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“For Jewish families, this means the chance to give their children an education rooted in who they are, without being priced out,” stated Sydney Altfield, of the Orthodox Union.
“If Michigan Hillel wants to remain the center of Jewish life on campus, it cannot retreat from one of the central and challenging parts of being Jewish there,” Seth Mendel, of CAMERA, told JNS.
Conservatives examined Israel’s high birthrates—and debated whether duty or self-fulfillment can revive family life across the West.
“So much of the New York Oct. 7 story is the role that the New York Jewish community played in fighting for the return of the hostages,” Hindy Poupko of the UJA told JNS.
The Lithuanian government told JNS exclusively that it “does not envisage any activities on the site of the former Jewish cemetery in Šnipiškės that would be incompatible with the historical significance of this place and respect for the Jewish community.”
Prominent American and European communal figures described hardened security protocols alongside an extraordinary grassroots surge of bold solidarity.
“For the first time in my life, I’m dividing the restaurant into two sections,” Eyal Shani told JNS. “I have to seduce people to see what’s inside without them feeling that they are going to spend a lot of money or a lot of their time.”
“Now, funds go to Jewish Family Services, the kosher-food pantry, the Jewish day school, youth organizations, synagogue programs and college scholarships,” Dennis Feinberg, president of the Hebrew Orphans Society, tells JNS.
“It was the first time where I felt part of something much greater than myself, part of a history,” the Plano, Texas, native told JNS of his first visit to Israel. “I felt grounded.”
Rabbi Rachel Timoner, of Congregation Beth Elohim, told JNS that there ought to be a conversation “to break down assumptions.”
“The feeling that our new home could be desecrated so quickly—really unsettling and really sad,” Lenny Steinberg, of the Hillel, told JNS.
“Decisions about faith and religion were made by secular careerists in cubicles and lawyers running around with red tape,” the U.S. defense secretary said.
