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The discussion came after a Washington meeting earlier this year with the foreign affairs minister of the UAE.
Esther Panitch, the only Jewish member of the Georgia state legislature, told JNS that she asked the local Democratic Party to reschedule the event, which is currently slated to occur on Rosh Hashanah.
The trial stop in the Buckeye State would help those who require consular help but don’t want to or can’t travel to New York.
The state was listed as one of 21, including the District of Columbia, that said that the Trump administration is unfairly going after the Ivy.
“I know Seattle’s Jewish community is acutely aware of a rise in antisemitism and is feeling anxiety and concern,” Katie Wilson told JNS, in the mayor’s first apparent comment on rising Jew-hatred since she assumed office in January.
“I don’t know who he went through,” the board told JNS. “He didn’t go through us.”
The cohort includes 392 new immigrants—246 men and 146 women.
The Berkeley project “has a record of promoting anti-Israel and antisemitic agendas,” Oleg Ivanov, of StandWithUs, told JNS. “We are deeply concerned that the same thing will happen in this training.”
“It’s a small technical change, but it’s obviously going to make a very significant difference by opening this up to the lowest-income New Yorkers, who struggle to make ends meet,” David Greenfield, of Met Council, told JNS.
The Federation told JNS exclusively that it is ending its engagement with a consultant who headed one of its communications projects after JNS reported that he advised attendees at a Federations conference to avoid using the word “Zionism.”
“My jaw kind of hit the floor for a second,” an attendee of the event told JNS.
Luc Jasmin III, a Democratic candidate for the Washington state House, previously told JNS that his father, who said at a meeting of the state panel that Jews seem to be “always crying over the antisemitism,” applied for the job “just like everyone else.”