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Menachem Wecker

Menachem Wecker is the executive editor (U.S.) of JNS.

Rabbi Itchel Krasnjansky of Chabad in Hawaii told JNS that “we don’t experience really any antisemitism, besides for the pro-Palestinian crap that goes on here, like everywhere else.”
“I am so excited to share these treasures with the public, as they have not been seen in 100 years,” Sharon Liberman Mintz, international Sotheby’s senior Judaica specialist, told JNS.
One man is accused of writing anti-Jewish things and drawing a Nazi swastika at a bus stop and another of slapping a victim’s Jewish head covering off.
“During this moment of spiking antisemitism, Jews can take a measure of comfort in recalling to ourselves and to all Americans how Hebraic ideas have helped shape American political language,” Rabbi Stu Halpern, of Yeshiva University, told JNS.
“It is deeply alarming that our community continues to be the primary target of hate in this city,” Evan R. Bernstein, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS.
“I know that the only way that I can have some measure of success is with God’s blessing, providence, direction and wisdom,” the rabbi, of Suburban Orthodox Toras Chaim in Baltimore, told JNS.
An exhibition slated for next summer at the Strong National Museum of Play in New York will focus on Jewish contributions to play, and recent publications tackle the same subject and its history.
“Will I have the opportunity on Rosh Hashanah to have a quiet Rosh Hashanah? Our enemies don’t rest,” Yechiel Leiter told JNS.
Both suspects allegedly threw bags of motor oil at synagogues in Queens on July 16.
The bureau’s data suggested that a Jewish person was nearly 225% more likely to be a target of a hate crime than a black person was in the United States last year.
The city released the statistics the day after JNS reported that from Jan. 1, 2023, until the end of this past January, Jews were the targets of 9.1% of all hate crimes in Seattle.
The state’s data “affirms what we already know as members of the Jewish community, that we are in the midst of an ongoing and unprecedented experience of being targeted as Jews,” Jeremy Burton, CEO of the local JCRC, told JNS.