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The resignation of Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick could clear the path for Elijah Manley, a convert to Judaism running as a Democratic Socialist and frequent Israel critic.
The N.Y. mayoral race frontrunner’s statement on the Oct. 7 attacks draws rebuke from Jerusalem.
The terrorist group’s new demands threaten to derail a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release.
Marking the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre, the secretary said, “We renew our resolve to prevent such evil from ever taking place again.”
“We are turning remembrance into action and grief into light,” said Yael Eckstein, president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
“They are terrorist criminal prisoners, not ‘political’ prisoners,” stated Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America.
“We will never forgive nor forget the atrocities committed by the new Nazis called Hamas,” stated Ofir Akunis, the Israeli consul general in New York.
“As the home of the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, we mourn this tragedy and continue to pray for the safe return of the remaining hostages, an end to the war and a lasting peace,” the governor stated.
“This FBI won’t partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs,” stated Kash Patel, the bureau director.
“Let’s be clear: Calls to ‘globalize the intifada’ are not abstract slogans—they are calls for violence against Jews,” said the former New York governor and current mayoral candidate.
The show has a “deep sense of certain kinds of Jewish language and knowledge that is sometimes absent in some treatments of U.S. Jewish life,” scholar Jeremy Dauber told JNS.
The Irish bill is “one-sided political theater” and “blatant double standard,” per the bipartisan group of members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
“It is profoundly sad that Jewish Americans are discussing worst-case scenarios,” stated Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the ADL.
