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The judge overseeing the Maduro trial blazed a trail for Jewish lawyers
Judge Alvin Hellerstein is 92 years old, and with 27 years on the federal bench in Manhattan, he has presided over some of the most prominent trials in recent memory — including thousands of…
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4mBrandeis Center sues to compel release of Department of Education foreign funding report
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed suit against the Department of Education on Wednesday in an attempt to compel the release of a long-delayed report on foreign funding to U.S. colleges and universities, as well as moved to intervene in a separate lawsuit brought by a university association attempting to... <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2017/10/daily-kickoff-rep-rohrabacher-defends-association-holocaust-denier-deutch-lapid-team-jewish-agency-leaders-try-lobbying-israeli-public/">Read More</a>
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2mReport: Vance considering direct talks with top Iranian security official
Vice President JD Vance is considering face-to-face talks with Mohsen Rezaei, the hard-line secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, as the Trump administration seeks to revive diplomatic efforts to end the war with Iran, U.S. and Middle East officials told The Wall Street Journal. Vance sent Rezaei a letter in October reportedly requesting a... <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/weekly-print/november-6-2026/">Read More</a>
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3mGal Gadot to bring Golodryga and Levi's ‘Don’t Feed the Lion’ to the big screen
Gal Gadot and her husband, Jaron Varsano, are teaming up with FOX Entertainment Studios and the media arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center to bring Don’t Feed the Lion, a book about antisemitism and Jewish identity for middle schoolers by journalists Bianna Golodryga and Yonit Levi, to the big screen. The film, announced on Wednesday... <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/11/lehrhaus-bostons-jewish-tavern-and-house-of-learning-is-coming-to-d-c/">Read More</a>
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9mGOP senators reject Vance’s Iran war blame
Republican senators push back against VP Vance’s midterm analysis, while diplomatic tensions with Iran intensify as the administration maneuvers through war policy, funding deadlines, and global political shifts.
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10mFormer Trump official Josh Gruenbaum says elite college presidents privately welcomed admin pressure
Josh Gruenbaum, a former Trump administration official who was involved in the federal government’s pressure campaign against universities over campus antisemitism, claimed in a new podcast interview that several prominent university presidents and trustees privately welcomed the administration’s approach as a way to push back against faculty resistance to institutional reforms. “I could think off... <a href="">Read More</a>