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Moshe Davis told JNS that if his successor “wants to be successful in this office, she’s going to have to understand that anti-Israel activism leads to attacks on Jewish people.”
“Medford can’t use taxpayer dollars, pensions included, to run an ideological boycott,” Mark Goldfeder, of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS.
Officer Christopher Wagner alleges that he was passed over for promotions and subjected to antisemitic incidents over his 20-year career with the Livingston Police Department.
Rep. Virginia Foxx stated that she “won’t be deterred from my fight to protect Jewish students from discrimination on campuses across the nation.”
Antisemitism “subtly” hits students repeatedly until they become “numb to it,” a senior at San Diego State University told JNS.
“There’s a lot of difficulties in every country, even those that you would think would not have antisemitism,” the rabbi and State Department official said.
“The Bible teaches: ‘In all circumstances give thanks,’” the president stated.
The “Justice for Shireen Act” would require an independent investigation and a congressional report on the 2022 death of Shireen Abu Akleh.
The U.S. Education Department released new guidelines on “prayer and religious expression in public schools.”
“I was a rabbi before I became a lawyer, which informs a lot of my worldview,” the National Jewish Advocacy Center CEO told JNS.
New York advocates say the proposal protects religious freedom while preserving free speech.
The U.S. defense secretary said that the Ivy’s leaders “encouraged a campus environment that celebrated Hamas, allowed attacks on Jews and still promotes discrimination based on race in violation of Supreme Court decisions.”
