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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.”
“Our focus is on protecting the safety of our community and ensuring that the university is able to proceed normally with all academic activities,” the university stated.
“This was an antisemitic, Hamas-supporting rally,” said Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, a community leader in the Crown Heights neighborhood.
“YIVO was conceived as a kind of Smithsonian Institution-Library of Congress of Eastern European Jews,” Eddy Portnoy, director of exhibitions at the nonprofit, told JNS.
“The presence of ambassadors from around the world today is a powerful reminder that the victims’ memories live on,” stated Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.
“If more religious Jews stick to their values, it’ll make a big impact,” Yishai Levy, co-captain of the Trigon team, told JNS.
Nessa Hoffman, 11, told JNS that she is grateful to the Orthodox Union and the Christian Legal Society for convincing Florida Gymnastics to let her participate without compromising her faith.
“I am a mom who dresses my kids, and I’m also screaming into my megaphone about antisemitism,” the social-media influencer and clothing line designer told JNS.
Rasheedul Mowla, who faces up to 20 years in prison, “was ready to kill and die for” ISIS, according to the NYPD commissioner.