‘So important to teach American Jews what it is to be Israeli,’ Elan Carr says The CEO of the Israeli American Council told JNS about being on the front lines of the fight to protect Jews on American campuses, in Congress and elsewhere. Alex Traiman Aug. 12, 2024
Nevada’s higher education system becomes the first to vote to adopt IHRA definition of antisemitism The definition will be used for bias education and training. Dec. 5, 2022
New Mexico adopts IHRA definition of anti-Semitism Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a first-in-the-nation executive order establishing the definition as the legal standard for determining when unlawful discriminatory conduct is motivated by anti-Semitism. Aug. 17, 2022
Israeli-Palestinian heated narrative shifts from American colleges to public schools A pro-Israel organization seeks to educate those at the state and local levels in an attempt not only to fend off BDS in middle and high schools, but to build cultural bridges. Mike Wagenheim March 9, 2022
The IAC is transforming the status of Israeli Americans It took time, but the Israelis have arrived in America. They have paid their due. And with the challenges that American Jewry and Israel now face, this burgeoning group may have emerged at exactly the right time. Alex Traiman Dec. 10, 2019
Israeli-American advocacy org appoints new director “Israeli Americans have an important, unique and growing voice in the public sphere,” said IAC for Action executive director Jonathan Harris. June 7, 2018