Melissa Weiss

Tel Aviv

Born & bred in the first capital of New York. Olah hadasha in Tel Aviv. Executive editor @j_insider Email: [email protected]

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In Israel, Fetterman slams party’s ‘pandering’ to far left in face of ‘reality’ on the ground

1 month ago | jewishinsider.com | Melissa Weiss

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) was awakened last Thursday morning by an announcement made through his Jerusalem hotel’s intercom system, alerting guests to an incoming ballistic missile attack by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen. “I explained to my wife, and I said, ‘Well, this is the kind of reality of Israel, where they have these things,’” Fetterman told reporters in Jerusalem hours later. It’s that reality that Fetterman thinks many in his party don’t understand.
Schumer conversation on antisemitism with Ritchie Torres postponed

1 month ago | jewishinsider.com | Melissa Weiss

A book event for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) moderated by Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY), slated for Tuesday night at New York’s Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center, has been postponed, a staffer for the Manhattan venue confirmed to Jewish Insider on Monday.
Schumer book tour on antisemitism postponed

1 month ago | jewishinsider.com | Melissa Weiss

A tour around Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) upcoming book, Antisemitism in America, has been postponed as the New York Democrat faces blowback over his recent vote to avert a government shutdown. An event for Schumer moderated by Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY), slated for Tuesday night at New York’s Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center, was removed from the center’s events calendar over the weekend.
Schumer book tour on antisemitism postponed

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Melissa Weiss

A tour around Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) upcoming book, Antisemitism in America, has been postponed as the New York Democrat faces blowback over his recent vote to avert a government shutdown. An event for Schumer moderated by Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY), slated for Tuesday night at New Yorks Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center, was removed from the center’s events calendar over the weekend.
Head of State Dept. Office of Palestinian Affairs to leave Jerusalem later this month

1 month ago | jewishinsider.com | Melissa Weiss

Hans Wechsel, the head of the State Department’s Office of Palestinian Affairs in Jerusalem, plans to leave his position at the end of March, four people with knowledge of Wechsel’s decision confirmed to Jewish Insider on Tuesday.
Hostage Families Forum taps Danny Bar Giora as new leader

1 month ago | jewishinsider.com | Melissa Weiss

The Hostage and Missing Families Forum announced on Wednesday the hiring of Danny Bar Giora as the new CEO of the group, which advocates for the release of the hostages in Gaza. Bar Giora succeeds Ori Hacohen, who has led the organization in an interim capacity since June 2024 and will return to his position as an executive at BDO Consulting.
Four female hostages freed from Gaza in second round of releases

2 months ago | jewishinsider.com | Melissa Weiss

Hamas released four Israeli hostages on Saturday as part of the implementation of the first phase of the cease-fire agreement reached between the terror group and Israel earlier this month. Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa and Naama Levy — who were among the seven female soldiers taken from the Nahal Oz military base on Oct. 7 — were released to Red Cross custody on Saturday morning before being transferred to the IDF and returned to Israel.
U.N. secretary general predicts a ‘deeply reshaped’ Middle East

Jan 23, 2025 | jewishinsider.com | Melissa Weiss

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres predicted on Wednesday that the Middle East would be “deeply reshaped” by the conflicts and emerging new governments across the region in the last year.
Greenblatt: How the Jewish community can address the post-10/7 ‘inferno’ of antisemitism

Jan 7, 2025 | jewishinsider.com | Melissa Weiss

In a hearing before the Knesset’s Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Committee on Tuesday, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt acknowledged that the Jewish community had fallen short in its efforts to combat antisemitism, resulting in what he described as an “inferno” against the Jewish community in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks and subsequent war in Gaza.
Fifteen minutes with Brianna Wu

Jan 6, 2025 | jewishinsider.com | Melissa Weiss

Democratic activist Brianna Wu has been a darling of the progressive left for the last decade, after a coordinated attack on the video game developer by Gamergate supporters sparked her activism in politics. Wu mounted two congressional bids in Massachusetts’ 8th Congressional District before cofounding Rebellion PAC in 2020. Her politics largely aligned with the progressive left, and she once referred to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as “one of the best politicians in America.”But on Oct.