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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.

“Our hope is that they will continue investing in all children’s education, whether they attend public, charter, Jewish, faith-based or otherwise,” Sydney Altfield, of the Orthodox Union Teach Coalition, told JNS.
“Why would BU, which has an honorable reputation otherwise, allow someone who publishes violent social media posts about Jews to be held out as an anti-bigotry fellow,” Douglas Hauer-Gilad told JNS.
The six candidates for California governor, out of nine, who responded to questions from JNS said they agree with the bill.
“We dodged protests erupting on campus, urging students to vote a certain way,” Joel Harris, a UConn student senator, told JNS.
“For many, being present in synagogue has become their way of pushing back against antisemitism,” said Rabbi Brian Strauss, who leads a Conservative synagogue in Houston.
“All the help the police can get is welcome,” David Julian, the rabbi and cantor of a Conservative synagogue in Memphis, told JNS.
“A lot of faculty are scared,” Jeffrey Blutinger, Jewish studies chair at California State University, Long Beach, told JNS.
“At a time of rising levels of antisemitism and hate across America, public safety must be paramount,” Richard Hirschhaut, of the American Jewish Committee, told JNS.