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Menachem Wecker is the U.S. bureau news editor of 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.
“Even though Frank Gehry was reluctant to unveil his Jewish identity until later in life, his work displays subversion of convention,” leading architect Daniel Libeskind told JNS. “That aspect is certainly a Jewish sensibility.”
“They could go to a museum even in the Gulf, where people could see another side of Israel, an artistic side, a beautiful side,” Bernard Shapero told JNS.
Albert Goldman “was brilliant,” June Brandt, senior research analyst in postal history at the U.S. Postal Service, told JNS. “His focus was to make the New York City post office relevant and well known.”
“It’s not just a display of the scrolls, which of course in and of themselves would be powerful,” but other “wow objects” leave viewers in awe, the museum’s director of exhibits told JNS.