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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.

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.
“It is not controversial to say the state has a right to give direction to teachers as far as what it is they should be instructing their classrooms,” Seth Brysk, of the American Jewish Committee, told JNS.
Rabbi Joel Nickerson, of Wilshire Boulevard Temple, told JNS that it was a “disturbing outbreak of hate.”
The sentence “signals that violence against Jews does not carry serious consequences in this city,” Daniel Schwartz, of the Chicago Jewish Alliance, told JNS.
According to the plaintiff’s filing in U.S. district court, the Ivy League school kept lists of Jewish students who were “peaceful” and “protesters” and barred the latter from the November 2023 event.
The California Democrat told JNS that it’s harder to do in-person town halls than it used to be due to anti-Israel protesters.
A university spokesman told JNS that the resolution from the union, which is a separate entity, doesn’t reflect Cornell’s views.