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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.

U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
U.S. News
Some but not all AIPAC-backed candidates win Illinois primaries
“Campaigns defined largely by opposition to AIPAC, our members and the values we represent continue to fall short on election night,” the pro-Israel group said.
Mar. 18, 2026
Jonathan D. Salant
Baseball
U.S. News
Team Israel hopes its improvement at WBC draws more interest in team in future
Mar. 12, 2026
Jonathan D. Salant
Baseball
U.S. News
Team Israel wins again, surpasses prior records though it won’t advance in World Baseball Classic
Mar. 11, 2026
Jonathan D. Salant
Annapolis
U.S. News
Despite Jewish candidate, Annapolis mayoral race has local focus, not Israel
GOP candidate Bobby O’Shea told JNS that he’s not taking unsolicited advice to attack his Jewish opponent on Israel, because “I am not going to stoop to that level.”
Nov. 3, 2025
Jonathan D. Salant
Matt Brooks
U.S. News
‘Clearly have antisemitism element of our party,’ McCormick says at RJC
“It’s a very small minority, but we have to confront it,” the Republican senator told JNS. “It’s never in my opinion appropriate to give platform, to give license, to people who are explicitly pro-Hitler, pro-Nazi, explicitly antisemitic.”
Nov. 2, 2025
Jonathan D. Salant
Randy Fine RJC
U.S. News
‘No future in my office’ for Heritage Foundation, Randy Fine says at RJC
“I will be calling on all of my colleagues on the Republican side to do the same,” the Jewish congressman said.
Nov. 1, 2025
Jonathan D. Salant
Ted Cruz
U.S. News
At Republican Jewish event in Vegas, Cruz denounces Carlson after Heritage president defends him
“If you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very, very cool,” Cruz said, “and you say nothing, then you are a coward and you are complicit.”
Oct. 31, 2025
Jonathan D. Salant
US Capitol Congress
Israel News
Even in divided DC, bipartisan support for Trump’s peace plan
“People are ready for some kind of promise of an agreement to feel hopeful and even jubilant,” Ross Baker, a distinguished professor emeritus at Rutgers, told JNS.
Oct. 12, 2025
Jonathan D. Salant
Josh Gottheimer
Israel News
Gottheimer unveils three bills related to Oct. 7
“It’s hard to believe that it’s been two years,” the Jewish Democrat said outside the U.S. Capitol.
Oct. 9, 2025
Jonathan D. Salant
Josh Gottheimer, Edan Alexander
Israel News
‘Never would have imagined,’ freed hostage says of NJ street named in his honor
“Every time I see this road, I will remember not just the struggle but the love and unity that brought me back home,” Edan Alexander said.
Sep. 30, 2025
Jonathan D. Salant
Israeli US flags
U.S. News
War against Hamas has ‘ground down’ US popular support for Israel, poll suggests
Some 47% of respondents to a new Quinnipiac University poll said that supporting Israel is in the U.S. national interest, down significantly from the 69% who said that in December 2023.
Sep. 26, 2025
Jonathan D. Salant
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