https://pjmedia.com/whither-american-jewry-and-berkeley%89%DB%AAs-hillel/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usSat, 30 May 2026 06:45:03 -0400<![CDATA[In the span of a week, the administration has taken two important steps in the right direction. First, the Food and Drug Administration moved forward on flavored vaping products for adults after President Trump pushed the agency to stop dragging its feet. Then, the president signaled a smarter approach to natural 7-OH, a product millions of adults use for energy, pain relief, and mood support. Now, with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary out, Trump has a chance to make that course correction stick.]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 22:19:00 -0400<![CDATA[Gerard Scimeca]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[FDA]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]><![CDATA[Science]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://pjmedia.com/gerard-scimeca/2026/05/29/trumps-fda-course-correction-is-a-win-for-consumers-n4953374<![CDATA[Welcome to "The New Monroe Doctrine," where we talk about what's going on in the Western Hemisphere and how it might impact the United States.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 21:28:00 -0400<![CDATA[Sarah Anderson]]><![CDATA[Brazil]]><![CDATA[Colombia]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Cuba]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Marco Rubio]]><![CDATA[Socialism]]>https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/05/29/the-new-monroe-doctrine-coups-and-elections-elections-and-coups-n4953385<![CDATA[If you don’t want something to make news, you typically announce it on a Friday when most of the country’s newsrooms are empty or almost empty. It’s called “the Friday news dump.” Historically, by Friday, the Sunday editions of the major dailies are mostly put to bed, with the exception of something earth-shattering happening.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 21:18:00 -0400<![CDATA[Tim O'Brien]]>https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/05/29/trump-bypasses-nancy-mace-endorsing-pam-evette-in-south-carolinas-governors-race-n4953400<![CDATA[The Part I took in Defence of Cptn. Preston and the Soldiers, procured me Anxiety, and Obloquy enough. It was, however, one of the most gallant, generous, manly and disinterested Actions of my whole Life, and one of the best Pieces of Service I ever rendered my Country. Judgment of Death against those Soldiers would have been as foul a Stain upon this Country as the Executions of the Quakers or Witches, anciently. As the Evidence was, the Verdict of the Jury was exactly right.]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 20:30:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Churchill Barrow]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[Law and Order]]><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-barrow/2026/05/29/was-john-adams-ethical-in-his-defense-of-the-redcoats-n4953373<![CDATA[South Carolina residents are still talking about what could’ve made that resounding boom heard for over 100 miles in South Carolina late in the afternoon of May 28]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 20:12:00 -0400<![CDATA[Jennifer Rust]]><![CDATA[Science]]><![CDATA[South Carolina]]><![CDATA[Space]]><![CDATA[Video]]>https://pjmedia.com/jennifer-rust/2026/05/29/bafflingly-large-boom-leaves-south-carolinians-posting-anxiously-as-everyone-asks-what-was-that-n4953397<![CDATA[The human rights violations in Pakistan have reached such an alarming rate that the organization Genocide Watch has called for genocide monitoring in Pakistan.]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 19:18:00 -0400<![CDATA[Uzay Bulut]]><![CDATA[Pakistan]]>https://pjmedia.com/uzay-bulut/2026/05/29/genocide-watch-issues-alert-for-a-possible-genocide-in-pakistan-n4953372<![CDATA[Kathleen “Katie” Thomas, a Florida adaptive athlete and social media creator, got pulled over in Lake Worth Beach on Feb. 11 when a sheriff's deputy claimed she'd been holding and using a phone in her right hand while driving.]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 18:57:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Florida]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/05/29/she-didnt-have-a-right-hand-but-he-wrote-the-ticket-anyway-n4953395<![CDATA[My favorite villain from Grimm's Fairy Tales is back!&nbsp;]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 18:12:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/05/29/the-peoples-house-has-a-clinton-memory-problem-n4953394<![CDATA[In today's chapter of the never-ending lawfare against Donald Trump and the activist judiciary that loves to entertain it, we have some rulings from a federal judge on the changes made to the Kennedy Center.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 17:36:00 -0400<![CDATA[Sarah Anderson]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Judges]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/05/29/judge-orders-trumps-name-to-be-removed-from-kennedy-center-n4953390<![CDATA[We've all watched movies about court dramas, where the honorable judge holds court, and then, when necessary, the judge declares, CHAMBERS! NOW!]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 16:53:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Georgia]]><![CDATA[Judges]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/05/29/obama-appointed-judge-turns-chambers-into-a-scandal-n4953388<![CDATA[Michael Angel Alvarez received taxpayer money from the city of Los Angeles as a “peace ambassador.” He also happens to be a member of a terrorist gang, a convicted murderer, and the bearer of the nickname “Diablo.”]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 16:48:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Domestic Terrorism]]><![CDATA[FBI]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/29/meet-the-la-paid-peace-ambassador-whos-a-murderous-terrorist-n4953383<![CDATA[Author’s note:&nbsp;Whiskey Wednesday is usually a midweek reward, but every now and then, the calendar hands you an excuse to bend the rules. When the opportunity for a new experience like the one I’m writing about below comes around, you don’t check the day of the week. You grab a glass.]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 16:08:00 -0400<![CDATA[Chris Queen]]><![CDATA[Conservatism]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2026/05/29/whisky-weekend-makers-mark-turns-wheat-whisky-into-something-worth-thinking-about-n4953386<![CDATA[Federal agents don't roll into East Garfield Park in Chicago in riot gear because someone forgot to pay parking tickets. They come prepared when a suspect's record includes robbery, weapons allegations, stolen vehicles, and possible flight.]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 15:20:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Manney]]><![CDATA[Chicago]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[FBI]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/05/29/the-fbi-took-down-a-convicted-bank-robber-not-a-choirboy-n4953382<![CDATA[How do Democrats feel about the new memoir from Jill Biden that’s coming out? Jessica Tarlov, the lone leftist on The Five, isn’t happy at all, and she made no effort to hide her frustration Thursday night. According to Tarlov, Jill is reminding the public of something she desperately wants the country to move on from.]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 14:33:00 -0400<![CDATA[Matt Margolis]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Greg Gutfeld]]><![CDATA[Jessica Tarlov]]><![CDATA[Jill Biden]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]>https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/05/29/jessica-tarlov-accidentally-admits-the-democrats-biggest-dirty-secret-n4953380<![CDATA[A new House Judiciary Committee release shows that the Biden-Harris administration misused funds to fuel anti-Israel activism both here and abroad and help organizations with ties to terrorist groups.]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 14:19:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]><![CDATA[USAID]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/29/biden-admin-funded-anti-israel-protests-terror-tied-ngos-n4953376<![CDATA[According to court records, I have two children. Because I’m so gosh-darn manly, both my children are boys. (‘Cause that’s how genetics works.) Therefore, I’ve never had to give my kids “the talk” — but I have plenty of friends and relatives with adolescent girls, so I know how “the talk” goes:]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 13:42:00 -0400<![CDATA[Scott Pinsker]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[GOP]]><![CDATA[Ken Paxton]]><![CDATA[Texas]]><![CDATA[James Talarico]]>https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2026/05/29/the-democrats-greatest-fear-the-gop-will-turn-james-talarico-into-a-creepy-unmanly-weirdo-n4953378<![CDATA[The U.S. government is considering designating a “terrorist-infested” United Nations agency as a foreign terror organization, and frankly, that designation is long overdue.]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 13:08:00 -0400<![CDATA[Catherine Salgado]]><![CDATA[Hamas]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[United Nations]]>https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/29/please-do-it-us-mulls-terror-designation-for-unrwa-as-1500-hamas-tied-staff-found-n4953370<![CDATA[The roller coaster continues.]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 13:07:00 -0400<![CDATA[Rabbi Michael Barclay]]><![CDATA[Bible]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[JD Vance]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]><![CDATA[Masoud Pezeshkian]]>https://pjmedia.com/rabbi-michael-barclay/2026/05/29/rabbi-michael-barclays-iran-war-update-for-may-29-n4953371<![CDATA[Hello, and welcome to Friday, May 29, 2026. Today is National Alligator Day. It's also National Paperclip Day and Mount Everest Day, which celebrates the day in 1953 when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal were the first to reach the summit (the latter on his birthday).&nbsp;]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 11:54:00 -0400<![CDATA[Eric Florack]]><![CDATA[Amazon]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Jeff Bezos]]><![CDATA[New York]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]>https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/05/29/the-one-with-jeff-bezos-n4953363<![CDATA[Greetings, West Coast, Messed Coast™ readers! This is the place where residents of other states come to verify that they don’t have it so bad, and where lawmakers could, if they bothered to look, find out that their great idea of the week has already been tried and failed. Indeed, in reading the West Coast, Messed Coast™ weekly update, you’ve arrived at the land where proof of concept has no expiration date and where money for every cockamamie idea is in endless supply.&nbsp;]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 11:40:00 -0400<![CDATA[Victoria Taft]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Gavin Newsom]]><![CDATA[Hunting]]><![CDATA[Karen Bass]]><![CDATA[Spencer Pratt]]>https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2026/05/29/west-coast-messed-coast-oregon-is-one-step-closer-to-outlawing-food-n4953369