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

Dear Secretary Bessent and Secretary Lutnick: We write on behalf of the National Jewish Advocacy Center to request that your Departments enforce the federal anti-boycott laws that regulate American companies’ participation in foreign boycotts in response to Ireland’s and Spain’s enactment of state boycotts of Israel. On July 7, 2026, the Dáil passed, without a vote, the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill, which

From NYPost.com: The New York Times is facing a threatened shareholder lawsuit over its editorial oversight and coverage of several high-profile stories, including the Senate bid of Graham Platner. ZUMAPRESS.com From FreeBeacon.com: A growing coalition of law firms representing a New York Times Company shareholder is demanding the publisher turn over its "books and records" for an investigation "into whether the company's board has abdicated its basic oversight duties" follow

GAD SAAD SPEAKING TO A PANEL AT THE WORLD SYMPOSIUM AGAINST ANTIZIONISM (PHOTO: SHIRI PASTERNAK) Mark Goldfededer, CEO and Director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, Inc. (NJAC), argued that immutable identity was a solid legal defense in cases alleging discrimination against Jews, since “Zionism is an integral part of our identity, changing it would be very dramatic, and it would be abhorrent for the government to try and do so.” Immutable identity is a protected categ

“Several U.S. charities received letters last month from the Government Accountability Office seeking to “interview” each organization’s leader about its “compliance with IRS requirements.” The charities promote different kinds of causes, but they have one thing in common: They all support Israeli communities in the West Bank. Among them are One Israel Fund and at least five other groups that asked not to be named. The GAO is an agency without any authority to investigate or

Photo credit: Erik Pendzich, via Alamy Zohran Mamdani has a universal principle, and it applies to exactly one country on earth. Asked on ABC’s This Week on Sunday whether he supports Israel as a Jewish state, the mayor of New York said he could not support “any state that privileges one religion over another, whether it be Israel or Saudi Arabia or anywhere else.” Equality, he said, “should be enshrined in every country in the world.” Every country. Let us hold him to it. St

On June 28, 2026, ABC News’ Jonathan Karl sat down for an interview with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The topics centered around the recent democratic primaries in New York City and his support for certain candidates and the positions they hold. When Karl asked the self-described anti-Zionist about Israel, he failed to challenge Mamdani’s flawed definition of Jewishness or his hypocrisy regarding democratic rights. After Mamdani first lambasted Israeli actions in Gaza