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CNN’s ties with Qatar deepen with October summit in Doha
A year and a half after CNN announced its plans to launch a network hub in Qatar, the media company is deepening its ties to the Gulf state with a Middle East speaker series in the capital of Doha…
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22mLonghorns lock horns over Piker
This edition covers Norm Eisen’s controversial alliances, campus outrage over Hasan Piker, a new poll on JD Vance’s low Jewish support, and a tribute to 9/11 first responders.
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Norm Eisen's alliances with Israel critics raise eyebrows within Jewish community
Norm Eisen, a former Obama White House lawyer and U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic, has in recent months emerged as one of the Trump administration’s most prominent legal antagonists. Through a nonprofit group he founded, Democracy Defenders Fund, Eisen has helped to wage a series of key court battles challenging the administration over issues... <a href="">Read More</a>
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Buffer zone bill aims to protect worshipers when prosecutors fail to act, lead GOP sponsor says
Rep. Brad Knott (R-NC), the lead House Republican sponsor of the Right to Worship Act, a federal buffer zone bill to protect religious institutions from disruptive and threatening protests, said on Wednesday that the bill aims to give targeted worshipers a recourse particularly where prosecutors fail to step in or take action. Knott, a former... <a href="">Read More</a>
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9mA rabbi answered the call at Ground Zero. Two decades later, it cost him his voice
For more than four decades, Rabbi Ronald Kaplan’s primary tool for his work was his voice. It was the instrument he relied on every Shabbat and holiday on the bimah, in the classroom, under the chuppah, at the cemetery and in the hospital — guiding congregants through both moments of celebration and grief. As he... <a href="">Read More</a>
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7mUniversity of Texas College Dems invitation to Hasan Piker sparks campus outrage, GOP fire
The University of Texas’ College Democrats chapter invited antisemitic streamer Hasan Piker to speak on campus at the end of the month, sparking outrage from Jewish leaders and students on campus and generating a potential political firestorm in a red state hosting consequential elections in November’s midterms. The event, hosted by the University Democrats, a... <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2025/12/roman-gofman-netanyahu-mossad-israel-military-secretary/">Read More</a>