A candidate for U.S. Senate is under fire for comments alleging that the “Jewish lobby” controls the Republican Party. Republican Senate hopeful Jason Lewis, the current frontrunner to challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Tina Smith in Minnesota next November, made the comments in 2013 on a radio show he hosted at the time. The comments were… Read More

Tell your friends to sign up for the Daily Kickoff here or for early 7AM access via Debut Inbox JI INTERVIEW — The woman tasked with keeping New York’s Jews safe — by JI’s Jacob Kornbluh: Deborah Lauter, executive director of the newly created New York City Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, told Jewish Insider that the city’s Jewish… Read More

The U.S. Department of Education blasted a joint Middle Eastern studies program between the University of North Carolina and Duke University for providing a biased curriculum to students. The department ordered UNC’s vice chancellor for research to provide an updated curriculum for the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies (CEMS) in order for the program… Read More

Victims of Iran’s global terror network are receiving a portion of more than $28 million in assets following the sale of Iranian properties in Toronto and Ottawa, per a recent Canadian court decision. Plaintiffs included the family of Marla Bennett, an American killed in the 2002 Hebrew University bombing, and Edward Tracy and Joseph Cicippio,… Read More

Newly appointed Women’s March board member Zahra Billoo has been voted off the national board after her past controversial statements were revealed.  In a Twitter thread on Thursday, Billoo claimed to have been the subject of “an Islamophobic smear campaign led by the usual antagonists, who have long targeted me, my colleagues, and anyone else… Read More