Reps. Gottheimer, LaHood visit Lebanon, meet President Aoun

Nithya Raman snubs Jewish voters in hotly contested Los Angeles mayoral race

Nithya Raman, a democratic socialist mounting a formidable bid to unseat Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass next month, faced a particularly hostile crowd on Tuesday night at a Jewish community candidate forum, where the city councilwoman fielded several tough questions about Israel. Her answers drew audible groans from the audience members at the Skirball Center... <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/09/ahmad-al-sharaa-israel-diplomacy-trump-troops-lebanon/">Read More</a>

Elisha Wiesel: U.S. Holocaust Museum has ‘unique responsibility’ to counter genocide claims against Israel

Elisha Wiesel urged the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday to speak up against what he called the false accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, arguing that the institution his father helped create has a “unique responsibility” to address the issue. Wiesel, the son of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie... <a href="">Read More</a>

House Democrats introduce sanctions bill targeting settlement expansion

A group of more than 40 House Democrats introduced the Stop the Settlements Act on Wednesday, which would place sanctions on anyone involved in further settlement expansion in the West Bank or Gaza and ban imports from Israeli settlements. The bill is another signal of a significant appetite among congressional Democrats to take a hard... <a href="">Read More</a>

Senate Judiciary Committee cancels planned markup of buffer zone bill

The Senate Judiciary Committee canceled a planned Thursday meeting where the committee was set to discuss and vote on the Right to Worship Act, a bipartisan and bicameral bill that would create buffer zones outside of religious institutions during worship services. The committee announced earlier this week that the bill was on the committee’s agenda... <a href="">Read More</a>

Nonprofit Security Grant Program fulfills less than one-quarter of 2026 applications

In a year when the Jewish community was rocked by a terror attack at a Detroit-area synagogue alongside other antisemitic threats, the Nonprofit Security Grant Program fulfilled less than 23% of applications submitted for funding in 2026, according to new data obtained by Jewish Insider.  The chronically underfunded and overstretched program provides security funding to... <a href="">Read More</a>