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Aaron Bandler is an award-winning national reporter at JNS based in Los Angeles. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, he worked for nearly eight years at the Jewish Journal, and before that, at the Daily Wire.

Tali Klima of the Bay Area Jewish Coalition-Action told JNS that “we will continue to support any candidate who supports the Jewish community and stands up to the extremism that Khanna is intent on spreading.”
The California Democrat told JNS that he’s “proud” of his pro-Israel record and is “gratified to be moving to the general.”
Joel Kotkin of Chapman University told JNS that “whatever disease that led New York to elect Mamdani has not spread quite as badly here.”
The Democratic political consultant Jared Sclar told JNS that “the results will cut in more than one direction, and that split is the story.”
“I like to think of myself as a Bill Clinton Democrat,” Ethan Agarwal told JNS. “Can we restore that?”
“This is an important, if overdue, step toward protecting a knowledge space that should represent historical complexity rather than politicized framing,” Shlomit Lir of the University of Haifa told JNS.
Mark Goldfeder, of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS that it is “unbelievable” that the police did not immediately classify the incident as a hate crime.
Lori Lowenthal Marcus, of the Deborah Project, told JNS that the settlement requires of Sequoia Union High School District “policies of transparency, unbiased decision-making and concrete protections from antisemitic indoctrination and bullying.”
The Israeli firm Gambit Security said that the cyber attack had the hallmarks of prior Iranian attacks.
District leaders ought to be “ashamed of themselves for giving such a dangerous group unfettered access to their schools and students,” Casey Ryan, of Defending Education, told JNS.
Regardless of the findings of a recent Democratic National Committee “autopsy” report, a “majority of Americans, including Democrats, support the U.S.-Israel relationship,” Brian Romick, of Democratic Majority for Israel, told JNS.
Rabbi Jason Rosner, of Congregation B’nai Emet, told JNS that “we are prepared to evacuate our Torahs if necessary.”