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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.

Wendy Raymond said she will step down in 2027. The college faces a federal probe over its handling of Jew-hatred.
“There should be no safe zones for terror, whether in the Middle East or right here in the Western Hemisphere,” Daniel Mariaschin, of B’nai B’rith, told JNS.
Sen. Ted Budd, legislation sponsor, stated that such action is “a grave threat that could seriously damage America’s relationship with our closest allies.”
“By adopting the IHRA definition, the university administration has absolutely done the right thing by the campus Jewish community,” Miriam Elman, of the Academic Engagement Network, told JNS.
Shalom Lamm, of Operation Benjamin, told JNS that “those who sacrificed all ought to be remembered for eternity for who they truly were in life.”
There have been “disturbing reports of Jewish students being harassed and subjected to open antisemitism in their classrooms and hallways” in the districts, the committee said.
The former U.S. special envoy on monitoring Jew-hatred told JNS that a Wikipedia page listing “genocide” in Gaza but not on Oct. 7 and not against Christians in Nigeria is part of why the site is an “untrustworthy source.”
The Rt. Rev. Alexei Smith, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, told JNS that “people can overcome animosities and hatreds and disrespect.”