Jacob Reses, the longtime chief of staff to Vice President JD Vance, will depart the Trump administration at the end of the summer, a source familiar with the matter confirms to Jewish Insider.
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ANALYSIS | Without a resolution to the ongoing tensions with Tehran — to say nothing of the recent waves of ballistic missile attacks from Iran and Yemen, and Hezbollah’s ongoing fire targeting northern Israel — Netanyahu could find himself fighting his toughest battle yet.
CENTCOM announced that it had begun launching additional “self-defense” strikes against multiple targets in Iran, after initially renewing its attacks on Tuesday.
Rep. Elise Stefanik praised Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. John Fetterman on Wednesday, arguing that both Democrats’ forceful condemnations of campus antisemitism after the Oct. 7 attacks made them outliers in their party on the issue.
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U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz traveled to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain this week, marking the highest-level public visit by a U.S. official to the Middle East since the war with Iran began on February 28.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin announced her endorsement of Rep. Angie Craig in Minnesota’s Senate primary, calling the moderate congresswoman “a leader and a fighter” who has “stepped up” while serving in the House.
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Sen. John Fetterman warned that the outlook for Jewish voters within his party has become “bleak.”
“I’m not a member of the Jewish community, but if I was one, it would be bleak as a Jewish voter in the Democratic Party,” said Fetterman at a conference in Washington.
Federal prosecutors indicted eight anti-Israel activists affiliated with the University of Michigan, accusing them of conspiring to run a campaign intimidating university officials seen as pro-Israel — and vandalizing local Jewish organizations.
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Ron Klain, the former chief of staff to President Joe Biden, defended Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner’s tattoo of a Nazi symbol in a comment responding to the Republican Jewish Coalition on Instagram.
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Klain claimed ‘the tattoo was a skull and crossbones to remember his fallen comrades from his service in Afghanistan’ — an explanation the campaign itself has not previously offered
Jacob Reses, the longtime chief of staff to Vice President JD Vance, will depart the Trump administration at the end of the summer, a source familiar with the matter confirms to Jewish Insider. Reses, 35, became a confidante to Vance in 2021, advising the vice president through the heated primary and general election contests for... Read More
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Without a resolution to the ongoing tensions with Tehran, Netanyahu could find himself fighting his toughest battle yet
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) announced her endorsement on Thursday of Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) in Minnesota’s Senate primary, calling the moderate congresswoman “a leader and a fighter” who has “stepped up” while serving in the House. “The Democratic Party needs a new generation of leadership, and we need more of those leaders to be from... Read More
The New York Republican praised the Pennsylvania Democrats’ responses to post-Oct. 7 campus antisemitism, arguing that most of their party failed to show similar leadership.
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The Pennsylvania senator heavily criticized the normalization of anti-Israel platforms and the validation of extreme views among Democratic voters
