High stakes in the Great Lakes

DSA's Achilles' heel goes beyond antisemitism 

One of the unsettling realities that American Jews have been learning throughout this election cycle is that antisemitic behavior and virulently anti-Israel rhetoric has become so normalized that it doesn’t register all that much politically anymore.&nbsp; The early tell was discovering that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s involvement throughout his life in extreme anti-Israel... <a href="">Read More</a>

Interests, not values, drive U.S.-Israel alliance, Ron Dermer says 

Israel’s relationship with the U.S. depends on mutual interests, not shared values, Ron Dermer, Israel’s former minister of strategic affairs, said on Monday at the Israel on Campus Coalition’s conference in Washington.&nbsp; “The problem people have is they romanticize the U.S.-Israel relationship. People think the U.S. has always been a strategic ally from day one,”... <a href="">Read More</a>

Nonprofit groups requested more than $1.3 billion in security aid in 2025, five times the amount available

Nonprofit groups, including religious institutions, requested more than $1.3 billion in funding from the Nonprofit Security Grant Program in 2025, around five times the $266 million that was ultimately available, a Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesperson told Jewish Insider. In total, more than 8,000 institutions applied for funding, and around 1,600 — roughly 20% —... <a href="">Read More</a>

Iranian regime ‘won’t make it’ to the end of Trump’s term, former NSC official predicts

ASPEN, Colo. — Robert Greenway, who led the Middle East and North Africa portfolio on the National Security Council during President Donald Trump’s first administration, predicted to Jewish Insider in an interview last month that the Iranian regime would not “make it” to the end of Trump’s time in office. Greenway’s comments came amid the... <a href="">Read More</a>

Darline Graham, backed by Trump, still faces obstacles in bid to succeed brother in the Senate

Senator Darline Graham faces a challenging path in South Carolina's GOP primary, as strategists predict a runoff despite President Trump's endorsement and her late brother's legacy.