In March, Israelis will head to the ballot box for their third national election in a year. Israeli elections are famously tumultuous, but this year of political volatility has frustrated and divided Israeli society. Join J Street Chicago for a conversation with Israel Democracy Institute founder Dr. Arye Carmon to make sense of this complicated […]

Less than a week before Israel's election on March 2, Dr. Carmon will discuss the most current events, the challenges facing Israel's democracy and the undercurrents that define Israeli society and politics.

Learn the results of Dahlia Scheindlin's new poll covering the Israeli public's opinion of Netanyahu's response to the pandemic, who should lead the next government and much, much more.

While Americans are being told to keep social distance, conditions at detention facilities at the US border make that impossible. Given overcrowding, experts warn that outbreaks could be disastrous. We'll talk about what's being done to protect undocumented immigrants in US detention facilities with Melanie Nezer of HIAS.

For months, Netanyahu and his fellow right-wing leaders have pledged to carry out unilateral annexations as soon as possible — with the deliberate goal of making the occupation permanent and preventing the creation of a viable Palestinian state alongside Israel. Now that Blue and White party leader MK Benny Gantz has agreed to negotiate the […]

Last week, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) led ten fellow senators in sending an urgent message to the Trump administration: Ease economic sanctions against countries where those restrictions are seriously hampering the response to COVID-19 -- specifically Iran and Venezuela. “Helping these nations save lives during this crisis is the right thing to do from a […]

Jeremy Ben-Ami developed J Street’s Conflict 101 presentation to arm members of Congress, pundits and community leaders with a basic understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — the geography, demography, history and core issues that will need to be resolved to achieve peace. Until now only conducted for participants on J Street’s delegations to Israel and […]

Join us to hear from MK Yair Golan, a former deputy chief of staff of the IDF who is now a member of Israel’s progressive Democratic Union party. With decades of high-level military command experience under his belt, Golan is a leading voice decrying the harmful impact of ongoing occupation on Israel’s security. On the […]

Join us to hear from Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Rep. Andy Levin, two of J Street's leading allies on Capitol Hill, about how they're responding to the COVID 19 crisis in their communities and across the country.