Brandeis Center sues to compel release of Department of Education foreign funding report

Report: Vance considering direct talks with top Iranian security official

Vice President JD Vance is considering face-to-face talks with Mohsen Rezaei, the hard-line secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, as the Trump administration seeks to revive diplomatic efforts to end the war with Iran, U.S. and Middle East officials told The Wall Street Journal. Vance sent Rezaei a letter in October reportedly requesting a... <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/weekly-print/november-6-2026/">Read More</a>

Gal Gadot to bring Golodryga and Levi's ‘Don’t Feed the Lion’ to the big screen

Gal Gadot and her husband, Jaron Varsano, are teaming up with FOX Entertainment Studios and the media arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center to bring Don’t Feed the Lion, a book about antisemitism and Jewish identity for middle schoolers by journalists Bianna Golodryga and Yonit Levi, to the big screen. The film, announced on Wednesday... <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/11/lehrhaus-bostons-jewish-tavern-and-house-of-learning-is-coming-to-d-c/">Read More</a>

GOP senators reject Vance’s Iran war blame

Republican senators push back against VP Vance’s midterm analysis, while diplomatic tensions with Iran intensify as the administration maneuvers through war policy, funding deadlines, and global political shifts.

Former Trump official Josh Gruenbaum says elite college presidents privately welcomed admin pressure

Josh Gruenbaum, a former Trump administration official who was involved in the federal government’s pressure campaign against universities over campus antisemitism, claimed in a new podcast interview that several prominent university presidents and trustees privately welcomed the administration’s approach as a way to push back against faculty resistance to institutional reforms. “I could think off... <a href="">Read More</a>

GOP senators skeptical of Vance’s post-election analysis blaming Israel, Iran war

Republican senators reacted skeptically to Vice President JD Vance’s assessment that the GOP’s midterm losses were a sign of voters’ desire for the party to end the war in Iran and rethink its relationship with Israel. Vance wrote last week that it was “obvious to almost everyone” that voters flipped to Democrats in the election... <a href="">Read More</a>