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…

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  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…

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  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 …

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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,…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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,…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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 …

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  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…

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  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…

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  Lexi Goldwyn, JStreetPAC · [email protected]

August 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM

You’re Invited: Join J Street in DC to support Sherrod Brown!

J Street Dear Friend, I’m excited to personally invite you to join us following the National Leadership Summit for a JStreetPAC event in support of Senator Sherrod Brown. A steadfast J Street champion for over a decade, Sherrod launched his campaign to return to the Senate ju…

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  Jess Blum, J Street · [email protected]

August 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM

✍️Sign On: Demand Baby Formula Enters Gaza

 We have just hours to make an impact. Friends, Infants in Gaza are dying of malnutrition, and we must do everything in our power to stop it. For well over two months this spring, the Israeli government blocked all aid from entering Gaza. Since then, Israel and the United States have…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

August 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

J Street This week: Why Smotrich Will Ultimately Fail 🚜 | Ro Khanna on Gaza, Palestinian Statehood and the Democratic Party 🎙️| Netanyahu’s Expansion of the Gaza War 🔍 | A Powerful Show of Dissent in Israel 🇮🇱 | Help José Andrés Serve 1 Million Daily Meals in Gaza 🌍 | This Week’s Must-Reads 📖…

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  Bradley Freericks, J Street · [email protected]

August 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM

Sign On: Stop Denying Medical Visas to Children from Gaza

  Friends, Right now, sick and injured children from Gaza, including those with cancer and war wounds, are being denied entry to the United States for urgent medical treatment. On August 16, without warning or explanation, the State Department suspended a humanitarian visa program that…

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

August 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM

Why Smotrich will ultimately fail

  Friends, Today, Israeli authorities rubber-stamped Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's request to build 3,401 homes in the long-delayed E-1 settlement project in the heart of the West Bank. It’s not just another settlement. It’s a deliberate, calculated move – as Smotrich openly admit…

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

August 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM

Ro Khanna on Gaza, Palestinian Statehood and the Democratic Party

 [Tomorrow] Subscribe on Substack to watch at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific Friends, Congressman Ro Khanna has been one of the most outspoken leaders on the horrific situation in Gaza and the need for Democrats to shift their approach on the region. Tomorrow, I’ll be sitting down with him to…

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  Sherrod Brown via J Street · [email protected]

August 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM

Special news to share …

J Street I need you in my corner from day one. Friend: When you love this country, you fight for the people who make it work. These words have guided my life in public service. So it pains me to see everyday folks working harder than ever but still falling behind – while D.C. p…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

August 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

  This Week: Stand With the Striking Israeli Hostage Families ✊ | Your Guide to Tough Conversations 🗣️ | What US Leaders Miss on Their Trips to Israel ✈️ | Witnesses to Gaza’s Aid Crisis Speak Out 🌾 | Former IDF Spokesperson on Why Reoccupying Gaza is a Dead End ⚠️ | Help a Violently E…

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  J Street Resources · [email protected]

August 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM

Gaza: Your Guide to Tough Conversations

  Friends, Our community is facing a painful moment of moral reckoning – one made even harder by the spin, deflections and calculated distractions churned out daily by Netanyahu and his backers and repeated ad nauseam online. That’s why we’ve put together this resource: A guide to the mi…

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  Jess Blum, J Street · [email protected]

August 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM

[Today] Reality Check on Gaza Aid

 🔵 Join a GHF whistleblower and Israeli human rights advocate for an exclusive briefing on the Gaza humanitarian crisis Friends, Few outsiders have made it into Gaza in the past two years, and even fewer are able to speak openly about what they’ve seen. That’s why I don’t want you to mis…

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

August 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM

What AIPAC Israel Trips Won’t Show You

  Friends, I just returned from leading a J Street delegation of senior American policymakers to Israel and the West Bank — and we weren’t the only delegation there. AIPAC sponsored two trips: one for freshman House Democrats, another for Republicans. House Speaker Mike Johnson was al…

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

August 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM

[Invite] Witnesses to Gaza’s Aid Crisis Speak Out

 🔵 Join a GHF whistleblower and Israeli human rights advocate for an exclusive briefing on the Gaza humanitarian crisis Friends, It’s shocking that despite horrific images of starvation coming out of Gaza daily, Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders continue to say “there is no starvation.…

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  Jess Blum, J Street · [email protected]

August 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM

[Signature Pending] Americans Against Netanyahu’s Gaza Occupation Plan

  Friends, I’m reaching out because we don’t yet have your name on our petition against Netanyahu’s catastrophic, indefinite Gaza occupation plan – including efforts to force nearly one million civilians from Gaza City to make way for heavy strikes. Read, sign and share the petition » …

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

August 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM

Update: Silence is Complicity

  Friends, As we continue to rally our leaders to speak out about the horrors in Gaza, Netanyahu and his allies appear determined to continue plunging deeper into catastrophe. Following a marathon nine-hour meeting last night, Israel’s security cabinet approved plans for the intensific…

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

August 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM

🛑 Oppose This Insanity 🛑

  Friends, This is insanity. The world is recoiling in horror from images coming out of Gaza. Starving families. Emaciated hostages. Flattened cities. Yet Netanyahu’s response is to escalate further. Today, as hostage families protested outside, Israel’s security cabinet considered ap…

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

August 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM

Share Now: Outrage Grows in Israel

  Friends, "Netanyahu is leading Israel and the hostages to doom.” That’s what hostage families had to say amid reports that Prime Minister Netanyahu is planning to intensify the war in Gaza and fully occupy the Gaza Strip, a step which right-wing coalition partners see as essential…

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  Ben Linder, J Streeter · [email protected]

August 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Help me make some meaning of this killing

  Friends, My friend Awdah was shot and killed by an extremist settler last week. I’m asking for your help to make some meaning of it. Awdah was raising three young kids in the South Hebron Hills. Since he was a teenager, he’d been committed to nonviolent advocacy against Israeli militar…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

August 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This week: Jewish Leaders Speak Out 📣 | Pressure Builds in Washington 🏛️ | J Street Mourns Killing of Palestinian Activist Awdah Hathaleen 🕯️ | Public Calls, Rallies and Conversations 🎥 | J Street Welcomes French and British Pledges to Recognize Palestinian Statehood 🇵🇸 | This Week’s Must-Reads 📖 |…

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