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“In the United States of America, we resolve our differences at the ballot box,” Rep. John Larson said of the threats against Matt Lesser.
“Things have gotten better, but no thanks to the ‘Cornell Daily Sun,’” student columnist Ezra Galperin told JNS.
The effort is an “asset to the Jewish community,” legal scholar Alan Dershowitz told JNS.
“Our security personnel have become crucial partners in keeping our community safe,” said Howard Tilman, rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Scotch Plains, N.J.
Manilan Houle, a new member of the Indigenous Commission of the City of Duluth, is introducing his mother and nephew to challah and cholent.
The lawsuit alleges that the Met’s then-curator of European paintings, a leading expert on Nazi art looting, “knew or should have known” the artwork was stolen when it was sold in 1972.
Eliana Birman, a sophomore at Barnard College, told JNS that “we know what it’s like to have to fight with both facts and emotion.”
“It represents the fact that we’re not all rowing in the same direction when it comes to our responsibilities” to the Jewish community, Rabbi Kenneth Brander told JNS. “It’s very painful to see that.”
A recent Marist College poll had better numbers for Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee and frontrunner, who has a history of anti-Israel statements.
The ice-cream company co-founder posted a video of himself making a watermelon sorbet in solidarity with Palestinians.
“Bigotry toward Jewish people is one of the symptoms of decaying civilizations throughout human history,” David Holt told JNS.
“This was a sustained pattern of foreign money flowing into a New York City mayoral race, a clear violation of both federal and city campaign finance rules,” per the Coolidge Reagan Foundation.
