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Jessica Russak-Hoffman

Jessica Russak-Hoffman is a writer in Seattle.

Nefesh B’Nefesh told JNS it is working with law enforcement to protect participants.
“The close relationship between the NYPD and the mayor’s office has been key to averting disasters for the Jewish community,” Mark Goldfeder and colleagues wrote to the New York City mayor.
He told JNS that the imagery accusing him of profiteering from Palestinian deaths is “meant to incite political violence.”
“Israel has both the right and the obligation to defend its people, and that reality should not be erased or rewritten in the classroom,” Rep. Tom Kean stated.
Activists also shouted the claim outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City on Christmas Day.
JNS sought comment from the conservative student organization, cofounded by the late Charlie Kirk, about how the Jew-hatred was allowed a platform to begin with.
Avital Levene told JNS that she began sharing photos of her challah creations online “as a way to connect Jews around the world.”
King County prosecutors say Joshua Cole Scott left antisemitic voicemails targeting the Reform Temple De Hirsch Sinai.
“Even the smallest, or what might seem to be the smallest, detail could be what helps us solve this crime,” a spokesperson for the police department in Clayton, Mo., told JNS.
Ben Shuldiner, the outgoing superintendent of the Lansing School District in Michigan, told JNS that deep-blue Seattle is a better political fit for him than somewhere like Kentucky.
The only reference to the student, whom JNS is not naming, that still appeared to be live was in a PDF file of an annual report.
“My heart dropped when this happened,” the customer said. “Totally twisted a nice night of celebrating.”