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Jonathan Salant

Jonathan D. Salant

Jonathan D. Salant has been a Washington correspondent for more than 35 years and has worked for such outlets as Newhouse News Service, the Associated Press, Bloomberg News, NJ Advance Media and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. A former president of the National Press Club, he was inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists D.C. chapter’s Journalism Hall of Fame in 2023.

US Capitol Congress DC
U.S. News
House unanimously approves annual Jewish US Heritage Month resolution
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told JNS that it was “really important” to pass the measure, “given the explosive rise in antisemitism,” including violent attacks.
May 13, 2026
Jonathan D. Salant
Josh Gottheimer
U.S. News
Gottheimer leads Dem effort to force Trump to get congressional approval for war against Iran
“I want to destroy their nuclear programs, their ballistic missile program, their drone programs and their terrorist proxy programs,” the congressman said of Iran. “But that said, you can’t leave the United States Congress in the dark any longer.”
May 13, 2026
Jonathan D. Salant
US Capitol Congress
U.S. News
House holds discussion on annual resolution for Jewish US Heritage Month
“These are not just numbers on a page but are lived experience of all Jewish Americans,” Rep. Brad Knott said, of Jew-hatred, on the House floor.
May 12, 2026
Jonathan D. Salant
Brad Cohen
U.S. News
Proud Jew has raised second most cash in Dem primary for NJ 12th district after anti-Israel, Egyptian American doctor
“I believe very much in the state of Israel and its right to exist,” East Brunswick mayor Brad Cohen told JNS. “It’s critical to me that it remains a Jewish state in the Middle East.”
May 9, 2026
Jonathan D. Salant
An Israeli flag is fixed to a street sign as police stand by off Pearl Street at the scene of an attack on demonstrators calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, in Boulder, Colo., on June 1, 2025. Credit: Eli Imadali/AFP via Getty Images.
U.S. News
Boulder firebomber sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole, 2,128 years for murder and 100 others charges for antisemitic attack
“Today we’ve seen the defendant held fully accountable and fully responsible for the horrific hate crime that he committed and the act of antisemitism he committed,” said Michael Dougherty, Boulder County district attorney.
May 7, 2026
Jonathan D. Salant, Jessica Russak-Hoffman
NYPD New York City Police Counter Terror
U.S. News
Jew-hatred in America a ‘trend, not blips on a screen,’ experts say after ADL releases audit of incidents
“We are more scared than ever,” Jewish activist Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi told JNS. “Despite the overall reduction in the number of instances, the severity of instances is terrifying.”
May 6, 2026
Jonathan D. Salant
J.B. Pritzker
U.S. News
Jew-hatred not OK, even if you hate Netanyahu, Pritzker tells magazine
The Jewish governor of Illinois, widely thought to be a candidate for president, accused the Israeli prime minister of making it “near-impossible” to obtain peace.
May 5, 2026
Jonathan D. Salant
John Sterling Getty
U.S. News
John Sterling, Jewish Yankees ‘radio legend,’ dies at 87
“He informed and entertained generations of fans with a theatrical and unapologetic style that was uniquely his own,” the New York Yankees stated.
May 4, 2026
Jonathan D. Salant
Capital Jewish Museum
U.S. News
Jewish museum, site of murder of Israeli embassy staffers, among those to get $120,000 in DC security funds
“What made it easy for the D.C. government to do this is that they already had an existing standing program,” Ron Halber, CEO of the JCRC of Greater Washington, told JNS.
May 1, 2026
Jonathan D. Salant
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks to reporters after passage of a U.S. Department of Homeland Security funding bill at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2026. Credit: Graeme Sloan/Getty Images.
U.S. News
Trump signs bill into law funding most of DHS, ending 76-day partial shutdown
“A lot of people working without the certainty of pay working, previously, literally without pay. It’s a really big deal,” Rep. Brian Mast told JNS.
April 30, 2026
Jonathan D. Salant
March of the Living
World News
Amid rising Jew-hatred, thousands march at Auschwitz on Holocaust memorial day
“We are becoming that legacy, we’re becoming that memory and it’s becoming our responsibility, our obligation to carry that memory on,” a Conservative rabbi from Charleston told JNS.
April 14, 2026
Jonathan D. Salant, Etgar Lefkovits
Boy Scouts
Feature
Some 60 years after joining Boy Scouts, Ricky Mason is its first Jewish board chair in half a century
“My mother told me I was gonna do it, and so that was sort of enough for me,” he told JNS of becoming an Eagle Scout.
April 10, 2026
Jonathan D. Salant
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