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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 wanted people as soon as they walk into the space to see themselves as their future self and imagine that their vulnerability is in the past,” Alex Roth-Kahn, of the UJA, told JNS.
Elizabeth Berney of ZOA told JNS the nonprofit hopes that Christopher Brown’s “10-year sentence will be long enough for him to eradicate his hateful, violent neo-Nazi ideology from his being.”
“We’re a small community, and when we come to events like this it shows that we are united,” a Texas State University student told JNS.
“This is the most extraordinarily pro-Israel group of nominees that I’ve ever seen in an American government,” Morton Klein, the president of Zionist Organization of America, told JNS.
N.Y. Sephardim “are seriously Jewish, worldly, cosmopolitan, entrepreneurial,” Jason Guberman, who leads the American Sephardi Federation, told JNS.
“It is a sign that Berlin is always going to be on the side of Jews in Germany and on the side of Israel all the time without doubt,” Cornelia Seibeld, president of the Berlin state parliament, told JNS.
“They face challenges from multiple constituencies and don’t know how to respond,” Stephen Joel Trachtenberg told JNS. “This is a novel experience for them.”
A Columbia student told JNS that Jews currently feel safe on campus, but “to be lulled into a false sense of security is very dangerous.”