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

“I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down,” wrote the 81-year-old U.S. president.
“We acknowledge that there was a data error in our recent listing,” a State Department spokesperson told JNS.
Although Israel has said that 14,000 to 16,000 Gazan noncombatants had been killed as of mid-May, the U.S. government said that the Jewish state killed “tens of thousands” through April.
“Given the ideological resistance to theater by some Jewish and Christian authorities, it is all the more striking when they appropriate its forms,” author Courtney Friesen told JNS.
“I have been profoundly disappointed with Harvard’s inability to stand up for the Jewish community,” the pro-Israel senator said.
Rabbi Moshe Bleich of Wellesley, Mass., told JNS that the vandalism has been the only instance of Jew-hatred in his area, but he knows of a family changing its name due to antisemitism.
“In 20 years, you build really deep relationships,” says Rabbi Saul Strosberg of Congregation Sherith Israel. “That’s the reward.”
“There is no change in policy,” a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson told JNS. “Secretary Becerra misspoke and was not recognizing Palestine as an independent state.”