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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.

“How am I supposed to meet with someone who does not recognize me,” Ofir Akunis told JNS.
Scott Richman, director of the Anti-Defamation League’s New York region, told JNS that the one-year jump is “staggering.”
“The response to a skyrocketing increase in antisemitism should not solely be words of condemnation,” Eric Dinowitz, chair of the council’s Jewish Caucus, told JNS.
“I don’t put much stock in the rumors,” a Chabad spokesman told JNS. “They simply don’t make political sense.”
Brian Cohen, executive director at the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life, told JNS that he hopes Jennifer Mnookin “will bring the reputation, experience and understanding that we need.”
“Policy evolution is legitimate. Policy exceptionalism aimed solely at the Jewish state is not,” Jonathan Greenblatt told JNS.
“We Jews are all navigating these new conditions we’re facing,” a member of one of the groups that signed the letter told JNS.
A recent, pro-Hamas demonstration outside a Queens synagogue was “not free expression,” she said. “That’s harassment, and targeting a Jewish community in this way is antisemitism.”