AIPAC’s new super PAC, the United Democracy Project, has focused all of its spending so far — $1.2 million — on four Democratic primary races, according to FEC filings.

The super PAC raised $15.7 million in the first quarter — $8.5 million of that from AIPAC itself — and has so far spent $1.2 million across four Democratic primary races set for early May: Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, Ohio’s 11th and the 1st and 4th Districts in North Carolina. It made no expenditures for or against Republicans. Its spending included expenditures in support of three Democrats and against two. AIPAC’s PAC has endorsed more than 300 candidates as of last week, all but 10 of them incumbents.

The Supreme Court sided unanimously last week with the heirs of a Holocaust survivor who are seeking to reclaim from a Spanish state museum a painting taken by the Nazis, opening up a new phase in the long-running legal battle.

The family of Lilly Cassirer has been involved in a multigenerational dispute with the Spanish government-owned Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, which holds a painting by French Impressionist Camille Pissarro. The painting was taken from Cassirer by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust and later purchased from a dealer in New York by Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza. The Baron transferred it to a nonprofit upon his death, creating the eponymous museum.

This article was first published in The Circuit.

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Monday sought to soothe tensions over recent violence in Jerusalem by inviting Arab diplomats to break the daily Ramadan fast at his office compound in Tel Aviv.

Democratic Majority for Israel will announce on Monday that its political action committee is endorsing a dozen new House and Senate primary candidates as the midterm elections come into sharper focus.

The pro-Israel advocacy group is throwing its support behind nine Democratic incumbents who are up for reelection this cycle — including five senators and four House members — as well as three candidates vying for open seats in California, Maryland and Ohio, according to Mark Mellman, DMFI PAC’s president and a veteran Democratic pollster.

A proposed Holocaust education bill that had been met with fierce resistance from New York state lawmakers last legislative session now appears to be facing renewed  — if somewhat mysterious — opposition in Albany.

Late last week, the bill was removed — with no public explanation — from a detailed list of agenda items that are expected to come up for discussion during a meeting of the state Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee on Monday, according to a Democratic insider who spoke with Jewish Insider on the condition of anonymity.

There comes a point in every Passover Seder when someone rises from the table and opens the door to ceremonially welcome in Elijah, the prophet whose arrival is said to mark the arrival of the messiah. 

Every Seder except Vice President Kamala Harris’, that is. 

Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Herzog on Thursday called on the U.S. to repair its strained relations with Saudi Arabia, particularly in the event that it reenters the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran — Riyadh’s biggest regional foe.

U.S.-Saudi relations have degraded under the Biden administration, which has taken a more aggressive posture toward the regime and de-facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, who was close with some Trump administration officials. Some Democratic lawmakers recently called on the Biden administration to go further in reviewing Riyadh’s human rights record.

When reservations went live on Thursday for Michael Solomonov’s first restaurant to open outside of Philadelphia, the first several days of spots were gone within minutes. 

It’s a fitting welcome to Brooklyn for the chef who introduced modern Israeli cuisine to American diners with his perennially popular Zahav, which opened in Philadelphia in 2008. Fourteen years later, reservations at the Philadelphia hotspot — which open between 30 and 60 days before the reservation date — are almost always snatched up in five minutes or less.