{"id":102384,"date":"2026-01-16T17:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102384\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:08:23","slug":"nyc-council-speaker-julie-menin-rolls-out-initiatives-to-fight-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102384\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin rolls out initiatives to fight antisemitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City Council Speaker Julie Menin rolled out a wave of initiatives to combat antisemitism Friday \u2014 potentially putting her at odds with Mayor Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>Menin, the Council\u2019s first Jewish speaker, unveiled a five-point legislative plan, including establishing safety perimeters around houses of worship during protests and boosting security for private schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI make no apology about insisting on a proportionate response to the disproportionate discrimination against our Jewish community,\u201d she said from the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38202358\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/new-york-city-council-speaker-118794775.jpg\" alt=\"New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin speaking at a press conference with Mayor Zorhan and Raphael Espinal.\" class=\"wp-image-38202358\"  \/>City Council Speaker Julie Menin rolled out a five-point legislative plan to help combat antisemitism in NYC, including establishing safety perimeters around houses of worship during protests. Michael Nigro for NY Post<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38202357\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/elias-rosner-stabbed-tuesday-afternoon-117504192.jpg\" alt=\"Elias Rosner displays a bandage on his chest after being stabbed.\" class=\"wp-image-38202357\"  \/>Elias Rosner was stabbed after leaving a Crown Heights Synagogue. Gabriella Bass<\/p>\n<p>The proposed legislation comes from rising concerns in the Jewish community after Mamdani on his first day in office ended executive orders from the Eric Adams administration that focused on fighting antisemitism.<\/p>\n<p>The orders adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance\u2019s definition of antisemitism and barred city officials from boycotting or divesting from Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City Council Speaker Julie Menin rolled out a wave of initiatives to combat antisemitism Friday \u2014 potentially putting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3862,301,19077,57,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-102384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-antisemitism","9":"tag-city-council","10":"tag-julie-menin","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}