Danielle Sassoon, who resigned from her position as Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, oversaw all investigations into federal crimes in the Southern District of New York, including the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams that the Trump administration has directed be dropped.

When Danielle Sassoon's college newspaper asked her two decades ago for three words she would use to describe herself, the first word the future lawyer said was "independent."

It happened some decades ago, when Elie Wiesel stood up to then-President Ronald Reagan when he was about to visit the German military cemetery in Bitburg, which contained the graves of SS members. But since then, there has been far too little public chutzpah from Jewish leaders.