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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.

“This is my face being plastered in places and falsely accusing me of things I don’t actually support,” Lenny Steinberg told JNS.
“It’s pretty normal in all communities, including Jews, to use visual arts as a way of processing current events, especially in times of trauma,” the scholar Steven Fine told JNS.
“It was the first time where I felt part of something much greater than myself, part of a history,” the Plano, Texas, native told JNS of his first visit to Israel. “I felt grounded.”
“These edits aren’t so much about Kraft or CAMERA,” board chair Carol Greenwald told JNS. “They are about how Wikipedia has been hijacked by anti-Israel activists to promote the ‘genocide’ libel.”
“It’s yet another example of the Wikipedia editors’ anti-Israel bias,” Alyza Lewin of the Combat Antisemitism Movement told JNS.
“The feeling that our new home could be desecrated so quickly—really unsettling and really sad,” Lenny Steinberg, of the Hillel, told JNS.
Nithya Raman “just did the math,” professor Dan Schnur told JNS. “There are a lot more progressives in Los Angeles than there are Jews, and not every Jew is necessarily a strong supporter of Israel.”
“All I want to do is to take pictures, to go the street and do my job,” Sharon Gabay told JNS. “I don’t like to mess with all of this.”
David Bocarsly, CEO of Jewish California, told JNS that “time, place and manner restrictions have made universities safer for all students, including Jewish students.”
Tina Lerno told JNS that she had a “panic attack” and “sat down at my desk and started crying.”
Mika Hackner of NAVI told JNS that “it is not the role of a teacher to bring their own personal political views into the classroom.”
“At a time when some would isolate Israeli academia, UCLA has chosen collaboration,” Eveline Shekhman of the American Jewish Medical Association told JNS.