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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.”
“It’s hard for me to believe that someone would spend $70,000 to $80,000 to go to a school where people hate you because of your beliefs,” David Rancourt, vice provost of New College, told JNS. “I assure you that does not happen here.”
“Leaders in Tehran openly state their ambitions to spill American blood, evict the United States from the Middle East, eliminate Israel and dominate a region that remains vital to global stability,” per the Jewish Institute for National Security of America letter.
“The Iranians are going to strike us where we are least defended,” Michael Rubin, of the American Enterprise Institute, told JNS.
“This is a moment that every Iranian around the world has hoped and prayed for,” Sam Yebri told JNS.
“It was a very great honor to be here to make that argument to this particular community that I feel so strongly connected to,” Steve Hilton told JNS.
Most signatories are in the science, technology, engineering, medicine and math fields, according to Ilan Benjamin, a professor emeritus at UC Santa Cruz.
Jeffrey Lang, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS that “we felt compelled to sue the state for systemic, effective change.”
“Although the school didn’t terminate her, it was essentially constructive termination, because the environment had become so hostile that she was unable to work there,” Lauren Israelovitch, of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS.