Jewish groups congratulate Trump, look forward to working with him “America’s new Golden Age begins now,” the Republican Jewish Coalition stated. “America is back.” Izzy Salant Jan. 20, 2025
Mixed responses from American Jewish groups to hostage deal “This isn’t ‘peace through strength,’” Mort Klein, of ZOA, told JNS. “It is heartbreaking and infuriating and frightening that Israel’s government is agreeing to this deal.” Izzy Salant Jan. 15, 2025
Jewish groups mourn death of Olga Washington, Christian Zionist and staunch Israel supporter “She always talked about the day when she would finally hear the applause of Heaven for the life she lived. That day is today,” wrote her husband, Joshua Washington. Izzy Salant Jan. 7, 2025
Jewish groups, political leaders ‘shocked and outraged’ by murder of rabbi in UAE “Our hearts and prayers are with his wife—a native New Yorker—his entire family and the Jewish community who is grieving right now,” said New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Nov. 25, 2024
Should Jewish groups defend the nonprofit status of terror supporters? Instead of fighting antisemitism, many Jewish liberals are still falsely accusing Trump and opposing conservative efforts to stop Jew-haters and terrorists. Jonathan S. Tobin Nov. 22, 2024
‘Shameful stain’: Jewish groups slam ICC warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant B’nai B’rith asked why the court hasn’t sought to arrest “the genocide-seeking rulers of Iran engineering atrocities, conflict and human misery throughout the region and beyond.” JNS Staff Nov. 21, 2024
Use ‘upward pressure’ on US Jewish groups ‘hesitant’ to push for release of hostages, families urge “There’s not enough acknowledgment that having American hostages in Gaza and having American citizens murdered in Israel … is a national security threat for the United States,” Lihi Moskow said at the Jewish Federations General Assembly in Washington, D.C. Mike Wagenheim Nov. 12, 2024
Maryland Jewish groups receive nearly $1 million to support crime victims Gov. Wes Moore said the funds help in “getting convictions, closing cases and restoring trust between our communities and the forces sworn to protect them.” Oct. 21, 2024
On Yom Kippur, the Jewish establishment should come clean Jewish activists told them, warned them and begged them to defend the community from media bias and anti-Israel educators. Charles Jacobs Oct. 10, 2024
