Kaplan and her team very much want their Charlottesville case to come to trial and have the same impact as other high-profile cases.

The senate settled on text that avoids hot-button issues that members of each party have used to depict the other as susceptible to anti-Semitism.

Jewish nonprofits have used past grants to add barriers or install security systems at Jewish community centers, schools and synagogues.

Some candidates started by decrying anti-Semitism. Others started by holding up the U.S.-Israel relationship.