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Elon Musk departs the Capitol following a meeting with Senate Republicans, in Washington, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
March 13, 2026, 4:15 pm
Lawsuit says DOGE used ChatGPT to tag Jewish-themed grants as DEI, then canceled them
Plaintiffs allege broad cuts last year aimed at diversity equity and inclusion targeted Holocaust-related projects, even as some argue that DEI efforts don’t aim at Jews anyway
By Andrew Lapin
Tikvah Fund Israel CEO Amiad Cohen and US conservative author and speaker Ben Shapiro in Jerusalem at a Tikvah Fund event featuring Jordan Peterson, October 6, 2022 (Courtesy)
September 16, 2025, 10:48 am
US gives $10m grant to right-wing Jewish Tikvah Fund to combat antisemitism
American conservative Jewish nonprofit runs educational programs, fellowships, and media projects in the US
By ToI Staff
President Donald Trump, surrounded by religious leaders, signs an executive order establishing the Religious Liberty Commission, during a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden of the White House, May 1, 2025. (AP/Evan Vucci)
May 17, 2025, 9:59 pm
Trump names 4 Orthodox rabbis among advisers to new Religious Liberty Commission
New appointees include Jewish activists at right-wing advocacy groups Heritage Foundation and Tikvah Fund
By JTA
Omri Miran (center) from Kibbutz Nir Oz, with his wife Lishay (left) and daughter Roni; Omri was taken captive by Hamas terrorists to Gaza on October 7, 2023 (Noa Sharvit/Courtesy)
April 7, 2025, 3:22 am
‘His name is Omri Miran’: PM panned after failing to name Hungarian-Israeli hostage
PM talks to wife of Omri Miran after referring to him as ‘the Hungarian hostage’ on social media; father says premier’s office didn’t respond to family’s request to meet with Orban
By Nava Freiberg
Israelis opposed to the governmnet's judicial overhaul protest outside the Tikvah Fund's offices in New York City, March 8, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
June 2, 2023, 9:20 pm
Tikvah Fund alumni urge group to cut support for think tank behind judicial overhaul
In letter, 25 academics ask conservative non-profit to cut ties with Kohelet Policy Forum, saying the organization seeks to ‘subvert Israeli democracy’
By Luke Tress
Israelis opposed to the government's judicial overhaul protest outside the Tikvah Fund's offices in New York City, March 8, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
March 10, 2023, 3:26 am
Israel activists in New York take aim at US group backing judicial overhaul push
Protesters hold rally at office of Tikvah Fund, closely tied to MK Rothman and Israeli think tank Kohelet, both deeply involved in government’s bid to rein in judiciary
By Luke Tress
File: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban holds a copy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's memoir on November 3, 2022. (Viktor Orban/Twitter)
January 20, 2023, 7:32 pm
Orban: Israel and Hungary have ‘great results’ in ‘building conservative community’
Right-wing Hungarian PM tweets prognosis after meeting with head of conservative Jewish organization’s Israel branch
By ToI Staff
Canadian author and psychologist Jordan Peterson shakes hands after his lecture in Jerusalem, October 6, 2022 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
October 12, 2022, 10:53 pm
Jordan Peterson, ‘lightning rod’ of US culture wars, receives warm embrace in Israel
Thousands gather to hear Canadian psychologist in Jerusalem, with some seeing it as a harbinger of US-style ideas about to transform Israeli conservatism
By Lazar Berman
Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights (Courtesty via JTA)
September 23, 2022, 6:46 am
Jewish think tank to counter conservative ideas, provide forum for Israel critics
Progressive leaders’ new Emor Institute for Bold Jewish Thought aims to influence discourse and US policy on racism, immigration and LGBTQ rights, boost scholars critical of Israel
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting at The Venetian hotel-casino November 6, 2021, in Las Vegas. (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
June 13, 2022, 8:24 am
Ron DeSantis slams ‘woke gender ideology’ in speech to Jewish group in Manhattan
Defiant Florida governor, whose appearance at Tikvah Fund event draws protests outside, says ‘wokeness’ is a cancer destroying the US
By Jacob Henry
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks at Miami's Freedom Tower, on May 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)
June 11, 2022, 5:48 pm
Planned DeSantis speech in NYC to conservative Jews draws LGBTQ ire
NY senator, gay rights group decry GOP governor’s ‘outrageous’ appearance at event organized by Tikvah Fund, citing his support for law barring teaching on sexual orientation
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN
From left to right: David Weinberg, Greg Rosshandler, Efraim Inbar, Zeev Elkin, Yoram Halevy at the launching conference of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, November 6, 2017 (courtesy)
November 7, 2017, 1:58 am
New hawkish security think tank launched in Jerusalem
Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, which recruited heavily from the Begin-Sadat Center, wants to promote a ‘conservative strategic worldview’
By Raphael Ahren
Shalem College (courtesy)
November 1, 2017, 4:15 pm
Israel’s first liberal arts college gets $16 million boost from Tikvah Fund
Shalem College brings the American humanities model to the Jewish state to help cultivate a new generation of understanding leadership
By Yaakov Schwartz
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