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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.

“Jews everywhere have been exposed to more antisemitism and anti-Zionism since Oct. 7, and San Diego is no exception,” a regional American Jewish Committee director told JNS.
“Every one of these bills solves a problem our community asked Sacramento to fix,” stated David Bocarsly of Jewish California.
U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns wrote that, “without diminishing any concern arising from these occurrences,” the incidents cited in the complaint were “too isolated and episodic” to support a finding that institutionalized noncompliance persists at Harvard.
“It’s like a Yom Kippur question,” David Bocarsly of Jewish California told JNS. “In one hearing, we’re going to figure out ‘who shall live and who shall die.’”
“Jews make up a small fraction of San Francisco’s population, yet anti-Jewish bias accounted for nearly half of all hate crimes reported so far this year,” Marc Levine, of the ADL, told JNS.
“This is all just an antisemitic op,” Max Abrahms, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told JNS about a July 30 report.
“There is a growing perception in our community of a two-tiered standard,” Daniel Schwartz of the Chicago Jewish Alliance told JNS.
The materials distort “Jewish identity and experiences,” Oleg Ivanov of StandWithUs told JNS.
The student plaintiffs are “very, very happy” with the settlement, and the college’s statement is an “amazing change,” Lori Lowenthal Marcus of the Deborah Project told JNS.
“It is critical law enforcement understands the breakdown of religious minority groups impacted by hate crimes,” Evan Bernstein, incoming CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS.
“We will investigate these allegations, ensure the safety of Jewish students and protect the right of every student in America to an education free from discrimination,” the U.S. assistant secretary of education for civil rights stated.
The Berkeley project “has a record of promoting anti-Israel and antisemitic agendas,” Oleg Ivanov, of StandWithUs, told JNS. “We are deeply concerned that the same thing will happen in this training.”