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Aaron Bandler is an award-winning national reporter at JNS based in Los Angeles. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, he worked for nearly eight years at the Jewish Journal, and before that, at the Daily Wire.

The North American Values Institute told JNS that “it’s heartening to see school leaders stepping up to hold teachers accountable.”
“They will push legislation very hard to end the Iran war, and it’s not inconceivable that they could get a fair amount of Republican support for that,” William Galston of Brookings told JNS.
There’s no place in the Senate for a “terror apologist who justified the attempted murder of 110 Jewish preschoolers as ‘hurt people hurt people,’” Arie Lipnick of CAM-Action told JNS.
A House Education and Workforce Committee spokesman told JNS that the determination “raises serious concerns that are consistent with the committee’s findings about antisemitism in Berkeley Unified School District.”
A George Washington University Program on Extremism report found that CAIR has been targeting Zionism in public schools.
“This political environment could discourage congressional committee staff and federal agency personnel from pursuing investigations or enforcement actions involving antisemitism,” Karen Paikin Barall of the Brandeis Center told JNS.
“We urge Congress to make the district fully accountable for its decisions and provide real consequences that lead to actionable change,” Tali Klima of the Bay Area Jewish Coalition told JNS.
“I can work here,” Modi Ephraim, a former Israeli ambassador to the Netherlands and to Peru, told JNS. “We can do a lot here.”
A GOP consultant told JNS that “if the Democrats take the U.S. Senate, and that is far from certain, I would expect more criticism of Israel, especially if Netanyahu is still in charge.”
Bob Horenstein of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland told JNS that the Federation “spent over $1.5 million last year for security for our community institutions.”
“In this political environment, he may be as reliable a supporter as possible that the Democratic caucus would sign off on for the position,” political science scholar Dan Schnur told JNS.
Vlad Khaykin of the Simon Wiesenthal Center told JNS that the Iranian regime is exploiting “social divisions.”