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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.

“Gloria was iconic,” Ruth Messinger, a former Manhattan borough president, told JNS. “This is a sad day for women.”
Many Jewish lifelong Democrats plan to vote for Blakeman because they see him as ‘the bully that’s going to stop Mamdani,” a mental health worker told JNS.
“I wouldn’t let Zohran Mamdani get away with the virulent antisemitic comments he’s made,” he said. “I would tell him to stop and if he didn’t, I would take action, which the governor has the power to do.”
“What does he want from this?” Santiago Vidal Calvo, a Manhattan Institute analyst, told JNS. “Is this a publicity stunt?”
‘The Holocaust cannot be a static discipline that is discussed and forgotten,” said Gideon Taylor of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which is funding the program.
“I’m an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, so antisemitism is why I’m here in the first place,” the mother told JNS. “To see it out in full effect in the daylight is awful.”
Bill Ackman, who is Jewish, wrote that he plans to create a nonprofit rather than working with universities in part due to “politics outweighing meritocracy, protests that disrupt learning” and the “curse of antisemitism” on campuses.
One of the tour’s goals is to put “indirect pressure” on cities whose leaders aren’t protecting Jewish residents, the chair of the Justice Department’s task force on Jew-hatred told JNS.
“This funding directly connects Cornell Tech’s technical capabilities with New York City’s recent policy goal of reaching 30% tree canopy coverage to combat extreme heat and climate change,” Michael Samuelian of Cornell Tech told JNS.
“It isn’t assisted suicide,” bioethicist Arthur Caplan told JNS. “It is managing dying in a more humane way.”
Miriam Elman of the Academic Engagement Network told JNS that “just because you sign a statement or position, it doesn’t mean you are teaching in a prejudicial way.”
“Deliberately choosing a synagogue and driving a car into it while 2,000 people were inside is inherently an act of hate,” Yaacov Behrman, a liaison for Chabad headquarters, told JNS.