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Debra Nussbaum Cohen

Debra Nussbaum Cohen

Debra Nussbaum Cohen is the New York correspondent for JNS.org. She is an award-winning journalist, who has written about Jewish issues for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and New York magazine, as well as many Jewish publications. She is also author of Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter: Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls into the Covenant.

Michael Trager told JNS that he feels ignored by city leaders after his wife, 71, was killed as they crossed a street together on their way home from a date night dinner.
Mark Levine “was gonna get grilled,” a source who attends services at the Altneu Synagogue, told JNS. “Neither side wanted an uneasy dinner.”
The presumptive next representative of New York’s 12th Congressional District spoke with reporters after being detained by the Israeli military for harvesting olives without permission.
“I did not ask for the religion of each of the person that was put forward,” the mayor said in July, after Jewish groups noted that none of the 18 people he appointed to the committee were Jewish.
Mark Treyger told JNS that the street was named for the JCRC “at a moment when antisemitism too often defines the conversation about Jewish life.”
“Most teachers would not want to touch this with a 10-foot pole, certainly not at the middle school level,” Alisa Berger of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education told JNS.
Mark Levine “pledged many times to restore New York City’s investment in Israel Bonds and had it right when he called them ‘a long-term safe and secure investment,’” an Israel Bonds spokesman told JNS.
“Jewish New Yorkers deserve to mourn in peace, free from hatred and intimidation,” stated New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. “There is no excuse for this. None.”
“This year, instead of finding a decline since last year, there was a leveling off or new normal of engagement in Jewish life,” Mimi Kravetz of the Federation, which commissioned the study, told JNS.
Honan Strategy Group told JNS that “we want civil and business leaders to enact policies that will make the city, the state and the world a better place to live.”
Rabbi Rachel Timoner, of Congregation Beth Elohim, told JNS that there ought to be a conversation “to break down assumptions.”
“We blessed the mayor that he should be a uniter and bring New Yorkers together,” Rabbi Yaacov Behrman told JNS.