Congressional pressure is emerging for action against student groups at the University of California, Berkeley Law School that voted in August to adopt bylaws barring pro-Israel speakers.

Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) is urging the Department of Education to investigate the school for potential violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, following a statement on the issue from Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) on Monday. 

Robert Shwartzman has been fascinated by speed since the first time he jumped behind the wheel of a kart at age 4. Born in Israel but raised in Russia, Shwartzman has excelled through the ranks of Formula racing, collecting wins and earning titles as he raced his way toward the big leagues of Formula One.

That dream became reality on Oct. 21, when  the 23-year-old made his F1 debut during the first practice session of the 2022 United States Grand Prix at Texas’ Circuit of The Americas in Austin.

Nuclear negotiations with Iran have been inactive for months, and it is not currently a U.S. priority to push them forward, Rob Malley, the U.S. special representative for Iran and lead U.S. negotiator for the nuclear talks, said on Monday.

The talks have not advanced since late August or early September, Malley said, when Iran demanded a concession “extraneous to the [nuclear deal] and which none of the other participants… would have said was a legitimate demand” to the European Union’s proposed framework, which many had thought could lead to a finalized agreement.

With a deadlocked Israeli electorate heading to the polls today for the fifth time in less than four years, the Jewish state appears to have made a national sport out of general elections.

And what’s a sport without the art of speculating about who might come out on top?

United Democracy Project, a super PAC affiliated with AIPAC, has reemerged in a Pittsburgh-area House race, recently spending about $80,000 on mailers targeting the Democratic nominee, state Rep. Summer Lee, after a bitterly contested primary during which the group invested millions in an effort to oppose her candidacy.

The new mailer, which was shared with Jewish Insider on Monday by a spokesperson for UDP, accuses Lee of holding views that are “too extreme” for Pennsylvania’s redrawn 12th Congressional District, displaying some of her past social media statements to suggest the progressive Democrat is in favor of defunding the police and abolishing prison, among other things.

Daniella Levine Cava, the Democratic mayor of Miami-Dade County, is endorsing Florida state Sen. Annette Taddeo, a Democratic House challenger in South Florida who hopes to become the first Hispanic Jew elected to Congress.

“I am proud to support my good friend Senator Annette Taddeo, who’s on the verge of making history as the first Jewish Latina ever elected to Congress,” Levine Cava, who is Miami-Dade’s first Jewish mayor, said in a statement to Jewish Insider on Monday. “For five years, she’s fought for our community in Tallahassee and despite being in the minority she’s always found ways to deliver results for all Miami-Dade residents. That’s exactly the type of fighter Miamians need in Washington, someone who will work across the aisle and always put Miami-Dade first to tackle the many issues facing the county.”

Twenty House progressives argued in a new letter late last week that Israel remains ineligible for the Visa Waiver Program, and urged the Biden administration to “address… discriminatory restrictions” on U.S. citizen travel to the West Bank.

The lawmakers, led by Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), wrote to Secretary of State Tony Blinken last week to highlight restrictions on U.S. citizens traveling to the West Bank and arguing against Israel’s inclusion in the program.

A bipartisan group of 13 lawmakers, including both senators and House members, wrote to the leaders of major technology companies on Thursday, urging them to provide more services to dissident Iranians protesting against the regime in Tehran.

The letter, addressed to the leaders of Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and Digital Ocean, a cloud computing firm, urged them to take steps to “expand lawful access of key communications services to Iranians inside Iran,” arguing that their actions could be “vital” to Iranian protesters’ goals.