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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.”
“They’re not so big and powerful that they can’t ignore what the federal government can and might do to them,” Jay Greene, of Defense of Freedom Institute, told JNS.
Education officials have their “hearts and minds are in the right place,” Tal Fortgang, of the Manhattan Institute, told JNS. “It’s a matter of execution.”
A university spokeswoman told JNS that the private school wouldn’t comment on pending litigation.
Kenneth L. Marcus, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS that the crowd-sourced encyclopedia quotes him out of context.
“We strongly support our students’ rights to freedom of expression,” the private school stated. “However, we understand that lines can be crossed.”
Rabbi Noah Farkas, who leads the city’s Federation, told JNS that there was a “collective sense of relief,” as the symbol was retired after Israel liberated the last hostage from Gaza.
“When parents have access to a range of educational options, students are more likely to thrive in and out of the classroom,” Rep. Tim Walberg stated.
Daniel Kelley, of the ADL, told JNS that when technology companies started investing in the problem of antisemitism on social media, “they were doing it after the horse had left the barn in many respects.”