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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.”
“We must not allow the actions of a few interfere with our mission,” said Laura Rosenbury, the college president.
“To the Jewish students listening, do not relent or give in,” the nominee for U.S. envoy to the United Nations told attendees of the group’s summit.
“Disrupting classes and defacing buildings to intimidate and divide our community is not academic exploration,” Laura Rosenbury, the college’s president, wrote in an op-ed.
Putting it on is “like the face of Judaism,” said Sammy Seokar, 16, an 11th-grader from Boynton Beach, Fla.
“It’s a crisis threatening the safety and dignity of Jewish students,” Jacob Baime, CEO of ICC, told JNS.
Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) said these efforts “bring much-needed attention to the plight of Jewish students across our country.”
“There’s nothing that gets a university president’s attention like a call from the Justice Department,” Kenneth L. Marcus, chairman of the Brandeis Center, told JNS.
The NYPD told JNS that it had a report on file of an assault, but that there were no arrests amid an ongoing investigation.