks, Jewish Democrats in North Carolina worked to block the state’s Democratic Party from passing a resolution declaring Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide. On Saturday, they narrowly prevailed. The measure, titled the “Genocide Accountability Resolution,” was struck…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (438+ words) Members shop at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn. Formed in 1973, the Coop is one of the oldest and largest food cooperatives in America. (James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images) (New York Jewish Week) — A group of pro-Israel activists…...