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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]
October 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM

[SIGN ON] Stop The Sickening Settler Violence

 ⚠️ Distressing Content Warning ⚠️ Friends, It’s olive harvest season in the West Bank. Horrifically, violent settlers are also treating it as open season on their Palestinian neighbors. Sickening footage has emerged: A masked Israeli settler beating a woman motionless. A mob descendi…
  J Street Communications · [email protected]
October 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This week: Democrats and Republicans Unite Against Annexation 🇺🇸 | This week’s analysis on Word on the Street 🚧 | J Street’s Policy Center on Implementing the Gaza Ceasefire 📝 | Standing up to Bigotry in Politics 🛑 | We Were Strangers Too 🌎 | This Week’s Must-Reads/Listens 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-…
  J Street Advocacy · [email protected]
October 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM

[Signature Needed] No Excuses. Surge Aid Now.

  Friend,  Right now, a draft letter is circulating in Congress addressed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, pressing the State Department to maintain a strong focus on humanitarian aid. Friend: I’m writing because we don’t yet have your name on our humanitarian aid petition in support …
  Gabi Meisel, J Street · [email protected]
October 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM

[Invite] Timely Conversation with Jeremy Ben-Ami and Dahlia Scheindlin

  Dear Friend, As hostages return home and Palestinian families begin to rebuild amid the ruins, a fragile peace has taken hold – one that brings both relief and profound uncertainty. There is immense work ahead to turn this moment into something lasting. Please join us on Sunday, Novem…
  Lily Adelstein, J Street · [email protected]
October 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM

[Signature Needed] No Excuses. Surge Aid Now.

  Friends, Every man, woman and child in Gaza is dependent on humanitarian aid to survive right now – and despite the ceasefire, it’s still going to take months of persistent effort to get the humanitarian situation in Gaza to a point that anyone could deem “acceptable.” Toddlers are …
  Sam Berkman, J Street · [email protected]
October 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM

[Today] Welcoming the Stranger with HIAS

 🔵 At 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific: What to do if we see ICE targeting our neighbors – and how we show up together Dear Friends, Today, I’ll be joined by Naomi Steinberg, Vice President of Policy and Advocacy at HIAS, for a crucial conversation on how we turn the energy from No Kings this…
  Ilan Goldenberg, J Street · [email protected]
October 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM

An Insider’s View on “Day After” Planning in Gaza

 Wednesday: US policy advisor Samantha Sutton joins Word on the Street Friend, When I was working in the White House, we started planning for the “day after” in Gaza just a week after October 7, 2023 – running through multiple scenarios to replace Hamas, weighing numerous outcomes of po…
  Sam Berkman, J Street · [email protected]
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM

[Invite] Welcoming the Stranger: Putting our Values to Work

 🔵 A conversation with our HIAS allies Friends, Some of the scenes across the country – emerging on social media and some even promoted actively by this White House – are shocking. Masked ICE agents dragging people off the street. Military-style raids on apartment buildings. Families to…
  J Street Communications · [email protected]
October 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This week: Home at Last🎗️| Join Nationwide No Kings Rallies This Saturday 👑 | Building a Movement Grounded in Democracy🎙 | What Comes Next❓| Fighting Back Against Project Esther 📣 |The End of “Managing the Conflict” 🚧 | Reserve Your J Street 2026 Convention Ticket 🎟️ | This Week’s Must-Reads/Listen…
  Gal Peleg, J Street · [email protected]
October 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM

[TOMORROW] Join J Street at #NoKings Rallies Across the Country!

  Hi There,  Tomorrow, folks across the country will take to the streets to say America has #NoKings. Trump and his MAGA movement are targeting immigrants, detaining people without warrants and rigging electoral playing fields while draining funds from our education and healthcare syste…
  Ilan Goldenberg, J Street · [email protected]
October 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM

[Signature Pending] This War Ends Here

  We don’t yet have your name on our “No Return to The Gaza War” petition. Click here to join our campaign » Friend, The ceasefire is holding – but we aren’t out of the woods yet. In Israel, Netanyahu keeps threatening to go back to war. His government is still using humanit…
  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]
October 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM

No Return to War in Gaza [PETITION]

  Friends, It took far too long – and far too many lives – to reach this ceasefire. Now comes the real test: Keeping it. The parties to the agreement signed in Egypt yesterday must move fast to meet basic human needs, disarm Hamas, rebuild Gaza and create enough stability for further…
  Eliza Schloss, J Street · [email protected]
October 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM

If you watch something today, let it be this

 Israelis and Palestinians react to two years of horror and relief at last Friends, Just after the announcement of the ceasefire last week – as hostages were finally set to come home, the skies above Gaza were quieting and families on both sides stood on the verge of their first sighs o…
  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]
October 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM

Finally, the day after…

 I feel like I can exhale. Friends, I feel like I can finally exhale. I’m on text chains filled with joy at the images of twenty hostages – whose stories we’ve come to know so personally – all of whom are now home at last. The emotion is raw and overwhelming. In Gaza, for the first time…
  J Street Communications · [email protected]
October 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This week: The Moment We’ve All Been Working For 🕊️ | Two years since October 7 🕯️ | The Promise and Peril of Trump’s Gaza Deal 📄 | Join Nationwide No Kings Rallies Next Saturday 👑 | A Word About Christian Nationalism with Michelle Goldberg 🎤 | Reserve Your J Street 2026 Convention Ticket 🎟️ | This…
  Ilan Goldenberg, J Street · [email protected]
October 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM

This war must be the last

 Today is a hopeful day. I can’t help but think about how it should have happened sooner. Dear friends, After two years of unfathomable horror, the sounds of bombs and gunfire may finally give way to pained relief – and celebration by both Israelis and Palestinians. Many of us are figur…
  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]
October 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM

[🚨Today] Emergency Briefing: An End to the War

 Hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin joins us at 4pm Eastern. And other can’t-miss calls planned for you today and tomorrow … Friends, If you’re anything like me, you may find yourself asking the same question: Is this really happening? After two devastating years of war, Israel and Hamas…
  Ilan Goldenberg, J Street · [email protected]
October 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM

⏰ [Tomorrow] Remembering the Victims, Fighting for the Hostages

 Register to join us Thursday at 1pm Eastern Dear Friends, Two years after October 7, I know so many of us are still grieving and trying to make sense of all that’s been lost. Tomorrow, Thursday, October 9 at 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific, I’ll be hosting a conversation that feels especial…
  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]
October 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM

Two Years Later, I Still Carry the Pain of That Day

  Dear friends, As we begin the Sukkot holiday this evening, and prepare to mark the anniversary of October 7 tomorrow, I am reminded of the calm that preceded that dreadful day. How unexpected it was. How quickly the joy and peace of the holiday turned to horror. I tried to make sens…
  Sam Berkman, J Street · [email protected]
October 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM

🔵 [Invite] Two Years After October 7

 Two calls about Israeli and Palestinian suffering and their shared future Friends, How do you possibly explain two years of suffering and anguish? Two years for hostage families, waiting in torment for news of their loved ones. Two years of trauma and grief for all Israelis, especially…
  J Street Communications · [email protected]
October 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 Winds of Change in the Democratic Party ⬅️ | A Horrifying Terror Attack on Yom Kippur 🕯️ | The Promise and Peril of Trump’s Gaza Deal 📄 | No Kings, No Silence 👑 | J Street Deeply Disturbed by FBI Director Cutting Ties With ADL ⚠️ | Drumbeat Against Annexation 🚧 | This is a Time of Jewish Reckoning …
  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]
October 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM

Did you see the New York Times this morning?

 From 2009 to 2025: The times – and the Times’ coverage of J Street – have changed. Friend, Seventeen years ago, we launched J Street to change the definition of what it means to be pro-Israel. In 2009, the New York Times profiled our new organization, and I was quoted saying: “We’re tr…
  J Street · [email protected]
October 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM

G'mar Chatimah Tovah

  SUPPORT OUR MISSION » © 2025 J Street | www.jstreet.org | [email protected] J Street is the political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy Americans who want Israel to be secure, democratic and the national home of the Jewish people…
  Gal Peleg, J Street · [email protected]
October 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM

Join J Street at "No Kings" Rallies Across the Country!

  Dear Friends, Folks across the country will soon take to the streets once again to say, “No Kings.”  Trump and his MAGA movement are using our tax dollars to line their own pockets and pursue deadly, anti-democratic power grabs. They're targeting immigrants and detaining people withou…
  Ilan Goldenberg, J Street · [email protected]
September 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM

The Promise and Peril of This Moment

  Friends, Yesterday, President Trump unveiled a plan to finally end the war in Gaza, bring the hostages home and lay the foundations for lasting peace.  This is a moment of real promise – and tremendous peril. First, the promise: This plan reflects principles long championed by the int…
  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]
September 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM

🚨 [Today] Rapid Response Briefing on Trump + Netanyahu’s Meeting

 Is this in fact a turning point? Join us today to discuss. Friends, Today’s meeting between Trump and Netanyahu at the White House could mark a turning point – the question is whether the US President finally has the strength needed to push through a deal.  With hostages languishing a…
  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]
September 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM

The sound of silence breaking

  Friends,In recent months, I’ve written often about silence - the unsettling absence of outspoken leadership in Jewish America, the Democratic Party, or the Israeli opposition – in the face of the all-out assault on democracy in the U.S. and Israel. This week, I write about something d…
  J Street Communications · [email protected]
September 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

  As the World Meets in New York, Gaza Pulls Focus 🗽 | The Fallout of Netanyahu’s UN Speech 🎙️| This Week in Congress… 🏛️ | Moral Clarity in the Days of Awe 🕯️ | Jeremy Joins BoomerLennials Podcast 🎧| Rabbis Across the Country Speak Out ✡️ | This Week’s Must-Reads/Listens 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-Do…
  Emily Reeves Keller, J Street · [email protected]
September 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM

Register Now – Early Bird Ends Oct 1

  Dear Friends, As a new year begins, we’ve been reflecting on where we’ve been – but more importantly, we’re looking ahead to take bold steps toward where we need to go. This is a time to recommit to our values, our community and the future we want to build together. It’s in this spirit…
  Yehuda Cohen (via JStreet) · [email protected]
September 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM

My Son is Held Hostage. Here’s What I’ll Be Thinking About During Netanyahu’s UN Speech

  Friends, Prime Minister Netanyahu is taking the stage at the United Nations in New York this morning. My son, meanwhile, will be spending his 720th day in Hamas captivity, fighting alongside nineteen other living hostages to stay alive until their release. I do not know what Netanyahu…
  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]
September 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM

What Netanyahu won’t tell you at the UN tomorrow

  Friends, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants the world to believe Israel stands alone – a “Super Sparta” besieged by enemies and abandoned by allies. It’s a story that keeps him in power as Israel’s sole defender while he drives an endless war of devastation in Gaza. B…
  J Street · [email protected]
September 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM

Shanah Tovah from J Street

 Wishing you a new year filled with love, reflection and peace. Thank you, sincerely, for being a part of our community. SUPPORT OUR MISSION » © 2025 J Street | www.jstreet.org | [email protected] J Street is the political home for pro-Israel,…
  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]
September 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM

Moral Clarity in the Days of Awe

  Friends,  We’re about to enter the holiest days of the Jewish year – and they are never easy.  It’s the time we as a people are called to the work of repentance: Confession. Regret. Change. As a child in synagogue, the language of “judgment” and being “sealed in the Book of Life” fill…
  J Street Communications · [email protected]
September 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This week: Netanyahu Launches Gaza City Ground Invasion ⚠️ | Raising the Alarm Over Rampant West Bank Violence 🚨 | The New York Times on Trump, Netanyahu and an Israel Without Restraint 💰| We Must Reject Political Violence ☮️ | Are Campuses Antisemitic? 🎙️ | Has Israel Become a Pariah State? 🇮🇱 | T…
  Nate Wolfson, J Street · [email protected]
September 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM

[TOMORROW] Life in the Occupied West Bank

 🔵 Tomorrow, hear from Palestinian activist Eid Hathaleen and Israeli policy expert Yehuda Shaul about settler terrorism and the impact on Palestinian lives. Friends, Olive trees uprooted, farmland turned into wasteland. Water lines cut and tanks punctured, leaving families without drin…
  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]
September 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM

Call Your Senators. Stop Settler Violence.

  Friends, I’ve been visiting the West Bank for over a decade. You’d think little could still shock me. You’d be wrong. It’s never been this bad. The rate of home demolitions, settlement construction and rampant, brazen settler violence is off the charts. We visited one community wh…
  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]
September 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM

Friends, I wanted to share a note from this week’s gathering in DC

  Friends, I’m writing to you from Washington DC, where we’ve just wrapped up another energizing and successful National Leadership Summit.  Tomorrow, we’re building on the momentum from the past two days and heading to Capitol Hill with clear calls for: A war-ending hostage deal in Ga…
  J Street Communications · [email protected]
September 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

J Street This week: J Street Endorses Full House Democratic Leadership 🏛️ | J Street Responds to Charlie Kirk Assassination 🇺🇸 | Killing the Negotiators Won’t Save the Hostages ⚠️ | No More Blank Checks ✍️ | A Horrific Jerusalem Terror Attack 🕯️| Randi Weingarten on Why Fascists Fear Teachers…
  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]
September 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM

Partisanship is blinding us to our humanity

  Friends,  Today, we awake to the aftermath of yet another brutal act of political violence. Whatever one thinks of Charlie Kirk’s views, the murder of the 31-year-old founder of the nation’s leading right-wing youth movement should shock us all. Another brutal, public shooting on an A…
  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]
September 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM

No More Blank Checks

  Dear friends, For decades, the United States and Israel have had a special relationship, a bond my generation was raised to believe rested on shared interests and values. At its heart was an American commitment to ensure Israel could defend itself against enemies seeking its destruc…
  J Street Communications · [email protected]
September 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

J Street This week: Time for Congress to Say No to Annexation and Recognize Palestine ✅ | Red Alert for Annexation 🚨 | Trump’s Petty, Dangerous Palestinian Ban ❌ | Norm Eisen Talks Democracy Under Fire 🎙️ | How Strong is Hamas Today? ⚔️ | In Case You Missed It 🗞️ | This Week’s Must-Reads/ Lis…
  J Street Resources · [email protected]
September 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM

Why Palestinian Statehood Matters

  Friends, US recognition of a Palestinian state would slam the door on far-right efforts to take over Gaza indefinitely and annex the West Bank. That’s why – as more countries commit to recognizing Palestine and momentum builds in the United States – Netanyahu and his allies are wor…
  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]
September 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM

[Signature Pending] Tell Congress It’s Time for Palestinian Statehood

 [Petition] Friends, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has unveiled a proposal to annex 82% of the West Bank with the goal “to remove, once and for all, this idea of a Palestinian state.” This plan has nothing to do with security and everything to do with locking in permanent,…
  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]
September 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM

It’s Time to Recognize Palestine

  Friends, We founded J Street recognizing a core reality: Only two states – Israel and Palestine – can deliver peace, safety and freedom to Palestinians and Israelis alike, while also securing Israel’s Jewish, democratic future. Right now, Trump and Netanyahu are erasing hope for Pa…
  Hilit Sagie 🎗️ · [email protected]
August 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM

Israel is Boiling: Free the Hostages. End the War.

  Dear friends, Just hours after the October 7 attacks, I was called up for reserve duty, and we were at war. For four months, I helped lead delegations of senior officials on tours of the kibbutzim that were massacred near the Gaza border, including J Street delegations. We bore witne…
  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]
August 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM

A new home for conversation

 What’s coming to you on Word on the Street and why you should subscribe Dear Friends, It’s been nearly a year since I launched Word on the Street as a place to share personal thoughts in real time on the issues of the day – distinct from the press releases and policy papers of J Street…
  J Street Communications · [email protected]
August 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

J Street This week: House Democrats Take Action to Save Children in Gaza 📣 | Every Bomb is a Choice 💣 | Time for Jewish Institutional Leaders to Get Off the Sidelines ✡️ | The Message from Israel: End the War. Bring them Home ✊ | Israel’s Breaking Point, Washington’s Turning Point 🧭 | The Dan…
  Nadav Tamir, J Street Israel · [email protected]
August 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM

The message from Israel: End the War. Bring them Home.

  Dear friends, I’m writing to you from Tel Aviv, where the roads have been once again filled with tens of thousands of Israelis – ordinary citizens, hostage families, Israeli veterans and former diplomats like myself – demanding that Prime Minister Netanyahu end this devastating war …
  Emily Reeves Keller, J Street · [email protected]
August 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM

Join us at the J Street Convention

J Street Dear Friends, In moments of crisis, progress begins when people come together with purpose, courage and the will to build something better. As the war in Gaza continues to take a devastating toll, calls to end the violence, deliver lifesaving humanitarian aid and bring t…
  Hannah Morris, J Street · [email protected]
August 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM

We got a big win – let’s keep it up ➡️

  Friends, A massive thanks to the thousands of J Streeters who signed our petitions and called their Members of Congress last week – we had a massive impact. Over 100 Members of the House signed onto two J Street-backed letters: one demanding Secretary Rubio reverse his cruel suspen…