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Jessica Russak-Hoffman

Jessica Russak-Hoffman is a reporter for JNS in Seattle.

Shear Nobles was charged with disrupting services at a Sephardic synagogue and shouting at worshippers while they were praying.
Guangtian Ha is in federal custody pending trial after prosecutors said that he admitted to sending threatening messages and told his wife that they should leave the country.
“Britain must not grow accustomed to such scenes,” Steve Winston, of the National Jewish Assembly, told JNS.
Jim Walsh, a Washington state rep and chair of the state’s Republican Party, told JNS that the state’s education superintendent is a “gullible political ally” to the governor, whom he called a “coward.”
Dylan Daniell is also accused of calling a Jewish Lakewood, N.J., charity and saying that he “would like to kill Benjamin Netanyahu and all the Jews.”
“There is no cause in the world that’s served by scaring children,” stated Rep. Jared Moskowitz. “If your grievance leads you to a K-12 school, you’re the problem.”
“People need to be aware, and institutions need to repair,” Miri Bar-Halpern told JNS. “Clinicians are engaging in activism. It’s not about therapy anymore.”
“The Jews have moved their entire lives, and they finally have a homeland,” Pastor Aaron Taylor told JNS. “Let them be. There’s one Jewish country.”
“Pokémon has a code of conduct that forbids discrimination by race, religion and national origin,” Mark Goldfeder of NJAC told JNS. “The court has now reminded it that Congress wrote one first.”
A spokesman for Seattle Central College told JNS that the public school “did not organize, sponsor or otherwise participate in the event.”
The Metropolitan Police also reported arresting people for assault and damaging a memorial.
The U.S. Army veteran’s amended complaint alleges that campus police allowed anti-Israel encampment materials to remain untouched.