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Rikki Zagelbaum

Rikki Zagelbaum

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

“The changing educational system is central to ‘deradicalizing,’ as the phrase is used, the Palestinian population and future generations,” Gerald Steinberg of NGO Monitor told JNS.
“Anyone with a heart should be ashamed of the response of the mayor of New York City to the Oct. 7 massacre,” the Israeli consul general said.
“Mamdani could not even give us one day to mourn without defaming the Jewish people and giving cover to our enemies,” Inna Vernikov, a Jewish member of the New York City Council, told JNS. “We will not let Mamdani and his radical pals rewrite Oct. 7.”
“This is my responsibility, that each one of the kids will get the same treatment, the same money,” Mody Kidon of the Israeli Children’s Fund told JNS.
Rabbi Yisroel Rubin “leaves behind a tremendous legacy, serving as a Chabad emissary for the Capital Region for 52 years and playing an instrumental role in shaping the capital region’s Jewish community,” the governor told JNS.
“Perhaps he will stop his relentless incitement, hatred and blood libels against the State of Israel,” the Israeli consul general in New York stated.
“The largest Jewish city in the world has learned to live with antisemitic hate crime as the baseline three years after Oct. 7,” Evan R. Bernstein, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS.
The GOP congressman “stands with Israel, and he stands up to antisemitism,” Stacy Caridi said.
Mohamed Abdou, a former Columbia University professor who describes himself as a “Muslim anarchist,” is scheduled to address students virtually as part of his “Death to the Akademy” tour.
“We feel that we made one huge achievement and that is to move the conversation from whether these crimes happened to what are their consequences,” Israeli legal scholar Cochav Elkayam-Levy told JNS.
“The juxtaposition of us being at the United Nations, and all those people walking out while literally their employees helped to perpetuate Oct. 7 was put in a certain frame,” Rabbi Steven Burg of Aish told JNS.
“Gaza’s media ecosystem has been contaminated by proximity to Hamas and its allies,” HonestReporting told JNS. “This is something CPJ simply refuses to admit despite being shown, repeatedly, to be complicit in helping the system to perpetuate while placing the blame on Israel.”