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Menachem Wecker

Menachem Wecker is the U.S. bureau news editor of JNS.

Sam Markstein, of the Republican Jewish Coalition, told JNS that Mamdani’s first veto as mayor “serves to accommodate vile antisemitic protests comes as no surprise.”
“He wants to flex his authority as mayor of New York City, so he brings the desk outside to show he should be taken seriously,” Beverly Hallberg, president of District Media Group, told JNS.
“It becomes comfort, continuity and a way to feel connected to tradition and to one another at home,” Talia Sabag, of the Manischewitz parent company Kayko, told JNS.
“He was experimenting with notions of identity well before ‘ethnicity’ came into play,” Jenna Weissman Joselit told JNS. “He was very ahead of his time.”
Sharon Liberman Mintz, of Jewish Theological Seminary, told JNS that the 1526 Haggadah “is one of the most exciting books that I have ever had the pleasure to turn the pages of.”
“We are treating this matter with the utmost seriousness,” a spokeswoman for the Toronto police told JNS.
“Various communities of Jews and Christians imagined their Haman differently from one another, usually unaware that there were other options to consider,” the professor Adam Silverstein told JNS.
“If the pattern holds over time and continues to grow as the months get warmer, then you start to look at things that changed at the turn of the year that might have explained it,” Rafael Mangual, of the Manhattan Institute, told JNS.
“I think the government should be funding those universities that see themselves as repositories of cultural inheritance and of a Western tradition that undergirds what America stands for,” Yeshiva University’s president, who testified at the hearing, told JNS.
“I was a rabbi before I became a lawyer, which informs a lot of my worldview,” the National Jewish Advocacy Center CEO told JNS.
“We were able to read certain sources against the grain to extract women’s voices or women’s experiences,” Debra Kaplan, coauthor of the new book “A Woman Is Responsible for Everything,” told JNS.
“If he was partially human, we can also expect human behavior from him,” Haggai Olshanetsky, of the University of Warsaw and lead author of a new study, told JNS.