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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.

A small business owner in the Big Apple told JNS that she is being hurt by tariffs more than by the credit rating.
The pro-Israel group “has become increasingly problematic for many American Jews and for many candidates running for office,” Lauren Strauss, of American University, told JNS.
“Leaders who claim to stand for human rights should not use rhetoric that puts Jewish communities at risk,” the AJC said.
“I want to make no apology about insisting on a proportionate response to disproportionate discrimination,” Julie Menin said.
The added cost “puts an enormous strain on school budgets,” Prizmah CEO Paul Bernstein told JNS.
Despite the new approach, 55% of the confirmed hate crimes in New York City in February targeted Jews.
“Despite the geopolitical pressures of the Gaza war and last year’s credit rating actions, Israel Bonds recorded three consecutive years of more than $2 billion in global sales and has raised over $5.7 billion since Oct. 7, 2023,” according to Israel Bonds.
“No Jew, no Muslim, no Christian, no Catholic should ever have to calculate risk before entering their house of worship,” said Mark Treyger, CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.
“It’s turned into a full-on retreat experience,” Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky told JNS of the CTeen Shabbaton, which was supposed to run for just a weekend.
Gaza “reconstruction cannot and will not take place in areas where Hamas has not demilitarized,” U.S. envoy Mike Waltz said.
“The fact that he did it as his first act as mayor was a slap in the face to the entire Jewish community,” the attorney bringing the suit told JNS.
The state funding that covers certain teacher salaries “allows us to keep quality up and keep tuition increases reasonable, all thanks to the state,” Rabbi Bini Krauss, principal of SAR Academy, told JNS.