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US Vice President JD Vance speaks at Universal Contracting and Urban Tree Trimming, in Sterling Heights, Michigan, August 31, 2026. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)
September 1, 2026, 5:49 pm
Vance courts Jewish Republicans, but declines to clarify stance on Tucker Carlson
US vice president stresses importance of relationship with Israel in speech to Republican Jewish Coalition, blames rising antisemitism on immigration
By Joseph Strauss
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US Second Lady Usha Vance and US Vice President JD Vance attend an arrival ceremony for the British King and Queen on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 28, 2026. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI/AFP)
July 17, 2026, 10:53 am
Souring on JD Vance, many Jewish Republicans rally behind Marco Rubio for 2028
Prominent GOP figures don’t back a bid by the vice president amid concerns over his invoking conspiracy theories, and silence on right-wing antisemitism and voices like Tucker Carlson
By Joseph Strauss
Jacob Reses, second from the left, accompanies JD Vance to a meeting with Senate Republicans at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on November 16, 2022. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images via JTA)
June 12, 2026, 10:31 am
Jacob Reses, Vance’s Jewish chief of staff, to leave US administration
Reses, who began working for Vance during Senate campaign, is perhaps the closest Jewish official in VP’s orbit; Witkoff: ‘We haven’t seen the last of him’
By Joseph Strauss
Tucker Carlson attends a meeting with US President Donald Trump and oil executives in the East Room of the White House, January 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
June 6, 2026, 4:59 pm
Some Jewish Republicans think Carlson threat is fading; others worry he’ll run for president
Antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment in party spark debate at RJC gala as Rep. Randy Fine says biggest threat now comes from the left; watchdogs fear toxic rhetoric still being normalized
By Joseph Strauss
US Rep. Mike Lawler, of New York's 17th District, marches in the 2025 Israel Day Parade, on New York's Fifth Avenue, May 18, 2025. (Richard Drew/AP)
May 14, 2026, 12:26 pm
US Senator Rand Paul’s son accosts NY congressman with drunken antisemitic tirade
William Paul apologizes after berating Rep. Mike Lawler about ‘you Jews’; when told his comments were hateful, he had reportedly told lawmaker to ‘watch more Tucker Carlson’
By JTA and ToI Staff
Norman Podhoretz, a neoconservative author and former editor of Commentary magazine, is shown in 1971. (AP Photo)
December 17, 2025, 3:14 pm
Norman Podhoretz, influential and contentious Jewish neoconservative, dies at 95
Hardline editor of Commentary Magazine, once among the last of the ‘New York intellectuals,’ helped reshape national dialogue toward muscular foreign policy, social conservatism
By Hillel Italie
Conservative US political activist Jack Posobiec and New York Young Republican Club President Stefano Loudaros Forte hold up rosaries at the New York Young Republican Club's 113th Annual Gala at Cipriani Wall Street on December 13, 2025, in New York City. (Adam Gray / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
December 16, 2025, 7:32 pm
Antisemitism tensions rise as NYC Young Republicans host white supremacists, Germany’s AfD
Jewish Republican US lawmaker Inna Vernikov turns down invitation despite ‘honored guest’ status, slamming the party’s ‘hard right wing’
By Joseph Strauss
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, at podium, speaks during a news conference in Mineola, New York, March 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Philip Marcelo, File)
December 10, 2025, 4:59 am
Jewish Trump ally enters NY gubernatorial race, setting up primary against Stefanik
Bruce Blakeman of Long Island, who last year signed mask ban into law amid anti-Israel protests, launches campaign with video linking incumbent governor to ‘communist and antisemitic’ Mamdani
By Joseph Strauss
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) holds a press conference with US Vice President JD Vance at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, October 22, 2025. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
November 21, 2025, 5:27 pm
US Jewish conservatives are still waiting for JD Vance to condemn the antisemitic right
Participants at a Tikvah Fund event in NYC say they haven’t heard a serious response from the US vice president to the attempted mainstreaming of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish extremists
By Joseph Strauss
A sign for the Republican Jewish Coalition convention in Las Vegas, November 1, 2025. (Joseph Strauss); NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani campaigns in Brooklyn, November 1, 2025. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images via JTA)
November 3, 2025, 4:48 pm
Anti-Israel NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani looms large at national Republican Jewish confab
The Democratic frontrunner to head the city with the largest Jewish population outside Israel galvanizes the forum as attendees envision an extreme leftward shift rife with antisemitism
By Joseph Strauss
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz addresses the convention of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, October 30, 2025. (Joseph Strauss/ JTA)
November 1, 2025, 5:13 am
Ted Cruz to Jewish Republicans: Antisemitism is ‘an existential crisis in our party’
The Texas senator reiterates comments he made at a megachurch last week, including the core message that he’s recently seen more Jew-hatred on the right than ever before
By Joseph Strauss
FILE - Florida state Representative Randy Fine speaks in the House of Representatives, April 20, 2022, at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida. (AP Photo/Phil Sears, File)
April 2, 2025, 4:12 am
Jewish Republican Randy Fine wins special election in Florida for US House seat
RJC says victory by MAGA-style culture warrior and fierce defender of Israel will bring the GOP’s Jewish representation in Congress to 4 for the first time since the 1980s
By Agencies
Rep. Randy Fine, R-South Brevard County, closes on a gambling bill during a special session, May 19, 2021, in Tallahassee, Florida. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)
April 2, 2025, 12:50 am
Could Randy Fine lose? In Florida, Jewish Trump favorite faces unexpectedly close race
The bombastic state senator was favored to easily win the sixth congressional district on Tuesday, but is now only a few points ahead of a Muslim opponent who’s highly critical of Israel
By Andrew Lapin
Then-Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump arrives at Ohel Chabad-Lubavitch to visit the gravesite of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, October 7, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
November 22, 2024, 7:01 pm
With evangelicals locked, Trump wooed Chabad, the Amish, Copts
US president-elect courted niche communities, knowing every vote could be critical, particularly in swing states
By Peter Smith
Howard Lutnick speaks before Republican presidential nominee and former US president Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, October 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
November 19, 2024, 10:47 pm
Trump taps Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary
Billionaire financier, who has been supportive of Trump’s tariffs plan, will oversee issues related to foreign and domestic trade; had been maneuvering for Treasury nod
By Luke Tress
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