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Jessica Russak-Hoffman

Jessica Russak-Hoffman

Jessica Russak-Hoffman is a writer in Seattle, Wash.

“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.”
Rabbi Shlomo Litvin said Chabad of Bluegrass has already reached out to coroners statewide and urged Jewish leaders in every state to do the same.