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“We’re all going to be in shul on Monday, and there isn’t going to be a shul in the world, no matter how small the minyan or how large the minyan, that doesn’t have somebody at the door guarding people, checking who comes in,” Deborah Lipstadt told JNS.
“That’s how we combat antisemitism,” Rabbi Rachel Short told JNS. “We let people see who we are and what we do.”
City Hall is making “a mockery of open government, at least when it comes to the administration’s relationship with the Jewish community,” attorney Jack Lester told JNS.
“Michiganders deserve solutions, not slogans—and that’s exactly what Mike will bring to the U.S. Senate,” Alyssa Brouillet, communications director for the Rogers campaign, told JNS.
“A region already gripped by conflict and escalation does not need another nuclear power,” the four Democratic congressmen stated.
The vice president is reportedly engaged in a broader effort to mend ties with Republican Jews.
Rabbi Itchel Krasnjansky of Chabad in Hawaii told JNS that “we don’t experience really any antisemitism, besides for the pro-Palestinian crap that goes on here, like everywhere else.”
“This bill works very hard to balance our First Amendment constitutional rights between the right to free speech and the right to worship,” Rep. Tom Suozzi said.
Rabbi Binyamin Krauss, principal of SAR Academy, told JNS that the gathering is meant to be a “positive statement” that “We’re here. We’re Jewish. We want to be safe and express our Zionism.”
“To New Yorkers, I have never encouraged them to protest,” the New York City mayor told reporters on Wednesday.
“This man has appeared 22 times in court with so many excuses. He is completely unrepentant,” a court watcher who was present at the trial told JNS.
The survey, released by The New York Times and Siena University, found likely voters narrowly divided over military aid to Israel and sympathies toward Israelis and Palestinians, with sharp differences by age.
