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Jessica Russak-Hoffman

Jessica Russak-Hoffman is a reporter for JNS in Seattle.

“If an institution is not complying with provincial legislation, it should not benefit from the receipt of public funds,” said Richard Robertson, of B’nai Brith Canada.
Brandon Johnson mentioned the pro-Israel group despite it having never “spent a dime opposing you or any other candidate for local office,” the Jewish United Fund of Chicago wrote to the mayor.
“New York as we know it would not be New York as we know it without the Jews,” the prominent Reform rabbi told JNS.
Police are increasing patrols around the Jewish neighborhood for Shabbat and Yom Kippur following the incident.
Prosecutors say warden Samir Ousman Alsheikh “inflicted and ordered subordinates to inflict severe physical and mental pain and suffering on prisoners.”
“We’re all going to be in shul on Monday, and there isn’t going to be a shul in the world, no matter how small the minyan or how large the minyan, that doesn’t have somebody at the door guarding people, checking who comes in,” Deborah Lipstadt told JNS.
“That’s how we combat antisemitism,” Rabbi Rachel Short told JNS. “We let people see who we are and what we do.”
“Such threats are intended not merely to offend, but to terrorize,” Vlad Khaykin of the Simon Wiesenthal Center told JNS. “To make Jewish Americans afraid to open their mail, enter their institutions or live openly as Jews.”
Rabbi Itchel Krasnjansky of Chabad in Hawaii told JNS that “we don’t experience really any antisemitism, besides for the pro-Palestinian crap that goes on here, like everywhere else.”
“Most people in the United States are not aware of the fact that over 45 U.S. citizens were killed,” Ruby Chen, whose son, Itay, was killed by Hamas, told JNS.
The Seattle Police Department is “on track to hire more than 140 officers,” a spokeswoman for Mayor Katie Wilson told JNS.
The Trump administration asked a court to overturn a ruling blocking sanctions against Francesca Albanese, a U.N. special adviser with a history of Jew-hatred.