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Michigan brewery apologizes for hosting Stevens campaign event, citing her support for Israel
A Michigan cider brewery where Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) hosted a campaign event the night before the state’s Senate primary election issued a statement saying they regretted hosting the event,…
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Democrats plan to boycott Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Muslim Brotherhood
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Federal Courts subcommittee said on Tuesday that they plan to boycott a subcommittee hearing on Wednesday set to examine Muslim Brotherhood networks in the United States. The Democrats — Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Alex Padilla (D-CA) and Peter Welch (D-VT) — dismissed the... <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/08/ron-dermer-israel-on-campus-coalition-international-relations/">Read More</a>
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4mDSA'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. 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>
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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. “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>
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19mHigh stakes in the Great Lakes
This briefing covers surging antisemitic hate crimes in New York, pivotal primary elections across the U.S., security aid challenges, and key developments in the U.S.-Israel diplomatic relationship.
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6mNonprofit 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>