Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart argued that the moderate Democratic center of the Jewish community is collapsing, a move that will ultimately shift the future of pro-Israel advocacy.

Beinart spoke on Wednesday during a virtual panel event hosted by the Arab Center Washington DC — alongside Foundation for Middle East Peace President Lara Friedman, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi and Carnegie Endowment fellow Zaha Hassan — about shifting demographic and political dynamics within the U.S. on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

New York University has reached an agreement with the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) following a complaint filed on behalf of an NYU student that cited numerous instances of antisemitic activity on the campus.

The agreement is the first resolution at an American university since an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in December 2019 added antisemitism to the list of forms of discrimination prohibited by Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden repeatedly talked over each other and traded personal insults in the first televised presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio, last night. Trump repeatedly and insistently interrupted both his opponent and the moderator, while Biden told the president to “shut up” and referred to him as a “clown.” 

Key moment: When pressed by moderator Chris Wallace to condemn white supremacists, Trump demurred. “Sure, I’m willing to do that,” the president said, adding, “I would say almost everything I see is from the left wing not from the right wing.” When pressed again to say he condemns them, Trump asked: “What do you want to call them? Give me a name, give me a name, go ahead, who do you want me to condemn?” Wallace responded: “White supremacists and white militias,” and the president answered: “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by,” referring to a far-right group classified by the ADL as a violent hate group.

United Arab Emirates Chief Rabbi Yehuda Sarna predicted during a Jewish Insider webcast yesterday that the small Jewish community in Dubai and Abu Dhabi could soon number in the thousands.

“It would not surprise me if in a number of years, if we’re not looking at 1,000 Jews in the UAE, but we’re looking at something closer to 10,000 — and we’re looking at hundreds of thousands of Israeli and Jewish tourists a year,” Sarna said.

With less than half of students casting a vote, Columbia University’s Columbia College passed a BDS referendum calling on the school to divest from a number of international companies that operate in Israel.

Of the nearly 1,800 students who voted, 61% were in favor of the divestment resolution, while 27% opposed it and 12% abstained, according to election results announced Tuesday morning. Thirty-nine percent of Columbia College students voted in the week-long election.

United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the United States Yousef Al Otaiba on Tuesday hailed the Trump administration for working to finalize a normalization agreement between the UAE and Israel, which he said came as a result of Emirati efforts to halt Israel’s planned annexation of parts of the West Bank.

During a Jewish Insider webcast alongside Israeli-American businessman Haim Saban — moderated by former White House deputy national security advisor Dina Powell McCormick — Al Otaiba described the behind-the-scenes efforts that culminated in the groundbreaking Abraham Accords.

A bipartisan group of members of Congress will announce on Tuesday the creation of a new global inter-parliamentary task force to combat digital antisemitism. 

Members of the task force include Reps. Ted Deutch (D-FL), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), along with elected officials from major parties in Canada, the U.K. and Australia. Another member of the panel is member of Knesset Michal Cotler-Wunsh from Israel’s Blue and White Party, the daughter of former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler. In July, Cotler-Wunsh challenged a Twitter spokesperson during a Knesset hearing over the company’s decision not to delete or flag a post by Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that she said was “calling for genocide.” In a May tweet, Khamenei called for “firm, armed resistance” to bring about the “elimination of the Zionist regime.”

When journalist Ali Rogin was told by her doctor that she tested positive for the BRCA-1 gene — which significantly increased her risk of breast and ovarian cancer — she didn’t quite know where to turn.

“I really wanted to consume as many accounts as I could of people who went through the same experience that I did,” Rogin told Jewish Insider in a recent interview. “And there simply were not that many books out there that dealt with the experiences that I went through.”

And so Rogin, a foreign affairs producer at “PBS NewsHour,” set about creating one. Beat Breast Cancer Like a Boss, which was released earlier this month, shares the first-hand experiences of 30 women at different stages of their fight with the disease, which is the second leading cause of death among women worldwide.