“There is no doubt in my mind that Israeli forces prosecuting the war in Gaza violated the law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law,” the Jewish Georgia Democrat said.
“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.
“We expect the University of Oregon to hold students, faculty and staff responsible for intimidation and hate speech,” said Lenny Steinberg, executive director of the Oregon Hillel Foundation.
“The ICC is not a court,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated. “It is a political body that poses a mortal threat to law-abiding democracies worldwide and to the very idea of national sovereignty.”
“The charging by the FBI of Haverford College associate professor Guangtian Ha for harassment and intimidation of a Jewish Israeli professor closes the dotted line between verbal acts of harassment and actionable violence which, when Jews are the recipients, is far too often ignored,” Lori Lowenthal Marcus of the Deborah Project told JNS.
“Mamdani could not even give us one day to mourn without defaming the Jewish people and giving cover to our enemies,” Inna Vernikov, a Jewish member of the New York City Council, told JNS. “We will not let Mamdani and his radical pals rewrite Oct. 7.”
The manufacturer told JNS that its role in the Saudi probe limits its ability to issue public comment on the aircraft’s survival of a reported 14,000-foot nosedive.
A Western observer tells JNS that Morocco’s growing purchases of Israeli defense technology reflect a wider regional shift as Israeli firms prepare for next week’s Marrakech Airshow.
A plan to establish Israeli defense production at a former Volkswagen plant marks a milestone for defense exports, former intelligence officer tells JNS.
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The manufacturer told JNS that its role in the Saudi probe limits its ability to issue public comment on the aircraft’s survival of a reported 14,000-foot nosedive.
“The charging by the FBI of Haverford College associate professor Guangtian Ha for harassment and intimidation of a Jewish Israeli professor closes the dotted line between verbal acts of harassment and actionable violence which, when Jews are the recipients, is far too often ignored,” Lori Lowenthal Marcus of the Deborah Project told JNS.
“Mamdani could not even give us one day to mourn without defaming the Jewish people and giving cover to our enemies,” Inna Vernikov, a Jewish member of the New York City Council, told JNS. “We will not let Mamdani and his radical pals rewrite Oct. 7.”
The manufacturer told JNS that its role in the Saudi probe limits its ability to issue public comment on the aircraft’s survival of a reported 14,000-foot nosedive.
Heretic Coffee in Oregon canceled its involvement in building a free coffee shop in the Strip after social media comments criticized the shop for not centering Palestinians on the ground.
“I’m very excited to be able to participate in a stamp dedication that is something that is representative of a joyous, celebratory Jewish tradition,” Carrie Rieger Brownlie told JNS.
“There is no doubt in my mind that Israeli forces prosecuting the war in Gaza violated the law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law,” the Jewish Georgia Democrat said.
“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.
“We expect the University of Oregon to hold students, faculty and staff responsible for intimidation and hate speech,” said Lenny Steinberg, executive director of the Oregon Hillel Foundation.
“The ICC is not a court,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated. “It is a political body that poses a mortal threat to law-abiding democracies worldwide and to the very idea of national sovereignty.”
“The charging by the FBI of Haverford College associate professor Guangtian Ha for harassment and intimidation of a Jewish Israeli professor closes the dotted line between verbal acts of harassment and actionable violence which, when Jews are the recipients, is far too often ignored,” Lori Lowenthal Marcus of the Deborah Project told JNS.
“Mamdani could not even give us one day to mourn without defaming the Jewish people and giving cover to our enemies,” Inna Vernikov, a Jewish member of the New York City Council, told JNS. “We will not let Mamdani and his radical pals rewrite Oct. 7.”
The manufacturer told JNS that its role in the Saudi probe limits its ability to issue public comment on the aircraft’s survival of a reported 14,000-foot nosedive.
A Western observer tells JNS that Morocco’s growing purchases of Israeli defense technology reflect a wider regional shift as Israeli firms prepare for next week’s Marrakech Airshow.
A plan to establish Israeli defense production at a former Volkswagen plant marks a milestone for defense exports, former intelligence officer tells JNS.
Riots in France and Britain’s lurch left illustrate what follows when liberals appease and then surrender to the red-green alliance of Marxists and Islamists. Can it happen in America?
After three years of rejection and antisemitism, Jews must cease asking for pity and second-guessing failed efforts at explaining themselves, and instead project strength.
The manufacturer told JNS that its role in the Saudi probe limits its ability to issue public comment on the aircraft’s survival of a reported 14,000-foot nosedive.
“The charging by the FBI of Haverford College associate professor Guangtian Ha for harassment and intimidation of a Jewish Israeli professor closes the dotted line between verbal acts of harassment and actionable violence which, when Jews are the recipients, is far too often ignored,” Lori Lowenthal Marcus of the Deborah Project told JNS.
“Mamdani could not even give us one day to mourn without defaming the Jewish people and giving cover to our enemies,” Inna Vernikov, a Jewish member of the New York City Council, told JNS. “We will not let Mamdani and his radical pals rewrite Oct. 7.”
The manufacturer told JNS that its role in the Saudi probe limits its ability to issue public comment on the aircraft’s survival of a reported 14,000-foot nosedive.
Heretic Coffee in Oregon canceled its involvement in building a free coffee shop in the Strip after social media comments criticized the shop for not centering Palestinians on the ground.
“I’m very excited to be able to participate in a stamp dedication that is something that is representative of a joyous, celebratory Jewish tradition,” Carrie Rieger Brownlie told JNS.
Menin presents $1.16 million check to Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn group UJO
“This large check is emblematic of the respect that we have for UJO for the incredible work that you are doing for the community,” the New York City Council’s first Jewish speaker said.
New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
(Oct. 9, 2026 / JNS)
Julie Menin, speaker of the New York City Council, and fellow council member Jennifer Gutiérrez presented a $1.16 million check to the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn, an Orthodox group founded in 1966 by Holocaust survivors that represents 70,000 people and more than 200 nonprofits.
“This large check is emblematic of the respect that we have for UJO for the incredible work that you are doing for the community,” she told attendees, gesturing toward a large depiction of the check on an easel. “We really are presenting this check to say, ‘thank you.’”
“We are so excited about this expansion that you are doing,” she said of the new UJO headquarters, which is under construction. “I can’t think of a more fitting place than to do this announcement in this facility, which we can’t wait to see the incredible work that I know that you’re going to continue to do.”
Menin said that she takes very seriously that she is the first Jewish speaker of the council.
Rabbi David Niederman, executive director of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn, at a meeting with New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin (not pictured), Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
“When I was coming over here, I was thinking about the fact that my mother and grandmother were Holocaust survivors in Hungary,” she said. “Then I was thinking about the work that UJO did in starting in 1966 and really making sure that those who survived the Holocaust and who were new to New York City were able to get the services that they needed.”
Her grandfather was murdered in the Holocaust “just because he happened to be Jewish,” Menin said.
“When my mother and grandmother settled into the east side of Manhattan, and they moved into a rent-controlled apartment in what was then known as ‘Little Hungary,’ which was the Hungarian Jewish community, that Hungarian Jewish community opened their hearts to my mother and grandmother and really welcomed them with open arms,” the speaker said.
“Now I have the tremendous honor of representing that same community by representing the east side of Manhattan, encompassing Little Hungary, in the City Council,” she said. “It’s all really come full circle.”
Menin said that she was proud of her efforts at the council to protect Jewish New Yorkers, including her five-point plan to fight Jew-hatred.
“Antisemitism is right now the worst that we have seen it since the Holocaust,” she said. “That is what is happening, and it’s unfortunately taken root in our great city. It’s unacceptable, and it’s unconscionable, and we all need to be calling it out with a loud and clear voice.”
New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
Rabbi David Niederman, executive director of the UJO, thanked Menin for the funding and for passing laws that help protect Jews. “Your coming to Williamsburg shows that Williamsburg has a special place in your heart,” he told her.
“Antisemitism is an issue. I know you all know. Williamsburg, unfortunately, one looks at numbers, is the epicenter of antisemitic attacks,” he told attendees.
According to the City Council, Menin and Gutiérrez, along with fellow council members Chi Ossé and Lincoln Restler, helped secure the funding in the 2027 fiscal year budget.
“I want to say to you, Rabbi Niederman, you and I have worked together for almost a decade. I started as commissioner of consumer affairs when I started in public service, and we were working on trying to reduce fines on businesses,” Menin told the rabbi.
“I know that there were a number of businesses in the community that were receiving unfair fines, and back then, and that was in 2014, really working with UJO, making sure that we were listening to that and lowering those fines on small businesses,” she said.
New York City Council members meet with UJO
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin (not pictured) meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin (not pictured) meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin (right) and council member Jennifer Gutiérrez meet with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin (not pictured) meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin (not pictured) meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin (not pictured) meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council member Jennifer Gutiérrez meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin (not pictured) meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council member Jennifer Gutiérrez meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin meets with Brooklyn Jewish leaders, Oct. 9, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/New York City Council.
When she was city commissioner of media and entertainment, Menin also worked with the rabbi, who called to ask her to ensure that streets weren’t shut down for filming on Jewish holidays,” she said. “We worked together on that.”
She added that she was “honored” to partner with UJO on the census to “make sure that we would get the proper resources for our schools, for our infrastructure, for over 300 programs that New York City relies on.”
“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.
The manufacturer told JNS that its role in the Saudi probe limits its ability to issue public comment on the aircraft’s survival of a reported 14,000-foot nosedive.
