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Vita Fellig

Vita Fellig

Vita Fellig is a writer in New York City.

Mark Treyger, of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, told JNS that the legislative package “will help ensure the safety and security of our community.”
“This administration would not be made silent while our Jewish brothers and sisters are targeted,” Eric Adams told reporters.
“For a Zionist and a Jew, Yom Ha’atzmaut is the most important holiday on the Jewish calendar,” Ofir Akunis, the consul general in New York, told JNS.
Washington continues to support Israel’s two main goals of dismantling the Hamas terror group and bringing the hostages home, Danny Danon, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, told JNS.
A university spokesperson told JNS that the school has suspended 65 students and barred another 33 from campus.
“Columbia unequivocally rejects antisemitism and all other forms of harassment and discrimination,” stated Claire Shipman, acting president of Columbia University.
Rabbi Joshua Stanton of the Jewish Federation told JNS that the new pope’s election fills him with both hope and anxiety.
“We are still fighting to defend the very right of our people to live in safety and security,” said Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations.
“Across the research portfolio, we have had to make difficult choices,” Claire Shipman, president of Columbia University, said in a statement.