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“Holding a vote that seeks to demonize the Jewish homeland on a day when Jewish students will not be able to participate is exclusionary, biased and flat-out wrong,” Maryland Hillel stated.
The U.S. president said his Israel and Arab-backed deal “spares the lives” of remaining Hamas members and claimed more than 25,000 have already died.
The survey reveals sharp and growing divides between Republicans and Democrats about support for the Jewish state and the war against Hamas.
“It’s built out of language—contributions from people all over” the city, Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson told JNS.
The Democratic frontrunner for mayor, who had no speaking role, reportedly received a standing ovation.
“The future of our yeshivahs, our shuls and the well-being of our neighborhoods will all be directly affected by its outcome,” wrote Avi Greenstein, Boro Park Jewish Community Council CEO.
António Guterres, United Nations secretary-general, said he has “deep” concern about rising Jew-hated and referred to “hatred and intolerance in all their forms.”
The former New York governor said that his decisions to lockdown yeshivas and limit prayer gatherings during the pandemic “caused pain in the Jewish community.”
“It’s basically rewarding Qatar for a whole slew of policies that run counter to any understanding of U.S. interests in the region,” JINSA told JNS.
“Any congregation that will accept Zohran Mamdani over Yom Kippur is not a Jewish congregation,” Liel Leibovitz, editor-at-large of “Tablet” magazine, told JNS.
Among them are 21 entities and 17 individuals, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.
“We much prefer to see their work on the screen, and not them in court,” stated Rory Lancman, senior counsel of the Brandeis Center.
