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Jonathan D. Salant

Washington, D.C.

DC Columnist at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

DC columnist, @PittsburghPG. @SPJDC Hall of Fame. Former president @PressClubDC, @RegionalReports & @SPJDC. @dcmediasoftball player-coach.

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  • 1 week ago | jns.org | Jonathan D. Salant

    (June 16, 2025 / JNS)Noa Beer walked past the replica of the stage where entertainers prepared to entertain some 4,000 people at a music festival in an Israeli national park. Psychedelic lights rotated around the “Nova” logo, the community that arranged the concert. The nearby bar held actual glasses from the festival, a tablet damaged by bullets and the menu for the festival. She had been there in the early morning of Oct.

  • 2 weeks ago | jns.org | Jonathan D. Salant

    (June 11, 2025 / JNS)Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) failed his bid to become the nation’s seventh Jewish governor on Tuesday, when he lost New Jersey’s Democratic primary to his colleague Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.). “We ran as the lower taxes, lower costs governor, and as a fighter for hardworking Jersey families, and we finished the campaign that way,” Gottheimer said in his concession speech.

  • 2 weeks ago | jns.org | Jonathan D. Salant

    (June 10, 2025 / JNS)They remembered Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky at the U.S. Capitol Tuesday evening, as lawmakers of both political parties vowed to continue the fight against the Jew-hatred that has led to violence and the deaths of two young, Israeli embassy employees on a Washington street earlier this month.

  • 2 weeks ago | jns.org | Jonathan D. Salant

    (June 10, 2025 / JNS)The program that provides federal funding to help synagogues and other Jewish institutions increase security would get $305 million next year under a House Republican proposal, which the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center called “a far cry from what is needed in the face of exploding antisemitism.”House Appropriations Committee Republicans released the proposal before Monday’s consideration of the Homeland Security spending bill for the 12 months beginning Sept. 1.

  • 2 weeks ago | jns.org | Jonathan D. Salant

    (June 9, 2025 / JNS)A bipartisan resolution condemning recent violent attacks against Jewish Americans and calling on U.S. officials and others to speak out against antisemitism passed the House overwhelmingly on Monday. The measure was sponsored by Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.), who specifically cited the attack against pro-Israel marchers in Boulder, Colo., earlier this month; the murder of two Israeli embassy staff members on the streets of Washington, D.C. and the fire set at Pennsylvania Gov.

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Jonathan D. Salant
Jonathan D. Salant @JDSalant
16 Jun 25

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Jonathan D. Salant
Jonathan D. Salant @JDSalant
16 Jun 25

Covering the opening of the Nova festival exhibit at Gallery Place through the eyes of one of the survivors of the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023 https://t.co/oWXoONrcIl

Jonathan D. Salant
Jonathan D. Salant @JDSalant
16 Jun 25

RT @orionds: Last week, before Trump ordered ICE to stop targeting farmworkers, I talked to several GOP lawmakers about the open secret tha…