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“People have every right to protest, but what’s happening here goes beyond that,” Regina Sassoon Friedland, of the American Jewish Committee, told JNS. “The Jewish people will not be intimidated to halt our events and activities.”
“The results in Iran will be amazing,” the U.S. president wrote. “And if Iran’s new leaders are smart, Iran can have a great and prosperous future.”
The U.S.-led forum focused on how to “effectively disrupt and deter Iran’s terrorist plots and other illicit schemes,” the U.S. State Department said.
“I’m in there as the religious Jewish guy,” Henry Stern told JNS. “There’s got to be room for me, too.”
“I would wager that Jews are overrepresented as NRA members versus our percentage of the population,” Ed Friedman, who edits the NRA’s “Shooting Illustrated magazine,” told JNS.
The state found that the district failed to protect a Jewish football player and in its subsequent investigation.
“New Yorkers started to ask themselves, ‘What was the motivation of any one executive order?’ Was it driven by self-interest, or was it, in fact, being driven by what it should be, which is public interest?” the New York City mayor said.
Prosecutors said that the man used social media to incite attacks and to promote the terror group.
“At a time of rising antisemitism and an escalating security crisis, demand continues to far outpace available funding,” said Eric Fingerhut, president and CEO of Jewish Federations of North America.
The Israeli envoy to the United Nations attended the ceremony honoring a Westchester County teacher.
“Whether it is denying the Holocaust, any genocide, or any atrocity, any attempt to rewrite the historical record is an insult to the victims at Jasenovac and an insult to any victim of the atrocities,” the U.S. special envoy said.
“Riots with Palestinian flags—not in the streets of Gaza, but in Queens in New York,” Ambassador Danny Danon tweeted.
Iranian woman arrested at Los Angeles airport for allegedly trafficking weapons for Islamic Republic
The Justice Department said that Shamim Mafi, 44, became a lawful permanent resident in 2016.
