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Sagit Sade Attia

Jan 2, 2026, 11:20 PM

The clean slate is a trap: New York’s new politics of erasure

It's not a fresh start, but institutionalized amnesia, in which minority groups lose their protections and violence waits in the wings

Dec 17, 2025, 9:20 AM

Hanukkah Under Fire: the Test for Free Societies

Rabbi Eliyahu Schlinger, a Chabad emissary in Sydney since 2008, pictured with his infant son. Schlinger was murdered while organizing a public Hanukkah celebration

A Holocaust survivor shielding his wife during a Hanukkah attack exposes how the world’s oldest hatred adapts to modern democracies, and what Jewish continuity and civic responsibility now demand. He was a Holocaust survivor. She was his wife. In a moment that...

About Me

Sagit Sade Attia is the National Senior Director of Academic Action at the Israeli-American Council and built the SHIELD Resource & Support Center. A former litigator before the Israeli Supreme Court, she works at the intersection of law, academia, Jewish continuity, and democratic resilience, addressing antisemitism and radicalization in public institutions.