March 18, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Interview with ‘The Macher’ Terry McAuliffe + How Yesh Atid’s Karine Elharrar is approaching next week’s election
March 17, 2021 Daily Kickoff: The Marine behind Compass Coffee + Calling all Yiddishists — Duolingo to debut Yiddish courses next month
March 16, 2021 Daily Kickoff: The race to replace Rep. Deb Haaland in New Mexico + The latest on California’s proposed ethnic studies curriculum
March 15, 2021 Daily Kickoff: At 80, Canada’s Irwin Cotler is busier than ever + Michael Oren on how Bibi is like Hamas when it comes to elections
March 12, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Rep. Ro Khanna draws criticism from multiple sides on Israel. He plans to keep at it + How D.C. kosher restaurants are faring
March 11, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Bibi’s 4th attempted UAE visit canceled + The next generation leader of Israel’s liberal right wing
March 10, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Interview with Congresswoman Grace Meng + 70 Ds, 70 Rs sign bipartisan Iran deal letter
March 9, 2021 Daily Kickoff: ‘2034’ imagines World War III 13 years from now + Rep. Claudia Tenney on her return to Congress
March 8, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Schumer on nonpublic school assistance in latest COVID relief bill + Ben Kallos’s path to run for Manhattan borough president
March 5, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Duss sticking with Sanders + Kathryn Garcia on cleaning up New York City
March 4, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand talks Jewish community, Iran and Cuomo on JI’s Limited Liability Podcast
March 3, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Interview with Naftali Bennett, Israel’s next kingmaker? + Haggadah shel superheroes
March 2, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Iran, ICC letters circulating on Capitol Hill + Blinken embraces full IHRA definition
March 1, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Interview with Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Alex Lasry + The politics of overseas votes and Ben-Gurion Airport’s closure
February 25, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Scott Stringer’s balancing act + Howard Wolfson and Sally Goldenberg on JI’s podcast
February 24, 2021 Daily Kickoff: What’s going on at NBC? + Filmmaker Maya Zinshtein spotlights Israeli-evangelical ties
February 23, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Final days of the Nazi-hunting era? + Tufts student alleges antisemitism
February 22, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Interview with NYC mayoral candidate Eric Adams + SNL’s Michael Che under fire for ‘Weekend Update’ vaccine jab
February 19, 2021 Daily Kickoff: North Carolina’s lieutenant governor has Jewish community alarmed + Barak Ravid joins JI’s podcast, predicts a 5th Israeli election
February 18, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Ohio 11th special election candidates complete JI’s questionnaire + De Blasio calls Israel ‘a fundamentally progressive concept’
February 17, 2021 Daily Kickoff: The Jewish conference circuit comes to Clubhouse + A dispatch from frigid Dallas
February 16, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Josh Mandel on his latest Senate run + Trump attorney David Schoen takes us behind the scenes
February 11, 2021 Daily Kickoff: A special election to watch in Ohio + An interview with Merav Michaeli, the new head of Israel’s Labor Party
February 10, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Florida’s Lauren Book eyeing statewide office + Rep. Luria’s conditions for coming to the table with Iran
February 9, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Malinowski’s foreign affairs mantle + The Substack rabbi spreading Torah
February 8, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Why Warren and Carper voted against the Jerusalem Embassy amendment + Irina Nevzlin on Beit Hatfutsot’s future
February 5, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Sol Werdiger’s Super Bowl traditions + California’s Jesse Gabriel joins JI’s Limited Liability Podcast
February 3, 2021 Daily Kickoff: The values of Virginia House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn + For Alvin Bragg, police reform is personal
February 2, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Interview with Gideon Sa’ar, Israel’s new hope? + Marty Baron reflects on his storied career
February 1, 2021 Daily Kickoff: The California ethnic studies controversy explained + Madison Cawthorn’s Jewish outreach efforts
January 29, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Rep. Mike Gallagher joins JI’s Limited Liability Podcast + What do you use your ‘Jewish space lasers’ for?
January 28, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Daniella Levine Cava, the first Jewish mayor of Miami-Dade County + Malliotakis defends Cheney, calls for GOP unity
January 26, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Congressman Trey Hollingsworth on his own terms + Before she was the inaugural poet, Amanda Gorman was a Milken scholar
January 25, 2021 Daily Kickoff: As Biden readies to reengage the U.N., Jewish groups raise concerns + The Nigun Quartet marries jazz with Hasidic melodies
January 22, 2021 Daily Kickoff: JI acquires philanthropy publication + Dan Shapiro and Danielle Pletka join the podcast to discuss the big week in Washington
January 21, 2021 Daily Kickoff: The woman behind Bernie’s viral mittens + Chuck Todd on covering the inauguration in a turbulent D.C
January 20, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Rob Malley being considered for special envoy on Iran + What Blinken and Mayorkas told the Senate yesterday
January 19, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Questions for Tony Blinken today + The spies who prevented the Nazis from reaching Palestine
January 18, 2021 Daily Kickoff: South Florida federations see fundraising gains with new full-time residents + Party primaries in Israel
January 15, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Jewish Insider’s new podcast + Inside Air Adelson — Sheldon’s personal fleet of planes for friends and causes
January 14, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Jewish groups lobby Biden on IHRA’s working definition of antisemitism + Samantha Power is back
January 13, 2021 Daily Kickoff: What Hoosiers think Mike Pence should do next + The former U.S. congressman who got the vaccine in Israel
January 12, 2021 Daily Kickoff: The Israeli who predicted the Capitol riot + Federations are dipping into their endowments to survive the pandemic
January 11, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Fallout from the Capitol siege continues + A new fashion brand called ‘bubuleh’
January 8, 2021 Daily Kickoff: How Israelis are reckoning with Trump’s behavior + In 2013, the Senate sergeant-at-arms proposed a perimeter fence; he was turned down
January 7, 2021 Daily Kickoff: JI’s congressional correspondent on covering the Capitol under siege + Merrick Garland’s law clerks on his DOJ nomination
January 6, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Georgia Dem sweep likely + When Howard Rubenstein created a Soviet Jewry PR splash in the East River
January 5, 2021 Daily Kickoff: All eyes on Georgia’s runaway runoffs 🍑 + Inside the 11th-hour passage of the antisemitism envoy bill
January 4, 2021 Daily Kickoff: Can Ray McGuire rescue NYC? An interview with the mayoral hopeful + The latest on Israel’s election scene
December 24, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Inside the billion-dollar runoff races in Georgia + Zoom fatigue? Jewish groups claim they’re immune
December 23, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Catching up with Rufus Gifford, Biden’s deputy campaign manager + SJP loses Fordham University lawsuit
December 22, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Interview with Hungary’s new ambassador in D.C. + What’s included in the new congressional spending bill
December 21, 2020 Daily Kickoff: 🇨🇦 Edition — Amb. Marcy Grossman is Canada’s woman on the ground in the Emirates + Annamie Paul, the new Green Party leader
December 18, 2020 Daily Kickoff: California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis is on the rise + An interview with former Sen. Chris Dodd
December 17, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Examining end-of-term presidential appointments to Holocaust museum board + The Lox Club’s dating cure
December 16, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Interview with SNL’s Chloe Fineman + A new candidate emerges to be Biden’s ambassador to Israel
December 15, 2020 Daily Kickoff: New York restaurants brace for long, harsh winter after indoor dining nixed
December 14, 2020 Daily Kickoff: The students behind @JewishOnCampus + Authors of Saudi books weigh in on the country’s next steps with Israel
December 11, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Why Biden donated $180k to Chicago’s Jewish federation + Jessica Haller on her NYC Council candidacy
December 10, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries on the state of his party + Trump skips his afternoon Hanukkah party
December 9, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Meet MilkStrip, founded by Israeli scientist moms + What Tony Blinken wrote at The Harvard Crimson
December 8, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Maria Elvira Salazar brings her ‘Freedom Force’ to D.C. + Supreme Court considers two Holocaust restitution cases
December 7, 2020 Daily Kickoff: JI’s December gift guide + A look back at Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education
December 4, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Harry Sloan of MGM fame on his political pivot + Shimon Peres’ aide pulls back the curtain in new memoir
December 3, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Mondaire Jones on his new role with House leadership + RBG’s granddaughter remembers ‘Bubbie’
December 2, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Rep. Brendan Boyle backed Biden early and often — what’s next for him? + Meeks the favorite for Foreign Affairs chair
December 1, 2020 Daily Kickoff: When Tony Blinken and Tom Malinowski played JCC soccer + The future of the National Museum of American Jewish History