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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.

“It will take at least a decade to rehabilitate,” said Orit Sulitzeanu, CEO of the Israeli Association of Rape Crisis Centers.
“I am the grandson of two presidents,” Jack Kennedy Schlossberg told attendees. “One a U.S. president and the other the president of this synagogue.”
“When we talk about irrigation or plants, we see that this common language can overcome many political difficulties,” Tomer Malchi told JNS.
“We’re not seeing any indication that a large part of the Jewish community supports anti-Zionism,” Jonathan Schulman, of Jewish Majority, which conducted the survey, told JNS.
“If we had produced anything like this, I would have been fired the next day,” Benny Polatseck, who worked in the creative communications department at City Hall under the former mayor, told JNS.
Carl Wilson, who won the election, pledged to vote to overturn the mayor’s veto of a bill calling for a “buffer zone” free of protest obstruction around educational institutions. A spokesman said that Wilson changed his view, and then that he changed back.
“I can’t recall ever hearing something so absurd from someone in the administration,” Simcha Felder told JNS. “That’s unconscionable and unacceptable.”
“We are burning inside with hate, with longing, with infinite sadness,” an Israeli reservist, who was injured in Gaza and saw three of his unit members killed, told attendees.
Nicole Gelinas, of Manhattan Institute, told JNS that the move from Albany and City Hall is a “gimmicky tax-the-rich idea” that’s a “marketing ploy” amid a stalled state budget.
The mayor has shown “a troubling mix of naïveté and negligence toward the very communities he has been entrusted to protect,” Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, of Park Avenue Synagogue, told JNS.
Goldman’s campaign said that it raised nearly $2.3 million from more than 5,200 contributions in the quarter, and that three-quarters of the donations were under $100.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani dodged a question about restoring bike lanes in Williamsburg during a press conference on March 31.