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Carin M. Smilk

Carin M. Smilk

Carin M. Smilk is managing editor of the U.S. bureau at JNS, with extensive experience in writing, content editing, copy editing and newsroom management. She has worked in newspaper and communications offices in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore; freelanced for more than 25 years; and contributed to magazines and books. She has won more than three dozen individual and team journalism awards on the U.S. state and national levels.

“Our role is not only in higher education and groundbreaking research,” said Daniel Chamovitz, professor and president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. It’s also about “building a cosmopolitan, attractive society the youth of Israel want to be a part of.”
The website describes the living facility as “a holistic experience while embracing the richness of Islamic culture and values.”
Rabbi Levi Slonim of the Rohr Chabad Center for Jewish Life at Binghamton University spoke one day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, aiming to show “the importance of unity.”
“We are trying to raise awareness and bring attention to who’s behind the chaos—the anti-Democratic and hate-filled chaos,” said Charles Asher Small, executive director of ISGAP.
“I arrived with my hurricane namesake. It’s been quite an experience,” says Beryl Chernov, executive director at Congregation Emanu El in Houston.
“It’s become OK to be antisemitic in America,” says Rabbi Dovid Labkowski of the Chabad Jewish Center of Oakland, Calif.
“In Judaism, maybe ‘shmita’ has been an ideal, but it’s aspirational, too,” says religious-studies professor Adrienne Krone.
“This is a vile act, and I condemn antisemitism in our city,” said Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow.