June 15, 2018 Daily Kickoff: US expected to withdraw from UN Human Rights Council | Natalie Portman on former friend Jared Kushner | The Herring Trade War of 1877
June 14, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Sessions upset with Kushner’s pardon push | WeWork raising again | CNN’s Jeff Zucker extended through 2020 | UJA honors Troy Carter
June 13, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Kushner to tour Middle East next week | Will Trump’s base allow him to force concessions from Bibi? | What Dr. Ruth told Dr. Kissinger
June 12, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Experts on North Korea summit; comparing and contrasting with the Iran deal | Beinart on expecting a ‘radical’ Bernie on Israel in 2020
June 11, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Deep dive on the new Trump — Bibi era | Report: Kushner was concerned with Embassy move | Shai Babad on meeting Warren Buffett
June 8, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Unique instructions for Bibi’s flight crew | Why Bernie won’t endorse his son’s campaign | George Soros and the Triple Crown
June 7, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Bibi on BBC declares the Iran deal dead | Rudy Giuliani’s viral dance at Machneyuda | BHL’s new play | BDays: Les Crown, Wendy Sherman
June 6, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Inside Jan Koum’s expensive split from Facebook | Nick Muzin no longer representing Qatar | Uproar over Argentina’s ‘friendly’ snub
June 5, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Giuliani says he’s seen Trump’s peace plan | Schultz 2020 talk | HBO to produce series on Mossad | BDay: Bob Kraft
June 4, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Younger Evangelicals less supportive of Israel than older generation | Greene running for FL Gov | Profile: Snack King Daniel Lubetzky
June 1, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Will Dems make Iran a 2018 election issue? | Trump weighs putting Jerusalem Consulate for Palestinians under David Friedman’s control
May 31, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Drama around no Dems at Jerusalem Embassy opening continues | Inside the Kushner-Christie rivalry | Bob Iger’s strategy on Trump
May 30, 2018 Daily Kickoff: The Kim Kardashian Kushner Summit | Charles Bronfman on Bibi, Sheldon | ‘Roseanne’ reactions | Howard Schultz on running in 2020
May 29, 2018 Daily Kickoff: House Dems accuse Trump administration of ‘effort to politicize’ support for Israel | Did Trump ask Bibi to go on Harvey Levin’s show?
May 25, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Some Never-Trumpers quietly align with moderate Dems | Norm Coleman on why he now supports Trump | Inside ESPN’s struggles
May 24, 2018 Daily Kickoff: U.S. may soon recognize Israeli control of Golan, according to Israeli Minister | Kushner gets clearance | Stu Eizenstat defends Carter
May 23, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Deep in the desert, Iran continuing its long-range missile program | Fauda Season 2 | Remembering Philip Roth | BDay: Norm Brownstein
May 22, 2018 Daily Kickoff: “Devout Christians are backbone” of U.S. support for Israel says Israel’s ambassador | The Impossible Burger is now kosher certified
May 18, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Joe Lieberman on law and Shavuot | Redstone vs Moonves continues | Elon Musk’s Boring talk at synagogue…
May 17, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Trump peace plan relies on Arab leaders pushing the Palestinians, Dennis Ross says | How MBS made his billions | WeWork buys MissionU
May 16, 2018 Cuomo postpones Israel trip | Interview with Sen. Dean Heller | Mike Bloomberg’s new Davos | Jami Gertz, star of the NBA Draft Lottery
May 15, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Front pages focus on Jerusalem, Gaza | Spotted in DC & Jerusalem | How Dan Loeb helps fund his critics | Next JFNA Chair: Mark Wilf
May 14, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Scene in Jerusalem for Embassy opening; Republican Senators on lack of Dems | Profile: Mark Dubowitz | Tepper set to buy NFL’s Panthers
May 11, 2018 Daily Kickoff: What we’ve learned about the Natalie Portman and Genesis Prize Foundation saga | Dershowitz, explained | Profile: 76ers’ Michael Rubin
May 10, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Why Ari Emanuel is now advocating for Mel Gibson | Adelson’s $30M to GOP; Dem donors form alliance | A Muslim among Israeli settlers
May 9, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Reactions to Trump’s Iran decision — “If you live by the Presidency, you die by the Presidency”| Remembering winemaker Leslie Rudd
May 8, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Decision day for Trump on Iran deal | Jason Greenblatt and Ron Lauder’s NYC meetup | Axelrod’s Sandy Koufax advice for Cory Booker
May 7, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Israeli firm Black Cube back in news, this time for snooping on Obama aides | McCain regrets not picking Lieberman for VP | Met Gala
May 4, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Will Pompeo be able to hire Never Trumpers? | Joe Lieberman would sooner back Bernie than Elizabeth Warren | Giro D’Italia B’Israel
May 3, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Did Israeli F-15s pretend to be US planes in Syria? | NYT Editorial calls for Abbas to go | The woman tasked with cleaning up the NFL
May 2, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Which Israel celebration will Trump attend? | JINSA visits Cairo | Saban sells Power Rangers | Dan Gilbert and the ‘Heter Iska’ issue
May 1, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Debating what’s new after Israel’s daring raid of Tehran warehouse | WhatsApp founder Jan Koum stepping down | BDay: Abe Foxman
April 30, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Netanyahu to deliver ‘big speech’ on Iran today | When Qatar paid Iran’s Soleimani a $50M ransom | Milken Scene | Bob Dylan’s whiskey
April 27, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Pompeo’s weekend includes Jerusalem stop | When Trump humiliated Michael Cohen at son’s bar mitzvah | The new Israeli CEO of Mattel
April 26, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Why Justice Kagan used the anti-Semitic president hypothetical | Bob Iger vs. Brian Roberts | Spotted in the Wadi Rum Desert
April 25, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Israel’s Defense Minister arrives in DC | Supreme Court conservatives rule against Israeli victims | The Rabbi who changed Obamacare
April 24, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Did Natalie Portman intend to take a public stand on Israel? | Alex Soros interview | Jake Tapper on new novel | Putin’s matzah diet
April 23, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Mnuchin to lead delegation for Jerusalem Embassy opening | Inside Koch’s funding of Stephen Walt | Madoff’s surprise contribution
April 20, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Jerusalem-born Natalie Portman pulls out of Israel award citing ‘distressing recent events’ | How Michael Lynton became Snap Chairman
April 19, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Israelis Gal Gadot & Adam Neumann on Time 100 | Inside Rexit | Vaynerchuk & Oseary team up | The men smoking cigars with Michael Cohen
April 18, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Israel at 70 — Jeffrey Goldberg on the Jewish community’s dilemma | Women’s March Leader: Boycott Starbucks over ADL partnership
April 17, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Saudis start distancing from Trump — on Jerusalem, Syria… | Heard at J Street | Does the NFL care that Josh Rosen is Jewish?
April 16, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Mr. Steinhardt, tell em how you really feel! | Klarman now funding Dems | Israel’s next super fruit | BDays: Ron Dermer, Tony Blinken
April 13, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Bob Iger on running for office | Jon Lerner promoted | GOP mega-donor Sam Fox calls Gov Greitens ‘a disgrace’ | John Paulson’s tax bill
April 12, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Israel caught in US – Russia rift | Moonves vs. Redstone | What’s become of Isaac Lee’s media empire | How diamonds shape NYC’s skyline
April 11, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Dershowitz’s day at WH: Advice on Middle East.. & Mueller? | J Street’s dinner list | Artichoke War: Rome’s Jews vs. Israel’s Rabbinate
April 10, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Zuckerberg’s day on the Hill | Richest Russians lose $12B | Brooks on ‘the failures of anti-Trumpism’ | Cheryl Saban’s glass blowing
April 9, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Post-Passover catch up | Israel strikes Syria amid report Bibi struck out convincing Trump to stay | Casspi cut | BDay: Jeff Zucker
March 29, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Passover Long-Reads | ‘Orthodox Jews’ now the ‘moderates’ in the White House, Kushner jokes | Yitz’s Passover Wine Picks
March 28, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Kissinger, Oprah, Jeff Goldberg, AIPAC score MBS meetings | Trump hosts Chabad | Soros’ local efforts | Delta-themed rabbinic wedding
March 27, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Exclusive — MBS to meet with Jewish leaders today in NYC | Broidy sues Muzin | How Trump’s vendetta could end up helping Zucker’s CNN
March 26, 2018 Daily Kickoff: MBS’ Hollywood meetings | Barry Diller on the state of things | How Broidy made millions on Trump access | The Rabbi & The Labor Leader
March 23, 2018 Daily Kickoff: ‘Bolton bombshell’ | Josh Kushner’s planned interview | Zucker on Fox News: “State-Run TV” | Relatives Ben-Gurion & Les Moonves honored
March 22, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Who convinced Trump to fire Tillerson? | Toobin vs. Dershowitz | Watch Roman Abramovich intercept a drone | Wolf Blitzer turns 7-0
March 21, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Taylor Force Act added to omnibus bill, ensuring its passage | RJC ‘disgusted’ with Republican primary winner | King of the Mitzvahs
March 20, 2018 Daily Kickoff: How Jared & MBS forged a bond | Gary Cohn was headed to CIA | Dershowitz vs. Cynthia Nixon | Pardo’s new firm | Jewish deli in Tokyo
March 19, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Ron Lauder on ‘Israel’s Self-Inflicted Wounds’ | Saudis invest in Ari Emanuel’s Endeavor | The challenge of writing Jewish history
March 16, 2018 Daily Kickoff: When the next Goldman head turned down Sheldon Adelson | Bibi’s Newsweek cover | Dermer back to Israel? | The Mooch on Jewish culture
March 15, 2018 Daily Kickoff: What’s holding up the Taylor Force Act in Congress | Bolton joining the Trump admin? | The Qatar ransom that reshaped the Middle East
March 14, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Interview with the ‘Hin-Jew’ in Congress | Zakheim, Indyk on Pompeo | Inside the WH Summit on Gaza | BDay: Jerry of Ben & Jerry
March 13, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Trump fires Tillerson | Paul Singer’s philosophy towards philanthropy | Larry Page’s flying taxis | Goldman’s next head: D.J. D-Sol.
March 12, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Trump’s peace plan — DOA? | Ben Falk, the Smartest Basketball Mind Outside the NBA | The Women’s March + Farrakhan | BDay: Jake Tapper
March 9, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Haim Saban & Jared Kushner had more to discuss than Mideast peace | Adelson to sell Sands Bethlehem | Dan Koh profile | Shabbat at SXSW
March 8, 2018 Daily Kickoff: At dinner with Bibi, George W. Bush criticizes heads of state who say they’re indispensable | BDay: Rabbi Lord Sacks
March 7, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Israel contemplates a future without Bibi | JI Interview with Rabbi Rick Jacobs | Holocaust Museum revokes award to Aung San Suu Kyi
March 6, 2018 Daily Kickoff: “The most pro- … President in American history” | Senate Dems back Taylor Force Act at AIPAC | Elliott Broidy accuses Qatar of hacking his email
March 5, 2018 Daily Kickoff: Israeli right and Jewish left criticizes AIPAC’s stand on two-states | Haim Saban visits Javanka for Purim | Zuckerberg’s hamantashen
March 2, 2018 Daily Kickoff: “Mr. Trump is also frustrated with Mr. Kushner” | Purim at the White House | AIPAC official previews conference | YU’s big game today
February 28, 2018 Daily Kickoff: AIPAC’s delicate balance | Howard Schultz says no to 2020 | Brutal news cycle for Kushner | The team behind the Mueller Risk Index
