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

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="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/09/troy-jackson-israel-gaza-genocide-jewish-voters-maine/troy-jackson-campaigns-for-u-s-senate-in-maine/">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, &nbsp;the Nonprofit Security Grant Program fulfilled less than 23% of applications submitted for funding in 2026, according to new data obtained by Jewish Insider.&nbsp; The chronically underfunded and overstretched program provides security funding to... <a href="">Read More</a>

Passenger recounts dramatic effort to save Israel-bound FlyDubai flight

Still wearing a bloodstained shirt, Yaniv Hayoun described to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday how he rushed into the cockpit of a FlyDubai flight, helped overpower a co-pilot accused of stabbing the captain and briefly grabbed the aircraft’s controls as the plane was in rapid descent. Hayoun — who, along with the other passengers on board, had just touched down in Israel after making an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia and was immediately invited to meet with the prime minister — said he entered the cockpit after hearing screams and found the wounded captain as well as the co-pilot... <a href="">Read More</a>

FlyDubai passengers prevent mid-air massacre

This briefing covers the investigation into a mid-air terror incident on a FlyDubai flight, political developments in New York, and new initiatives within the Democratic Party.