FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 17, 2026 CONTACT: National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) Phone: (332) 278-1100 Email: press@njaclaw.org Malki Roth’s Family Files Federal Anti-Terrorism Act Lawsuit Against Ahlam Tamimi Civil action filed in Washington, D.C. seeks to hold the convicted Sbarro bombing operative personally accountable for the killing of 15-year-old American Malka “Malki” Roth The Estate of Malka "Malki" Roth, et al. v. Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-TamimiCase No. 1:26-cv-

Photo from FreeBeacon: Aftermath of the 2001 Sbarro restaurant bombing in Jerusalem (Courtney Kealy/Getty Images), Ahlam Aref Ahmad al-Tamimi The family of a 15-year-old American girl who was killed in one of the most high-profile terrorist attacks in Israel's history is suing the Hamas operative who planned the operation in an American court for the first time, hoping to secure justice 25 years after the horrific bombing claimed their daughter's life, according to a copy of

“Israeli medics and volunteers treat the injured in the aftermath of the Sbarro pizzeria suicide bombing at the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, on Aug. 9, 2001. Credit: Getty Images.” Mark Goldfeder of the National Jewish Advocacy Center told JNS that a judgment would follow Ahlam Tamimi “if she travels to any jurisdiction that will recognize it, and it forecloses her from ever monetizing her celebrity through any channel that touches the American fi

Police at the scene in Jaffa where Palestinian terrorist Bashar Masalha murdered U.S. citizen Taylor Force and wounded 11 other civilians, March 8, 2016. Photo by Eitan Elhadez/TPS. (Aug. 11, 2026 / JNS) A federal judge on Monday denied a motion by the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Liberation Organization to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that their terrorist-payment programs, dubbed “play-for-slay,” helped induce two Hamas attacks. The plaintiffs are Stuart Force, fa

Harvard University. Photo credit: CampusReform.org The Trump administration is asking a federal appeals court to overturn a ruling that restored nearly $2.2 billion in research funding to Harvard University, arguing the federal government has authority to condition taxpayer funding on universities’ compliance with federal requirements. The appeal stems from the administration’s April 2025 decision to freeze billions in federal research grants after demanding reforms at Harvar

Photo credit: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images Mark Goldfeder, CEO and director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told the Post that NJAC is referring the matter to the Department of Investigation and the Conflicts of Interest Board. It is also requesting the city hall server logs. “City employees may not use public resources for political messaging, and public officials may not deceive the public they serve; that has been New York law since long before anyone w

NJAC Senior Litigation Counsel Arielle Klepach testified today before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights on the topic of the Muslim Brotherhood Network in America. Watch the full subcommittee hearing here. Here testimony starts at minute 47: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/hidden-in-plain-sight-confronting-the-muslim-brotherhood-network-in-america-08-05-2026?_cb=1785963967310

Photo: RealClearEducation.com The university classroom is where the West decides what it believes, and for two decades, on the subject of the Jews, it has often been deciding wrong, largely uncontested. We lost the classroom quietly, course by course. This week, eleven professors in Touro University’s new Teaching Fellowship to Combat Campus Antisemitism begin the work of taking it back. The campus eruptions after October 7 were not spontaneous. Somebody assigned the readings

Chief White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks at a White House press briefing, Nov. 22, 2022. Credit: Erin Scott/White House. Excerpt: "Mark Goldfeder, a rabbi and CEO and director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS that rabbinic law “would be more protective of Fauci than the Fifth Amendment, and that is exactly what convicts him.” “Jewish criminal law does not merely permit a defendant to stay silent,” according to Goldfeder, who is known to cite

Photo by Jim Watson /AFP via Getty Images On a Friday afternoon in January 2021, Daniel Grand, an Orthodox Jew living in University Heights, prepared to do what Jews have done for thousands of years: gather ten men in a quorum called a minyan, and pray. Jewish law requires communal prayer with a quorum of ten adult males for certain prayers, including the Kaddish, the mourner’s prayer. His synagogue was too far to walk, and his faith forbids driving on the Sabbath. So, he wou

Amicus brief in StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology warns that the decision below leaves Jewish students without a civil-rights remedy ATLANTA, GA — The National Jewish Advocacy Center filed an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and Rick Scott, and NJAC itself, in support of the petitioners in StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, N

Photo: TheHill.com New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani told the New York Times that he is in “an active conversation” with the city’s lawyers about whether he can order the New York Police Department to seize Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations General Assembly in September. As a candidate, he promised to have Netanyahu apprehended at the airport. As mayor, he now says, “Whatever the law allows me to do in New York City, that’s what we will do, but we w

Photo: vinnews.com "Mark Goldfeder, a rabbi and CEO, and director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS that the apparent lack of Jews on the panel “is all part of a pattern and practice of under-protecting Jewish residents in this city.” “It is the normalization of antisemitic hate,” Goldfeder said, “normalizing it up and down the pipeline.” “If you were to pull 18 at random, you would expect there to be several Jewish members,” he told JNS. “When they call it ‘tr

A free public panel — hosted by the Atlanta Israel Coalition and the Rhode Island Coalition for Israel, with a wide coalition of partner organizations — confronting a pattern that has shadowed American victims of Palestinian terror for a generation: terrorists who murder U.S. citizens abroad are convicted, imprisoned, and then released in hostage and prisoner exchanges, after which they evade extradition and live freely, often unpunished. The panel brought together four peopl

The lawsuit that Democracy for the Arab World Now filed this week in the Southern District of New York is a confession with a case number. DAWN, joined by a ten-member outfit calling itself the Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide, asks a federal court to strike down Executive Order 14203. Signed by President Trump in February 2025, the order declared a national emergency to authorize sanctions targeting people and entities helping the International Criminal Court investigate

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s new rule limiting how long foreign students can stay on visas could make it more difficult for some anti-Israel activists to remain in the country indefinitely, experts told JNS. ... Mark Goldfeder, director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS that under the “duration of status” system, “a foreign student was vetted exactly once, and then never again, sometimes for a decade.” “We have spent the last few years watching w

The lawsuit that Democracy for the Arab World Now filed this week in the Southern District of New York is a confession with a case number. DAWN, joined by a ten-member outfit calling itself the Taxpayer Alliance Against Genocide, asks a federal court to strike down Executive Order 14203. Signed by President Trump in February 2025, the order declared a national emergency to authorize sanctions targeting people and entities helping the International Criminal Court investigate U