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“It’s very simple. He’s become the mayor of New York, whether we like it or not,” Rabbi David Katz told JNS.
“I have criticisms of the Israeli government as I have criticisms of my own government,” Levine has said. “I’ve also been open about the fact that I have very deep personal ties to Israel.”
Rabbi Josh Joseph, executive vice president and COO of the Orthodox Union, said that he “can’t imagine an American Jewish world without the impact and influence of Rabbi Julie Berman.”
Christine Todd Whitman, a former New Jersey governor, stated that Zimmer “was a friend and a principled elected official.”
James Fishback demanded a transcript of a supposed meeting between the Israeli prime minister and Jay Collins that doesn’t appear to have occurred.
“Wherever anti-Zionism has been normalized, it has led to an increase of hostilities toward Israel and the Jewish people,” Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch told JNS. “I would welcome the mayor waking up one day and understanding that.”
The new mayor’s actions “pose an immediate threat to the safety of Jewish communities in New York City and could lead to an increase in violent antisemitic attacks throughout the city,” the Israeli diplomat said.
“Bias and discrimination that can lead to outright antisemitism has no place in California,” said AJC CEO Ted Deutch.
“The decision to erase official statements affirming the safety and protection of Jews is not merely tone-deaf; it is shameful,” stated Mark Goldfeder, of the National Jewish Advocacy Center.
“Our voices of moral conscience, of Jewish conscience, will continue to be peacefully raised wherever you go,” stated Rabbi Avi Weiss.
Get off computer and meet with legislators, police, pro-Israel activist Matthew Taub tells Canadians
Taub told JNS that he founded Unapologetically Jewish, “because I’ve got tired of hearing, ‘I’m scared, and I don’t know what I need to do.’”
Four suspects from the Azazima Bedouin tribe in the Negev Desert were indicted in the Beersheva District Court.