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Jessica Russak-Hoffman

Jessica Russak-Hoffman is a writer in Seattle.

The city council has a “clear moral compass when it comes to addressing antisemitism in our community,” Sara Brown, of AJC San Diego, told JNS.
“You’ve worn it close to your heart. Now, let it tell the story,” it stated.
“We’re in a moment in time where the Jewish community is afraid,” Solly Kane, of the Seattle Federation, told JNS.
The National Education Association “used a webinar meant to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day to instead make links to events in Minnesota and call for activism,” the North American Values Institute said.
“I hope the impact for Jewish students will be the same as all students—that students feel safe and welcome to be on campus,” the bill’s sponsor, told JNS.
“This policy eases financial pressure on families, strengthens communities and expands educational opportunity at no cost to the state—priorities that resonate across party lines,” Sydney Altfield, of Teach Coalition, told JNS.
Video footage appeared to show the driver repeatedly ramming the doors to the main synagogue before police arrested him.
“There was nothing that explicitly connects antisemitism studies, which is a subdiscipline more popular in Europe, with the discipline of Holocaust studies,” Professor Adam Rovner told JNS.
“We cannot become numb to this,” said Mark Treyger, of the JCRC-NY.
Vijay Iyer’s appointment “suggests that those who write fairly about Israel will be marginalized,” Daniel Mariaschin, of B’nai B’rith, told JNS.
“I’m not in the policy business, but I am in the truth business,” playwright Phelim McAleer told JNS.
Liza Wiemer, author of “The Assignment,” says she believes that it was included because “it gives students multiple ways to use their voices.”