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By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Aug. 3, 2026 / JNS) The U.S. Justice Department sued Montgomery County, Md., on Monday, asking a federal court to block the enforcement of new restrictions on carrying firearms in and around synagogues.The lawsuit follows a Justice Department warning on Friday that the county should refrain from enforcing the ordinance against religious congregants or face […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(Aug. 3, 2026 / JNS) When Luc fils Jasmin applied to join the Washington State Human Rights Commission, an official state panel, he failed to disclose that his son, Luc Jasmin III, was eastern Washington outreach representative to the state’s governor, according to a copy of his Jan. 27, 2023, application, which JNS obtained.The governor […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(July 27, 2026 / JNS) Despite a petition from a man whose wife was killed in the 9/11 attacks, calling for Zohran Mamdani to be excluded from the annual commemoration of the 2001 attacks, the New York City mayor said that he plans to attend.“I will proudly honor the families, the survivors, the first responders […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(July 24, 2026 / JNS) As Jewish organizations linked New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rhetoric about Israel to an antisemitic stabbing in Manhattan, the Council on American-Islamic Relations defended the mayor without mentioning the attack, which one Jewish group described as “gaslighting.”In a statement issued on July 24, CAIR and its New York chapter […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(July 24, 2026 / JNS) Raul Morales, 51, who allegedly yelled “Alahu akbar” while stabbing a Jewish man and an Asian man on Thursday on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, has been charged with attempted murder as a hate crime, the New York City Police Department told JNS.Morales faces charges of “attempted murder as a hate […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(July 20, 2026 / JNS) Doug Basler, the Republican seeking to unseat Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), said his immediate focus is not on defeating the longtime congressman but on preventing socialist Kshama Sawant from advancing past the Aug. 4 primary.Basler told JNS on Monday that Sawant, a former Seattle City Council member, and Democratic challenger […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
(July 16, 2026 / JNS) The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism released a substantially updated version of its backgrounder on the Democratic Socialists of America on Wednesday, adding material from the past two years and highlighting New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as an example of an elected official advancing an anti-Israel agenda. “The previous update to […]
By Jessica Russak-Hoffman - JNS
The buffer zone would be twice the size of the one Mamdani vetoed earlier this year.
August 7, 2026 
