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Rebecca Szlechter

Rebecca Szlechter

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

New York state Assembly member says he has introduced nine bills addressing Jew-hatred while emphasizing his unconventional path to Orthodox Judaism and decades of local service.
Jesse Myerson has denied Israel’s right to exist as a nation-state, defended the slogan ‘globalize the intifada,’ and criticized Jewish religious traditions.
“It’s overwhelming to be here to really see what happened to humanity,” Montalvo Sosa, Ecuadorian ambassador to the United Nations, said of visiting the concentration camp for the first time.
“The Constitution is clear that the states do not have to subsidize antisemitic speech on their college campuses,” the Kentucky attorney general said.
“The international community must see firsthand where the world’s silence in the face of incitement against the Jewish people can lead,” the Israeli envoy said.
Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, told JNS at the event that only leaders who have put forward plans to fight modern Jew-hatred should say “never again,” or else it’s a “shallow cliché.”
“When we are strengthening and reinforcing each other, there’s nothing we can’t accomplish and overcome,” Rabbi Mendy Dubrowski, an emissary in Tampa, Fla., told JNS.
“No elected Republican with half of a brain ever believed you had a shot of winning governor and beating Hochul,” Inna Vernikov told the Nassau County executive.
“At a time when some are trying to silence our community, we have a voice at the table,” New York state Assembly member Sam Berger told JNS. “Make no mistake. We intend to use it.”
The governor’s “understanding of the Jewish community is deeper than we’ve seen in many administrations,” Manhattan Borough president Brad Hoylman-Sigal told JNS.
“When I go out and do things, it’s never, ‘Oh, look at what Sam did.’ It’s always like, ‘What Sam-the-Jew did,’” Sam Berger told JNS.
Ahmad Umar Agha targeted 47 media outlets, businesses, NGOs and government entities on behalf of Bashar Assad’s regime, including in a hack that briefly wiped $136 billion from the Dow Jones Industrial Average.