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Rikki Zagelbaum

Rikki Zagelbaum

Rikki Zagelbaum is national reporter at JNS based in New York City.

Ron Gabayan told JNS that he is “excited” to join the Israel’s mission to the global body at a time when the Jewish state “faces significant challenges on the international stage.”
“I don’t think it’s new,” Ari Berman told JNS. “This is an effort that was there beforehand—there were some wins and some losses, and it’s important to be mindful.”
“The Democratic Party as a whole, the party that we’ve known, that we’ve grown up with, is not an anti-Jewish party,” Pesach Osina told JNS. “It’s a party that reflects our values.”
It’s “absurd and tragic that there are U.N. experts who are supposed to care about the rights of women, especially to combat sexual violence, and she’s one of the world’s major deniers of sexual violence against Israeli women,” Hillel Neuer told JNS.
“Here is one more institution of government in Canada, one of our six national museums, again failing the Jewish community, leading to a rupture in the Jewish community,” Mark Berlin told JNS.
The report is “an embarrassment to the United Nations and a disservice to genuine human rights accountability,” Dina Rovner, of U.N. Watch, told JNS.
“A museum that purports to tell stories about history does not get to change history,” Mark Berlin stated.
“He was a giant of a man who helped shape the U.S. economy for decades under presidents of both parties but was always honest in acknowledging his mistakes,” his widow Andrea Mitchell told NBC.
A month after his father was killed in a Queens park, Tzvi Yonie Itzkowitz told JNS that his family believes that the still-unsolved killing was motivated by Jew-hatred.
“The challenges facing American Jewry are also very profound,” Rabbi Menachem Genack told JNS. “The risk of rapid assimilation. The level of antisemitism that we’re seeing. The security challenges facing the State of Israel.”
“When you have something saying you can’t go to someone who uses divination, or a witch, or consults spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer, that means this is something people were doing,” Eddy Portnoy, the curator, told JNS.
“Monitoring this agreement cannot be passive,” Daniel S. Mariaschin, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS.