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Rebecca Szlechter

Rebecca Szlechter

Rebecca Szlechter is a reporter at JNS based in New York City.

Despite ongoing security concerns, families across the United States chose to send their children on the four-week educational trip to strengthen their connection to Israel.
“The public knows all too well about the challenges we face,” Chabad spokesman Motti Seligson told JNS. “No one needs another billboard telling them how scared they should be.”
A federal jury convicted Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi for illegally exporting sensitive U.S. information to the Islamic Republic.
“The Jedwabne Pogrom is a warning of what can happen when we allow antisemitism and hate to go unchallenged,” Agnieszka Markiewicz of the American Jewish Committee said.
“We are proud of who we are,” Mark Levine, city comptroller, told JNS. “We’re going to support each other. We’re going to support this city, and most importantly, we’re not going anywhere.”
“They just couldn’t figure out how to represent 11% of the city,” stated the writer Avital Chizik-Goldschmidt.
The Minority Impact Coalition made the request to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion after hundreds of Australian Jews were harassed, threatened and doxxed in 2024.
“The Iranian regime is only as strong a negotiator as we allow them to be,” Jason Brodsky, of United Against Nuclear Iran, told JNS.
“In the old days, before you had social media and the internet, antisemites had to work to get their message out,” Alyza Lewin, of Combat Antisemitism Movement, told JNS.
Hundreds of mahjong players gathered at the Museum of Jewish Heritage this weekend to celebrate a game that has connected generations of American Jews for nearly a century.
“I have to get even more involved because, apparently, the progressive movement is taking such a deep root in New York City, we have no choice,” Sid Winston, of Brooklyn, told JNS.
They went through the worst of humanity, the most evil power that can exist,” the New York City Council speaker told JNS, of survivors. “We need to retell those stories because we can honestly never forget.”