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Rikki Zagelbaum

Rikki Zagelbaum

Rikki Zagelbaum is a writer in New York and managing editor at The Commentator, a Yeshiva University student paper.

“It represents the fact that we’re not all rowing in the same direction when it comes to our responsibilities” to the Jewish community, Rabbi Kenneth Brander told JNS. “It’s very painful to see that.”
Kayla Mamelak Altus told JNS that Eric Adams comforted her after Oct. 7 and empathized with her as a Jew as few others could.
The senator told JNS that the rabbi was “very substantive, but the depth of his personal friendship and his commitment to people was remarkable.”
“It could have happened to anyone,” Jonathan Harounoff, whose book is slated to publish this week, told JNS of the killing of Mahsa Amini, which sparked the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.
“To be recognized for something that I’m just doing naturally feels wonderful,” McCain told JNS. “But it also feels confusing, because I just feel like it’s something everyone should be doing.”
The Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation’s annual gala focused on how “there are good people who care and want to create harmony.”
The 86-year-old sat down with JNS for an extended conversation on the day before he and his wife made aliyah.
“Wherever in the world, if you’re an American citizen, the protection of the United States follows you around,” the lawyer Kent Yalowitz told JNS.