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Debra Nussbaum Cohen

Debra Nussbaum Cohen

Debra Nussbaum Cohen is the New York correspondent for JNS.org. She is an award-winning journalist, who has written about Jewish issues for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and New York magazine, as well as many Jewish publications. She is also author of Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter: Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls into the Covenant.

“This funding directly connects Cornell Tech’s technical capabilities with New York City’s recent policy goal of reaching 30% tree canopy coverage to combat extreme heat and climate change,” Michael Samuelian of Cornell Tech told JNS.
“It isn’t assisted suicide,” bioethicist Arthur Caplan told JNS. “It is managing dying in a more humane way.”
Miriam Elman of the Academic Engagement Network told JNS that “just because you sign a statement or position, it doesn’t mean you are teaching in a prejudicial way.”
“Deliberately choosing a synagogue and driving a car into it while 2,000 people were inside is inherently an act of hate,” Yaacov Behrman, a liaison for Chabad headquarters, told JNS.
“I’m running as a pro-Denver candidate on what I can do to make life better for people in Denver on a day-to-day basis,” Dr. Shimon Blau told JNS.
“If you were to pull 18 at random, you would expect there to be several Jewish members,” Mark Goldfeder told JNS. “When they call it ‘truly representative,’ that’s ridiculous.”
“You were elected to serve New Yorkers not Hamas’s propaganda,” Danny Danon stated.
“He was smiling. He has a winning demeanor, but I don’t expect to see any changes,” Rabbi Gerald Sussman, of Temple Emanu-El of Staten Island, told JNS.
The CEO of the broker-dealer told JNS that he wants to see people “double down on our investment in Israel” and “show them that the Jewish community here in New York City increases their support for Israel in light of the anti-Zionist, anti-Israel positions.”
Rabbi Aaron Starr, rabbi of Shaarey Zedek and president of the Michigan Board of Rabbis, declined to comment directly on Dr. Abdul El-Sayed but told JNS, “look at what he says about ‘genocide’ and who his funders are.”
The new program will “definitely” help the many families struggling to pay rent, Eli Cohen, of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, told JNS.
“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights,” he told the crowd at his victory party in Brooklyn, N.Y.