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Aaron Bandler is an award-winning national reporter at JNS based in Los Angeles. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, he worked for nearly eight years at the Jewish Journal, and before that, at the Daily Wire.

“Whoever ends up getting this seat, they’re not going to have as much foreign policy experience as Lindsey Graham,” Christopher Cooper, a political science professor at Western Carolina University, told JNS.
Rabbi Yosef Langer of Chabad of San Francisco told JNS that blowing the shofar has been “bringing people together since the beginning of time, and baseball is a sport that brings all peoples together.”
“If your intro professor talks about how evil capitalism is and how America is a colonial project and how Zionism is part of that colonial project, you repeat that stuff because that’s part of getting a good grade,” report author Jay Greene told JNS.
University of Haifa researcher Shlomit Lir told JNS that volunteer editors described harassment, fear of sanctions and emotional exhaustion after contributing to articles about Israel and Jewish topics following Oct. 7.
Rep. Haley Stevens defended her record and support for a two-state solution as Abdul El-Sayed accused AIPAC of influencing U.S. foreign policy.
A state report finding Jews were targets of three-quarters of hate crimes in California in 2025 “should be a gut-check for our entire society,” Nathan Hochman told JNS.
Dean McKay, of Fordham University, told JNS that the initiative aims to “address issues in professional training that may have antisemitic components to it, which is growing increasingly common in the profession.”
“Unless we eliminate the root cause of campus antisemitism, a change in leadership will act as a band-aid,” Brandy Shufutinsky, of FDD, told JNS.
Students who attended “had multiple personal anecdotes of why antisemitism is real, why they’re looking for this kind of training to help them on campus,” Richard Priem, the nonprofit’s CEO, told JNS.
“These cannot become just another set of statistics,” Rick Chavez Zbur, a member of the state Assembly, told JNS. “They must serve as a call to action.”
“The Democrats’ priorities are not the American Jewish community’s priorities,” Sam Markstein of the Republican Jewish Coalition told JNS.
Gerard Filitti, of the Lawfare Project, told JNS that “lax immigration policy” has always been the main driver of importing “terrorist ideology” into the United States.