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
November 30, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Ramifications of the ambush in Iran + An interview with incoming Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez
November 25, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Axios’s Jonathan Swan on migrating to the Biden beat + A look back at Mayor Dinkins and the Jewish community
November 24, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Assessing Biden’s foreign policy picks + Micah Goodman’s new book ‘The Wondering Jew’
November 23, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Bibi’s secret visit to Saudi Arabia + An interview with Darrell Issa as he returns to Congress
November 20, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Will Biden call up Dr. Mandy Cohen to run Health and Human Services? + Deportation of Nazi guard in Tennessee to proceed
November 19, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Who will be Biden’s ambassador to Israel? + The Tel Aviv startup Hillary Clinton uses for her podcast
November 18, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Changing of the Guard — Eliot Engel reflects on 32 years + Kathy Manning eyes Foreign Affairs Committee slot
November 17, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Israeli Diaspora Minister Omer Yankelevitch shares her vision + Inside Bonnie Glick’s ousting from USAID
November 16, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Madison Cawthorn goes to Washington + FIDF’s challenges in a pandemic-stricken world
November 13, 2020 Daily Kickoff: What Barack Obama’s new memoir has to say about Netanyahu and AIPAC + Meet Indiana’s Fady Qaddoura
November 12, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Ron Klain’s inspiration from the 10 plagues + The Armenian and Azerbaijani ambassadors on their recent conflict
November 11, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Israel’s Madam Ambassador in Egypt + The Cuban-Jewish contender to run Biden’s DHS
November 10, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Raphael Warnock’s views on Israel — then and now + Kamala’s replacement in the Senate
November 9, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Remembering Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks + Experts on a Biden admin’s approach to the Middle East
November 6, 2020 Daily Kickoff: The letter Raphael Warnock signed after visiting Israel + Backers of bipartisanship pleased with the week
November 5, 2020 Daily Kickoff: The races that remain too close to call + Texas’s Tony Gonzales on heading to Washington
November 4, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Why Democrats lost South Florida + A rundown of House and Senate results
November 3, 2020 Daily Kickoff: An Election Day guide + The Silicon Valley VC who decamped to Wisconsin
November 2, 2020 Daily Kickoff: ‘Tehran’ actress Liraz Charhi + A look at Rose vs. Malliotakis in NY11 and Shalala vs. Salazar in Miami Beach
October 30, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Marilyn Strickland vs. Beth Doglio in Washington State + When voters meet on WhatsApp
October 29, 2020 Daily Kickoff: In the San Diego race between Ammar Campa-Najjar and Darrell Issa, a spotlight on Israel in the closing days
October 28, 2020 Daily Kickoff: An interview with Tony Blinken + Why is Matt Lieberman still running in Georgia?
October 27, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Bunker busters to Israel? There’s a new House bill + Running as a Hinchey in upstate New York
October 26, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Justice Dems boosted this congressional candidate until she disagreed with them on Israel
October 23, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Rep. Jeff Van Drew on why he switched parties + Reactions to last night’s debate
October 22, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Rep. Susie Lee faces a wrestler in Vegas re-election fight + Behind the scenes of ‘Surge’
October 21, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Election predictions from Dave Wasserman + Howard Mortman’s new book on rabbis addressing Congress
October 19, 2020 Daily Kickoff: The 2020 campaign trail converges on a Jewish day school dinner in Detroit
October 16, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Barbara Amiel lays it all out in new book + Interview with Manhattan DA candidate Lucy Lang
October 14, 2020 Daily Kickoff: An interview with Harry Reid + Talia Lavin goes undercover in the dark web
October 13, 2020 Daily Kickoff: With three weeks until Election Day, the key House and Senate races to watch
October 9, 2020 Daily Kickoff: A look at the race for Los Angeles district attorney + Gad Saad on the parasitic mind
October 6, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Meet the woman responsible for Snapchat registering more than 1 million voters this year
October 2, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Following Rabin event fallout, examining AOC’s reluctance to engage with New York Jewish groups
October 1, 2020 Daily Kickoff: This Jersey political scion is keen to go to Washington + How Guy Raz built his podcast
September 30, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Heard on the JI webcast with Emirati ambassadors + The unpresidential debate
September 29, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Legislators worldwide to team up to fight online antisemitism + Ali Rogin’s book on women beating cancer
September 25, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Interview with Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan + California’s ethnic studies controversy
September 24, 2020 Daily Kickoff: The 18-minute Supreme Court ceremony for Ruth Bader Ginsburg + Maison Kayser expands to Israel amid the pandemic
September 23, 2020 Daily Kickoff: 25-year-old Madison Cawthorn says he wants to be the GOP’s AOC + Gottheimer’s resolution on Palestinian payments
September 22, 2020 Daily Kickoff: New Israeli thriller ‘Tehran’ premieres in America this week — an interview with the cast and creator
September 18, 2020 Daily Kickoff: The Ambassador Edition — Ron Dermer reflects on D.C. tenure + UAE Ambassadors to join Jewish Insider webcast
September 17, 2020 Daily Kickoff: Meet the Nonoos, a prominent Bahraini Jewish family making waves around the world
