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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.

Moshe Davis told JNS that if his successor “wants to be successful in this office, she’s going to have to understand that anti-Israel activism leads to attacks on Jewish people.”
“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.”
The unnamed girl, a student at Yeshivat Noam, is reportedly undergoing surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center.
The Jewish New York congressman faces stiff competition from the former city comptroller, who has accused Israel of “genocide.”
“Wherever anti-Zionism has been normalized, it has led to an increase of hostilities toward Israel and the Jewish people,” Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch told JNS. “I would welcome the mayor waking up one day and understanding that.”