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<\/a>\u2018Buffer zone\u2019 bill will pass into law this week, NYC Council speaker says<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nDebra Nussbaum Cohen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The New York City Council intends to pass a bill creating a protest-free \u201cbuffer zone\u201d around houses of worship and a measure to create a hotline for reporting antisemitic and other hate crimes this week, according to Julie Menin, the council speaker.<\/span><\/p>\n Both bills were debated during a recent 10-hour city council\u00a0hearing<\/a>, during which officials from the city, NYPD and Jewish organizations testified, as well as members of the public, including those who opposed and supported the proposed laws.<\/span><\/p>\n The first Jew to serve as speaker of the 51-member council, Menin announced the impending passage of the bills at an annual legislative breakfast held by the Council of Jewish Organizations of Flatbush, Brooklyn, on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n COJO gave the council member its distinguished leadership award. Menin opened her remarks by citing the upsurge of Jew-hatred in New York and nationally, most recently the attack on a Reform synagogue with a preschool in West Bloomfield, Mich., a Detroit suburb.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWith hate crimes against Jews constituting more than any other group of hate crimes in our great city combined, I want to make no apology about insisting on a proportionate response to disproportionate discrimination,\u201d Menin said.<\/span><\/p>\n She noted that for her, it is personal.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMy mother\u2019s mother barely made it through\u201d the Holocaust in Hungary, she told attendees. Her mother\u2019s father was murdered \u201cjust because he happened to be born Jewish,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n She promised increased funding for \u201csmall schools and houses of worship that do not have adequate resources.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe will provide those security resources,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n NYC Comptroller Mark Levine introduced Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), who was awarded COJO\u2019s distinguished statesman award.<\/span><\/p>\n Levine began by speaking Hebrew. \u201cBoker tov,\u201d he said, \u201cgood morning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n He also spoke Hebrew when he was sworn in on a\u00a0Chumash<\/em>, a Five Books of Moses, on Jan. 1.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI got a lot of heat for it online,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I decided I\u2019m just going to speak more Hebrew. I really don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Levine, whose role is essentially that of New York City\u2019s chief financial officer, said that he is committed to investing the city\u2019s pension funds in Israel, among investments in many other countries.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe have a diversified portfolio invested in every economy including investments in the State of Israel,\u201d he said. \u201cI have a fiduciary responsibility\u00a0 here beyond politics, and I promise you I will never back down on that commitment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Levine\u2019s predecessor as comptroller was Brad Lander, who is now facing off against Goldman in the upcoming Democratic primary election to represent New York City\u2019s 10th District, which encompasses lower Manhattan and communities along the western edge of Brooklyn.<\/span><\/p>\n Lander, who endorsed Zohran Mamdani during the latter\u2019s successful mayoral run, has criticized the Israeli government. Mamdani has said that the city should boycott Israel financially and that he would have the Israeli prime minister arrested in New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n Goldman was elected in 2022 to Congress, where he now co-chairs the House Bipartisan Task Force on Combating Antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n In his remarks accepting COJO\u2019s award, Goldman said that \u201cantisemitism isn\u2019t rising. It is skyrocketing on both the left and the right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt is my firm belief that fighting antisemitism must be a bipartisan effort, because if fighting antisemitism or even supporting Israel becomes a partisan football, then Jews lose and Israel loses,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI will always stand up for the Jewish community and always stand up for the State of Israel, the only Jewish state in the world,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n Goldman promised \u201cto push bills that increase funding to combat antisemitism on campus and to expose who is giving and what countries are giving money to our universities, and what they are getting back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n That has also been a focus for the Trump administration, which has released extensive data on which countries are funding which U.S. universities and to what extent.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI will continue to call out antisemitism wherever it exists, on the left or the right,\u201d Goldman said. \u201cThat is how we must lead on this issue.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n At the event, Letitia James, the state attorney general, introduced New York City Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch.<\/span><\/p>\n After receiving COJO\u2019s distinguished public service award, Tisch spoke about the double Torah portion, about constructing the Tabernacle in the desert at the end of the book of Exodus, read in synagogues worldwide on the prior day.<\/span><\/p>\n Tisch, who like the other honorees is Jewish, likened it to the work that COJO\u2019s lay leadership does to support social services for the Brooklyn Jewish community.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMoses gathered the people to contribute their talents and resources so that the entire community could build something sacred together,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> \u2018Buffer zone\u2019 bill will pass into law this week, NYC Council speaker says Debra Nussbaum Cohen \u201cI want to make no apology about insisting on a proportionate response to disproportionate discrimination,\u201d Julie Menin said. New York City Council speaker Julie Menin is honored by COJO Flatbush, on right is Rep. 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\n\u201cI want to make no apology about insisting on a proportionate response to disproportionate discrimination,\u201d Julie Menin said.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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New York City Council speaker Julie Menin is honored by COJO Flatbush, on right is Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.), March 15, 2026. Credit: Credit Alex Krales\/NYC Council Media Unit.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/me.jnsi.org\/uploads\/2026\/03\/55149445093_68d7e480ff_o-scaled.jpg\")
New York City Council speaker Julie Menin is honored by COJO Flatbush, March 15, 2026. Credit: Credit Alex Krales\/NYC Council Media Unit.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n![\"Menin\"](\"https:\/\/me.jnsi.org\/uploads\/2026\/03\/55149518304_1aed2ae90b_o-scaled.jpg\")
New York City Council speaker Julie Menin is honored by COJO Flatbush, March 15, 2026. Credit: Credit Alex Krales\/NYC Council Media Unit<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n
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