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AIPAC draws attention in Michigan Senate primary, but voters say it is not top issue

AIPAC’s super PAC has spent over $30 million to support Stevens’ campaign, toppling its previous records in a bid to prevent one of its most vocal Democratic critics from reaching the Senate. 

Campaign signs outside of an early voting site in Oak Park, Michigan, on August 2, 2026.
Event organizer Thomas Sidle holds an Antifa flag as demonstrators behind him hold a banner, during the March4Democracy march, in Washington DC, US, February 28, 2026.

US will focus counterterrorism efforts on left-wing groups, Rubio says

US Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks at his Primary Election event on June 9, 2026 in Blue Hill, Maine.

Graham Platner faces rape accusation, prompting Democrat demands he drop from Maine Senate race

PUBLIC DEFENDER Eli Northrup (left) and Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay face off on Tuesday.

Rabbi, Jewish lawyer in race for NYC Democratic primary face referendum on Mamdani, buffer zones


Biden budget pick Neera Tanden a lightning rod in Washington

Republican Senator John Cornyn said he "will not support any nominee who doesn't provide full transparency into their work on behalf of a foreign government."

Neera Tanden, US President-elect Joe Biden's nominee to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), speaks as President-elect Joe Biden announces nominees and appointees to serve on his economic policy team at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, US, December 1, 2020.

Georgian Democratic candidate defended by Jon Ossoff over Israel comments

“Reverend Warnock is a beloved friend and ally of Georgia’s Jewish community and a friend of Israel,” said Ossoff “Kelly Loeffler’s baseless attacks on the reverend make me sick."

  Democratic US Senate candidate Jon Ossoff greets a supporter after speaking at a campaign event at the Georgia State Railroad Museum in Savannah, Georgia, US November 12, 2020.

Pennsylvania’s Jewish A-G who’s making sure the state’s votes are counted

Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s Democratic and Jewish attorney general, is the man charged with ensuring the legality of the state’s electoral processes this year.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro appears on CNN on Nov. 4 to discuss vote counting in Pennsylvania

Democrats falling short in bid for control of US Senate

The final outcome may not be clear for some time.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) administers the oath of office to House members and delegates of the U.S. House of Representatives at the start of the 116th Congress inside the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 3, 2019

Most Jewish celebs back Biden

Natalie Portman, Karlie Kloss, and Zoe Kravitz, among others, took to social media to showcase support for the Biden-Harris campaign, and encourage their followers to vote.

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) is joined on stage by her running-mate, U.S Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, after she accepted the Democratic vice presidential nomination during an acceptance speech delivered for the largely virtual 2020 Democratic National Convention from the Chase Cen

Democrats hold shared values with American Jewry

Imagine if this low-acceptance rate of refugees was in place when we were fighting for the release of Soviet refuseniks. But we don’t have to imagine.

 US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Sunday.

Meet the 11 Jewish Democrats vying to join Congress for the first time

11 Jewish Democratic candidates would be new to Congress if they won, among the 34 Jewish Democrats running for the US House of Representatives.

Jake Auchincloss addresses the media after he is declared the winner of the Democratic primary in Massachusetts' 4th District in Newton, Mass., Sept. 4, 2020.

4 Jews running for Senate in 2020 including 2 who could help turn it blue

Here’s what you need to know about their backgrounds, big issues, backers and chances of winning in November.

A roll of I Voted Early stickers are seen at a polling site at the Milwaukee Public Library's Washington Park location in Milwaukee, on the first day of in-person voting in Wisconsin, US

Democratic PAC mailers depict Jewish GOP House candidate clutching money

“The mail pieces have nothing to do with David Richter’s religion, and everything to do with the fact he ran a company into the ground,” Komar, the super PAC’s independent expenditure director said.

A series of mailers show New Jersey Republican congressional candidate David Richter clutching or surrounded by $100 bills.

Democrats disavow 19-year-old Jewish nominee as 'unfit'

Should Coleman win the election in November, the party will likely launch an effort to keep him from being seated.

Aaron Coleman is a 19 years old community college student from Kansas City, Kansas.