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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.

The co-author of the K-12 law told JNS that “this attempt to undermine crucial safety protections for Jewish children at a time when antisemitic hate and violence is rampant and rising is breathtaking.”
“Silence” from the Ivy League school and the authorities “only amplifies these fears,” Nathan Miller, who runs a PR firm, told JNS.
“They had everything they needed to make an operational bomb,” the U.S. Justice Department said. “We disrupted this terror plot before buildings were demolished or innocent people were killed.”
Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of homeland security for public affairs, told JNS that visas are a “privilege, not a right, no matter what this or any other activist judicial ruling says.”
“The real story here should be that kidnapped Israelis were being held hostage and were successfully rescued,” Daniel S. Mariaschin, of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS.
The university “agreed to everything we were demanding,” Paul Eckles, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS.
Beth Silbergeld, principal of Branham High School, told JNS that the students are “committed to taking accountability for the harm that was done.”
Oran Almog told JNS that he supported the hostage deal even though it released the mastermind of the terror attack that killed his family members.
The report found a decrease in anti-Jewish hate from 2023 to 2024, but the number of crimes targeting Israelis rose, and 80% of all religious-based hate crimes in the country targeted Jews in 2024.