Legal Affairs
“Religious freedom is an empty promise when Americans can’t get their day in court,” Joseph Davis, senior counsel at Becket, told JNS. “That is what happened to Daniel Grand.”
Joel Taubman, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS that the Etiwanda School District “let a family see that reports wouldn’t go anywhere, and then incidents happened again and again and again.”
Sarah Golabek-Goldman, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS that “no student should have an experience like the Jewish student in this case, where she reported the harassment and then she was treated like the harassers.”
“Attorney Pomeranz acted knowingly to bring about my arrest, my prosecution, and even my imprisonment ... for reporting for service the day after the Oct. 7 massacre,” soldier A. said.
Max Long, who was assaulted alongside fellow Jewish student Michael Kaminsky in November 2024, told JNS that the attack and its aftermath have kept him from fully returning to campus.
The Israeli premier dubbed the report a “malicious fabrication,” saying that no conversation was held with his Emirati counterpart in the period before the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre.
The move comes just days after Argentine President Javier Milei pledged to sanction oil companies drilling in the British overseas territory in the South Atlantic Ocean.
“The county passed a law their own prosecutor thinks is probably unconstitutional and certainly dangerous,” Rabbi Menashe Shapiro, a plaintiff in the case, told JNS.
The Taybeh municipality said it was filing a civil case in the United States seeking damages in relation to so-called settler violence.
The June decision reversed an Oct. 2025 order by Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz prohibiting visits by Red Cross representatives for security reasons.
Artyom Kirpichenok is said to have visited Iran several times, and has consistently criticized Israel in books and articles.
“Our residents come to us at one of the most vulnerable moments of their lives,” Mother Mary Rose Heery said. “Illinois cannot ask us to replace that promise with help ending their lives.”
