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Rebecca Szlechter

Rebecca Szlechter

Rebecca Szlechter is a reporter at JNS based in New York City.

“Not everyone can go to a rally,” Aaron Herman, who leads the nonprofit IMPACT, told JNS. “Not everyone can go out in the streets, but they can go from their couch.”
The governor spoke to JNS at one of the distribution sites, where the Met Council is giving more than 2 million pounds of kosher food ahead of Rosh Hashanah, amid what its CEO says are rising costs and unemployment.
The family of a Sept. 11 victim and Muslim and Catholic activists are among speakers slated for a Sept. 8 “Unite against Terror Rally” near the NYC-DSA headquarters, at the corner of Essex Street and Straus Square in Downtown Manhattan.
“I will be there at the event as I was last year to commemorate those who were stolen from us,” the mayor said, of the upcoming Sept. 11 commemoration.
“We have no reason to believe this incident was an act of terrorism,” the NYPD commissioner said. “This was an extraordinarily dangerous situation unfolding in the heart of Times Square, the crossroads of the world.”
“It was almost half Jewish,” David Herszenson, a physician and tour guide, told a group on a walking tour. “The south Bronx was majority Jewish for a while.”
Nearly two dozen donors gave more than $61,000 combined to the Michigan Democratic Senate nominee and Dan Bilzerian, who called Rep. Randy Fine a “fat Jew” during his campaign.
Brad Lander, the Jewish former New York City comptroller who has accused the Jewish state of “genocide,” was accosted by anti-Israel protesters recently.
The man allegedly told an Australian Jewish couple that he was sorry Hitler had not “finished the job.”
Four Hatzola ambulances were set on fire in the heavily-Jewish London neighborhood of Golders Green in March.
Nathan Villas Laatsch admitted to copying classified intelligence from his workspace and giving it to an undercover FBI agent whom he thought represented a foreign state.
“For years, UNRWA schools have incited violence against Israel, UNRWA employees actively participated in the Oct. 7 massacre and throughout the war, terrorists carried out attacks against Israelis from UNRWA facilities,” the Israeli envoy told JNS.