J Street contends with challenges to its dogma on Iran at national conference

Jewish leaders worried about Michigan’s prime position on Dems’ 2028 calendar

The selection of Michigan as an early Democratic primary state in the 2028 presidential nominating contest, approved on Friday by a panel of the Democratic National Committee, is prompting some concerns among Jewish and pro-Israel activists who fear the party’s sharp divisions over Israel and its recent controversies over antisemitism could create a volatile political... <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/05/sen-bill-cassidy-defeated-by-trump-endorsed-challenger-in-louisiana-senate-primary/">Read More</a>

How Debra Band revives a dying Jewish artform 

POTOMAC, Md. — Debra Band’s art studio sits at the back of her Maryland home, a room crowded with kosher parchment, jars of 23.75-karat gold leaf, the parrot she recently fostered and the unfinished pages of three books she’s working on simultaneously. It is, by her coy admission, a mess. “It’s chaos,” she said humbly,... <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/03/elbridge-colby-iran-strikes-national-defense-strategy/">Read More</a>

Sen. Mark Kelly: ‘I’m going to always stand by Israel as a nation’

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said on Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press” that he will “always stand by Israel as a nation,” while adding that he hopes Israelis will oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the elections later this year. “I’m not happy with the decisions that the prime minister of Israel has made over... <a href="">Read More</a>

Trump says U.S. is still negotiating with Iran but Tehran isn’t ‘ready’ for a deal

President Donald Trump said in remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Friday that the U.S. is continuing to negotiate with Tehran even amid U.S. strikes on Iran, but added that he didn’t think that Iranian leaders were ready to make a deal. “They are talking to us right now. They’d love to make... <a href="">Read More</a>

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer endorses Haley Stevens for Senate

With less than two weeks until Michigan’s contentious Democratic Senate primary, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) on Friday, offering a burst of momentum to the moderate Democrat’s campaign against progressive, anti-Israel firebrand Abdul El-Sayed.&nbsp; “Haley will do whatever it takes to get things done for people in Michigan, and we need... <a href="">Read More</a>