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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.

The student, who declined to be named, said that “within College Democrats, I am afraid to tell people I am Jewish.”
“There’s some nexus between the real antisemitic Palestinian protesters and people who don’t study,” Simon Hankinson, of the Heritage Foundation, told JNS.
“What we are seeing is an ecosystem in which extremist communities, influential commentators, platform dynamics and, in some cases, state-backed information operations can all reinforce one another,” Alina Bricman of B’nai B’rith told JNS.
“It’s the same thing if you asked me to be led by someone who openly hates black people or hates Asian people or a member of the KKK,” James Mai told JNS.
“Vang is currently riding a wave of progressive energy that has been deciding Democratic primaries across the country,” Dan Schnur, a political science lecturer, told JNS.
“The extension of daylight saving time will create an extreme hardship on observant Jews,” Rabbi A.D. Motzen, of Agudah, told JNS. “It would be extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible, to arrive on time for a job and will affect the start time of our schools.”
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesman told JNS that the administration “acted well within its statutory and constitutional authority” in Khalil’s case, “as it does with any alien who advocates for violence, glorifies and supports terrorists, harasses Jews and damages property.”
“Whoever ends up getting this seat, they’re not going to have as much foreign policy experience as Lindsey Graham,” Christopher Cooper, a political science professor at Western Carolina University, told JNS.
Rabbi Yosef Langer of Chabad of San Francisco told JNS that blowing the shofar has been “bringing people together since the beginning of time, and baseball is a sport that brings all peoples together.”
“If your intro professor talks about how evil capitalism is and how America is a colonial project and how Zionism is part of that colonial project, you repeat that stuff because that’s part of getting a good grade,” report author Jay Greene told JNS.
University of Haifa researcher Shlomit Lir told JNS that volunteer editors described harassment, fear of sanctions and emotional exhaustion after contributing to articles about Israel and Jewish topics following Oct. 7.
Rep. Haley Stevens defended her record and support for a two-state solution as Abdul El-Sayed accused AIPAC of influencing U.S. foreign policy.