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Rikki Zagelbaum

Rikki Zagelbaum

Rikki Zagelbaum is national reporter at JNS based in New York City.

Lori Lowenthal Marcus, legal director for the Deborah Project, told JNS that she fears that House Democrats are making allegations that could discourage institutions from taking legitimate complaints of Jew-hatred seriously.
The Jewish congressman said that ‘foreign actors’ might be promoting his opponent, Dan Bilzerian.
“We will keep litigating until we get to the truth,” Randy Mastro told JNS, after oral arguments in New York County Supreme Court. “I’m sure the court will hear us when these procedural issues are behind us.”
“I’m seeing what’s going on in New York,” Stav Cohen, founder of the Israeli nonprofit Frontline Advocates, told JNS. “I fear for my speakers’ lives.”
The mayor is not “an isolated New York phenomenon,” a Rockland County, N.Y., activist told JNS.
“They’ve done a lot of radical crazy stuff, but this goes beyond the pale,” Dov Hikind, a former New York state Assembly member, told JNS.
The meeting “focused on strategies to strengthen Jewish safety and belonging, maintain candid lines of communication and collaborate on issues where we have shared values and goals,” Phylisa Wisdom, executive director of the Mayor’s office to Combat Antisemitism, told JNS.
“I don’t know who he went through,” the board told JNS. “He didn’t go through us.”
Shelbit Exchange and Aban Tether helped Tehran evade sanctions and move money through cryptocurrency networks and an online gambling operation, the Trump administration said.
The percentage of hate crimes in the state so far this year targeting Jews, 5%, appeared to suggest an improvement over 2025, when Jews were targets of 6.8% of hate crimes, and the past year, when the figure was 6.3%.
“Gratitude is one of Judaism’s foundational values, and very much belongs on Rosh Hashanah,” Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, told JNS. “We will never forget the nearly 3,000 victims of this terror attack, many of whom were members of the Jewish community.”
Echoing what Jewish leaders have said, Amb. Bill White stated that Moshe Aryeh Friedman “has no mandate whatsoever to speak on behalf of the Jewish community.”