J Street Conversations

Featuring: Sam Berkman, National Director of Communal Relations, J Street Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO, T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights Rabbi Josh Weinberg, URJ Vice President for Israel and Reform Zionism; Executive Director of ARZA Rabbi Deborah Waxman, President and CEO, Reconstructing Judaism Offir Gutelzon, co-founder, UnXeptable Rabbi Justus Baird, Senior Vice President, Shalom Hartman...

There is a shift happening in Israel. Images of suffering in Gaza are breaking through like never before. A growing number of reservists are refusing to serve in Gaza. Protesters are marching in the streets for a war-ending hostage deal. We’ll be joined by some of those advocates on the ground: Alana Zeitchik, a hostage family member, Max Kresch, a combat soldier refusing to return to serve in Gaz...

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Word on the Street Live with American Hostage Family Member Jonathan Dekel-Chen by J Street

Live with Brad Lander and Trump-Bibi Analysis by J Street

Featuring J Street Policy Fellows Frank Lowenstein and Yael Patir

Featuring Jeremy Ben-Ami, Ilan Goldenberg, Shifra Sered of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Author Laura E. Adkins, and Editor Talia Benamy

Featuring: Iran expert Danny Citrinowicz J Street Policy Fellow Frank Lowenstein J Street Director of Government Affairs Hannah Morris

The fighting between Israel and Iran is intensifying. Casualties on both sides are mounting. With residents of Tehran fleeing the capital and Israelis rushing into bomb shelters, the conflict is already taking an enormous toll on civilians with no end in sight. To assess everything at stake, we held a J Street Policy Center briefing featuring Iran experts Ali Vaez and Sima Shine, moderated by J St...

Last night, the Netanyahu government unilaterally struck Iran, damaging a nuclear facility and assassinating top Iranian military leaders and nuclear scientists. Iran responded swiftly, launching at least a hundred drones that the IDF has intercepted. What might come next – and the toll it could take on innocent Israelis and Iranians – is deeply disturbing. J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami was jo...

President Trump takes off for the Middle East on Monday. There’s no shortage of pressing issues up for discussion in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE. However, it's still unclear what Trump’s reaction will be to the Israeli government’s newly announced plans to re-seize large swaths of Gaza, and how the announcement might impact his discussions. Notably missing from the itinerary? A stop in Israel....

As American supporters of Israel, we share a profound love for the Jewish homeland. And yet we see so clearly the dangerous, authoritarian path its leaders are taking. We feel this struggle even stronger as Israel celebrates its 77th Yom Ha'atzmaut, its Independence Day. J Street, Hatikvah and our Progressive Israel Network partners gathered for a discussion featuring IKAR's Rabbi Sharon Brous and...

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 of Israeli, Palestinian and American leaders, and the moral depravity of allowing this situation to continue. Hejoined J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami to discuss his take on where we find ourse...

This year, J Street’s friends at the Forum for Regional Thinking and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute released a landmark report answering the question we’ve heard a lot in the past year and a half: What else is Israel to do? Titled 'The Present Day: Peacemaking Alternatives for Israeli Policy,' the report outlines an alternative path for Israel – one that it’s still not too late to pursue – desig...

Trump's assault on our freedoms and higher education writ large is being done in our names – our fears about antisemitism exploited to push an extreme, anti-democratic agenda. J Street U leaders will be the first to tell you that it’s only making things worse. We spoke directly with students Lauren Haines at the University of Michigan and Ma’ayan Stutman-Shaw from Brown University, who told us how...

Netanyahu’s decision this week to reignite the anguish of the Gaza war is a dark, painful milestone. In response, we were joined by Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin and Ilan Goldenberg to discuss the impact on Israelis, Palestinians, the United States and our own community.

Former West Bank and Gaza USAID Mission Director Larry Garber and Israeli-based peace advocate Dr. Yael Braudo-Bahat join J Street for an on-the-ground perspective of Trump’s and Musk’s efforts to shut down USAID.

The latest reports indicate that rather than moving forward to the next phase of the deal, Prime Minister Netanyahu is seeking to extend Phase I, aiming to secure the release of more hostages while avoiding any commitment to end the war. The release of all remaining hostages and a lasting ceasefire look likely to be delayed – a devastating blow to Israeli families with loved ones still in captivit...

J Street and the Jewish Democratic Council of America co-hosted a conversation with JDCA CEO Halie Soifer, Democratic political strategist Simon Rosenberg, J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami, and Jewish polling expert Jim Gerstein discussing the latest polling and how the Jewish vote can and will make a difference in the final weeks of the campaign.

The J Street Policy Center in conjunction with PIN hosted a conversation to analyze the October 7 attack’s broader impact. It focused on the devastating impact on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, including on the future of Palestinian leadership, governance, and society. It will also survey the impact of October 7 on neighboring Arab states – Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt – as well as I...

One year since the horrific Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 that shook the world, Israel remains at war in Gaza with hostages still in captivity. J Street and the Progressive Israel Network, a coalition of 12 organizations dedicated to democracy, equality and peace in Israel, held a commemoration event remembering the victims of that fateful day, lifting up the stories of the hostages, a...

Media attention was jerked back to the West Bank Friday following the horrifying news that a 26-year-old American peace advocate had been shot dead by Israeli forces. The news comes amid ongoing reports of an unprecedented rise in settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, increased IDF military operations and a near-total lack of accountability for soldiers and settlers alike. To dis...

After weeks of stalled negotiations, diplomats are back at the table working to hammer out a deal to free the hostages and end a war that has dragged on far too long. Dr. Shira Efron and former Egyptian diplomat Ambassador Hesham Youssef know the strategic calculations and political pressures at play – and they joined us to pull back the curtain on what’s at stake, what’s standing in the way and h...

Live from Chicago and against the backdrop of the Democratic National Convention, join J Street and the Forward for a conversation diving deep into the challenges facing Democrats amid the Israel-Hamas war. J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami moderated a discussion featuring pollster and American Jewish public opinion expert Jim Gerstein and the Forward’s editor-in-chief Jodi Rudoren. Together, our...

J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami was joined by Middle East security experts Barbara Slavin and Danny Citrinowicz for an emergency briefing on the risk of escalation and the devastation an all-out war would bring to millions of civilians in the region. Learn more about J Street at jstreet.org.