J Street Communications · [email protected]

April 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 Lawmakers Mobilize Against Trump’s Political Arrests ✍️ | Jewish Leaders: Stand Up to Trump’s Authoritarian Attacks on Students ✊| Nick Kristof on Covering Today’s Atrocities 🎙️ | At a Time of Crisis, a Movement Rises 🕊️| Reject Anti-Palestinian Terrorism, Reject Ben Gvir 🛑 | This Week’s Must Reads…

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  Jessica Blum, J Street · [email protected]

April 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM

Update for You: Passover fundraising goal

  Dear Friends, If Passover teaches us anything, it’s that the battle for freedom is neither short nor easy. Our ancestors didn’t give up in ancient times – and J Street certainly won’t today. Our generation’s struggle isn’t against the pharaohs of the past but the wannabe autocrats of …

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  Nate Wolfson, J Street · [email protected]

April 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM

🔵 Today: Nick Kristof on Covering Today’s Atrocities

  Dear Friends, Don’t miss out on today’s live discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nick Kristof on his recent experience documenting the cruelties of war on the ground in Israel and Palestine. Register here to tune in at 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific >> Nick has dedicat…

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  Lily Adelstein, J Street · [email protected]

April 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM

[SIGNATURE PENDING] Stop Anti-Democratic Arrests of Pro-Palestinian Students

  Friends, We don't yet have your name on our urgent Congressional petition supporting the constitutional rights and freedoms of lawful US residents. Our petition follows the arrest on Monday of Mohsen Mahdawi, a lawful permanent resident who has been in the US for 10 years, and who Don…

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  Allie Berg, J Street · [email protected]

April 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM

[Reminder] Support our Hometown Hero – Rep. McClellan

J Street   Friends,  We’re three weeks away from our first JStreetPAC Hometown Hero event of the year and we couldn’t be more excited to spotlight one of the boldest new advocates for our values and principles in Congress: Rep. Jennifer McClellan. Join us on Tuesday, May 6 at 6…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

April 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM

In Every Generation: Our Generation’s Time to Answer the Call

  Friends, This weekend, many of us celebrated Passover with our families. During the seder, we recalled how “in every generation” threats and enemies rise up against us, and we undoubtedly recounted the suffering our own families experienced. Jewish families around the world have seen…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

April 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM

Nick Kristof on Covering Today’s Atrocities

 🔵 Register for my Thursday discussion with the New York Times columnist Friends, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nick Kristof has just returned from Israel and the West Bank, penning a series of blistering New York Times columns on the brutal impact of war on civilians, the failures …

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  J Street · [email protected]

April 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Wishing you a meaningful Passover

 From all of us at J Street, we're wishing you a meaningful Passover. May the story of our ancestors guide us to fight for freedom and justice for all. DONATE © 2025 J Street | www.jstreet.org | [email protected] J Street is the political home…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

April 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This Week: Tell Trump: You Don’t Speak for Us 💪 | Passover Lessons for Fighting Modern Day Pharaohs ✊ | Tragedies in Gaza and the West Bank ⚠️ | Huckabee Confirmed – Despite Massive Democratic Opposition 🚨 | Policy Center Corner 🔍 | This Week’s Must Reads 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List 🗳️ | And m…

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  Adee Telem, J Street · [email protected]

April 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM

Help us act on the lessons of Passover ➡️

 We’re doubling down on our efforts to fight back against authoritarianism and the exploitation of antisemitism, and we need your help to fund this work. Friends, Looking ahead to Passover, a celebration of freedom and liberation, everyone at J Street is reflecting on the lessons the J…

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

April 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM

Sign The ‘Not In Our Name’ Petition

 ➡️ Trump is hijacking our community’s genuine fears of antisemitism to push a radical anti-democratic agenda that threatens the freedoms, fairness and opportunities that make America great. We must stand together and we must stand up to it. Friends, We are being used. Since the day he …

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

April 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM

Huckabee, Netanyahu, and incidents in the West Bank and Gaza

    Hi There, The news comes fast and furious these days. I don’t want to overwhelm you, but want to make sure you’ve seen a few key bits of news over the past few days: One, the Senate is expected to confirm Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas to be US Ambassador to Israel.  J Stree…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

April 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM

Fighting modern day Pharaohs

    Hi There, For the past couple of months, I’ve been writing a weekly commentary on Substack called Word on the Street, providing my latest thinking on all things at the intersection of Israel-Palestine, the American Jewish community and US politics. This week, I focused on four lesso…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

April 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This Week: Standing Up To Trump’s Authoritarian Attacks on Higher Ed 🎓 | Settlers Terrorize Palestinian Communities 🔥 | One More Month to Vote Your Values ✡️ | Trump’s Damaging, Arbitrary and Nonsensical Tariffs 📉 | Policy Center Corner 🔍 | This Week’s Must Reads 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List 🗳️…

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  Avraham Spraragen, J Street Policy Center · [email protected]

April 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM

[Today] An Alternate Path for Israeli Policy

  Friends, Today at 12:30pm Eastern, I’ll be moderating an important briefing with two Israeli policy experts about their vision for a new Israeli approach designed to achieve lasting peace and true regional integration. Register to join us here >> Dr. Assaf David and Dr. Smadar B…

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

April 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM

📣 Saturday: Anti-Trump ‘HANDS OFF!’ Rallies

  Friend, It’s time to show up and fight back. This Saturday, pro-democracy groups across the country are rallying together for the largest mass protest of the second Trump Presidency – and we’re calling on all J Streeters to join them. Led by our friends at Indivisible, MoveOn, the Wor…

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  Nate Wolfson, J Street · [email protected]

April 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM

🔵 Today: Students Respond to Trump’s Attacks

  Dear Friends, Join us at 11am Eastern for a briefing on Trump’s assault on democratic freedoms and our higher education system – we’ll be joined by students from the University of Michigan and Brown University as well as Stacy Burdett, antisemitism expert and inclusion consultant. Don…

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  Erin Beiner, J Street U · [email protected]

March 31, 2025 at 5:50 PM

[Briefing] Students Respond to Trump’s Attacks

 🔵 Tomorrow, hear directly from J Street U student leaders about how Trump’s assault on higher education makes them less safe. Friends, The situation on college campuses has never been so dire. Students tell us their classmates are walking around with copies of papers, fearful they coul…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

March 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM

The test of our times

  Friends, In less than 70 days since Donald Trump took office, it’s become very dark, very fast. Dark for America and our democracy. Dark for Israel and the Jewish peoples’ hopes for a secure, democratic future for their national home. Every day brings a new nightmare. Students rounded…

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  Allie Berg, J Street · [email protected]

March 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM

[Join Us] “Hometown Hero” Event with Rep. Jennifer McClellan

  Hello Friends, As violence resurges in Gaza and the Trump Administration continues down its dangerous authoritarian path, the need for principled, pro-democracy leadership in Congress has never been more urgent. We need leaders who will defend our values both abroad and here at home. …

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

March 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This Week: Tell Your Senators, Vote No on Huckabee ✍️ | The Greatest Threat to Jewish Safety is Fascism 🚨| Introducing Our Policy Center Team ⭐| J Street’s Haggadah Supplement 🕊️ | Our Democracy To-Do List 🗳️| And much more. This Week: Tell Your Senators, Vote No on Huckabee ✍️ | The G…

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  Erin Beiner, J Street U · [email protected]

March 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM

Trump is exploiting antisemitism to push his agenda

    Friends, Far from lowering the temperature on campus tensions and supporting students from all backgrounds, the Trump Administration is making a challenging situation worse – which is what J Street U is hearing from our students across the country. At J Street, we’re appalled by the…

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  Avraham Spraragen, J Street Policy Center · [email protected]

March 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM

[Briefing] An Alternate Path for Israeli Policy

  Friends, This year, J Street’s friends at the Forum for Regional Thinking and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute released a landmark report answering a question we’ve heard a lot recently: What else is Israel to do? Titled “The Present Day: Peacemaking Alternatives for Israeli Policy,” …

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  Hannah Morris, J Street · [email protected]

March 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM

Tell the Senate vote NO on Huckabee

  Hi There – it’s Hannah, J Street’s Director of Government Affairs. Today, the Senate considered President Trump’s nominee for US Ambassador to Israel: Former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee. When asked if he supported West Bank annexation, he said, "Yes sir." When given the opportu…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

March 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This Week: Netanyahu Reignites the Gaza War 🔥| Trump Targets the Department of Education 📚| J Street on the Hill 🏛️| The Future We’re Fighting For ✊ | Defining “Pro-Israel” in 2025 🇮🇱 | Our Democracy To-Do List 🗳️| And much more. Our Weekly Recap: Netanyahu Reignites the Gaza War 🔥| T…

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  Nate Wolfson, J Street · [email protected]

March 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM

Today: The Cost of Reigniting the Gaza War

 🔵 Briefing: 11am Eastern / 8am Pacific | Dear Friends, We’ll be joined shortly for an urgent, interactive briefing by seasoned Middle East policy experts Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin and Ilan Goldenberg. I wanted to be sure you had a chance to register. Click here to join us today at 11am Ea…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

March 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM

Briefing: The Cost of Reigniting the Gaza War

 🔵 Tomorrow, we’re joined by experts Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin and Ilan Goldenberg to dive into how – and whether – there’s a way to get the ceasefire back on track. Friends, Netanyahu’s decision this week to reignite the anguish of the Gaza war is a dark, painful milestone. Tomorrow, we’re…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

March 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM

J Street Responds to Netanyahu’s Decision to Resume Airstrikes in Gaza

  Friends, This is a dark and painful moment we hoped would never come. We strongly oppose the decision by Netanyahu to reignite this horrific war. This decision flies in the face of pleas from freed Israeli hostages, families of those still held in Gaza and top Israeli security experts…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

March 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM

My speech tomorrow…

  Friend, Today, J Street leaders from across the country are gathering in Washington DC. I’ll be sharing some thoughts with them on this moment and our movement’s role, and I wanted to share those thoughts with you here too. We’re coming together at perhaps the most trying moment of ou…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

March 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This Week: Trump attacks higher education 📚 | Our roadmap for Gaza 🧭 | Stand for your values, vote Hatikvah ✡️ | Jews say no to Project Esther 🛑 | Mark your calendar for Conference 📅 | And much more. Our Weekly Recap: Trump attacks higher education 📚 | Our roadmap for Gaza 🧭 | Stand fo…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

March 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM

Trump’s Assault on Education

  Friends, The storm clouds gathering over American democracy grow darker and more ominous by the day. Core freedoms, rights and institutions that have given Jewish Americans – and so many others – opportunity and security are under threat. Right before our eyes, Donald Trump and his Ad…

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  Sam Berkman, Hatikvah Slate · [email protected]

March 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM

⏰ It's time to vote!

J Street Friends, If your last couple of months have been anything like mine, then you’ve felt a mix of outrage, fear, sadness and even helplessness. The universe seems flipped upside down with Trump and Netanyahu dragging us in the wrong direction. If you’re like me, you’ve ques…

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  Erin Beiner, J Street U · [email protected]

March 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM

In light of what’s happening at Columbia...

 Hear directly from a Jewish college student as Trump ramps up his attacks on higher education. Hi There – it’s Erin, the director of J Street U. I was so proud of our student leader Meirav for speaking before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week as they held a hearing on antisemit…

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  Meirav Solomon, J Street U · [email protected]

March 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM

Here’s what I told the Senate about antisemitism on campus 🗣️

  Friends, My name is Meirav. I’m a student at Tufts University and a J Street U student leader. Last week, I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee as they held a hearing on antisemitism in America. As the only Jewish college student to participate, I was disheartened by the s…

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  Nate Wolfson, J Street · [email protected]

March 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

  Friends, It's been another breakneck week. Netanyahu’s decision to withhold aid to Gaza, rather than advancing the negotiations for the second phase of the hostage and ceasefire deal, is a violation of international law that endangers the hostages and threatens to plunge Israelis and …

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  Emily Reeves Keller, J Street · [email protected]

March 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM

An invitation for You from J Street!

J Street Dear Friends, A lot has changed since our last National Conference – The horrific events of October 7th and the violence and destruction that followed for Israelis and Gazans alike. The re-election of Donald Trump and the escalating ultra right-wing extremist ideologies …

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  Hannah Morris, J Street · [email protected]

March 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM

Trump’s Dark, Divisive Speech

  Friends, Last night, Donald Trump set out a dark and divisive vision for the future of our country. Between the scapegoating of migrants and trans people, the disingenuous embrace of “law and order,” boasting of DOGE’s dismantling of the federal government, and the absurdity of seekin…

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

March 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM

Now what?

  To help us unpack the latest developments of the ceasefire and hostage deal, J Street’s Policy Center is hosting a briefing tomorrow, March 4 at 2pm Eastern featuring renowned Israeli journalist and military analyst Amos Harel and J Street Policy Fellow Yael Patir. Register Here Fr…

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  J Street · [email protected]

March 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM

J Street Responds to the Expiration of Phase 1 of the Ceasefire

  J Street Responds to the Expiration of Phase 1 of the Ceasefire March 2, 2025 Washington DC – As the Gaza ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas entered its 42nd day – the intended timeframe for beginning Phase II of the agreement – J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami released the…

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  Nate Wolfson, J Street · [email protected]

February 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

  Friends, Phase I of the ceasefire is set to expire this Saturday, but getting to Phase II is far from certain. Prime Minister Netanyahu is attempting to extend Phase I while insisting on keeping Israeli troops in the Philadelphi Corridor, violating the ceasefire and jeopardizing futur…

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  Cooper Boyar, J Street · [email protected]

February 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM

Highlights From Our Trip to Israel and the West Bank

  Hi Friends, I wanted to reach out following my return from our Congressional delegation to Israel and the West Bank last week. Our educational travel program to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory -- named the Len Hill Education Program in honor and memory of its longtime ad…

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

February 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM

[Briefing] The State of Gaza Ceasefire Negotiations and Escalation in the Region

  Friends, It’s hard to overstate how fragile a moment this is. Phase I of the ceasefire and hostage release deal is set to expire on Saturday. Israelis and Palestinians are holding their breath as the parties were supposed to begin Phase II negotiations weeks ago. The latest reports in…

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  Nate Wolfson, J Street · [email protected]

February 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

  Friends, It’s been a painful week. A grotesque ceremony from Hamas releasing the bodies of two infant Israeli hostages – Kfir and Ariel Bibas – as well as the body of 84-year-old Israeli peace advocate Oded Lifshitz. Adding to our horror was the misidentification of Shiri Bibas’s body…

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  Nate Wolfson, J Street · [email protected]

February 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM

[Today] USAID Briefing

 🔵 Hear the on-the-ground perspective of Trump’s and Musk’s efforts to shut down USAID. Friends, Warehouses overflowing with spoiling food and medicine. HIV treatment programs shut down worldwide. Anti-extremism programs halted. Trump’s and Musk’s decision to put a hold on America’s aid…

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  Hannah Morris, J Street · [email protected]

February 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM

USAID Briefing: Trump & Musk Sow Chaos Worldwide

 🔵 Join a former USAID Gaza/West Bank Mission Chief and Israeli-Palestinian peace advocate for an on-the-ground perspective of Trump’s and Musk’s efforts to shut down USAID.   USAID Briefing: Trump & Musk Sow Chaos Worldwide Thursday, February 20 | 12:30pm EasternJoin a former USA…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

February 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM

A Presidents’ Day Like No Other

  Presidents’ Day.  I’ve always had the deepest respect for the institution of the Presidency – working at the White House was the honor of a lifetime. Our best Presidents have defended our freedoms, protected our rights and sought to bring our country ever closer to a more perfect unio…

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  Jen Abrahamson, J Street · [email protected]

February 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

  Friend, With Trump charging forward with his disgraceful “concept of a plan” for US-backed ethnic cleansing in Gaza, this week saw a powerful response from Congress: A letter slamming the proposal signed by over two-thirds of Democrats and a majority of Jewish members. A massive thank…

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  Hannah Morris, J Street · [email protected]

February 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM

This is a big deal

 ➡️ Just Released: Over 140 members of the House have signed onto a congressional letter slamming President Trump’s abhorrent, unworkable plan to “take over” Gaza and force out 2 million Palestinians who call the land home. Friend,  Just a few moments ago, 145 members of the House relea…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

February 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM

How you can fight back against fascism

 One person can make a real difference 👇 Friends, President Trump and Elon Musk are taking a wrecking ball to our country. They want nothing more than for us to retreat into the dark corners of our despair. We can’t and won’t let them win. That’s why this week, I turned my attention to …

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  Lily Adelstein, J Street · [email protected]

February 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM

Response needed from You

  Hi – I’m Lily, J Street’s Deputy Director of Government Affairs. Last week, my colleague Hannah read you in on a letter circulating in Congress demanding President Trump retract his statement that the US “take over” Gaza – which would forcibly remove millions of already war-weary Pale…

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