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Menachem Wecker

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

“It is a call to conscience,” said Robert Nicholson, head of the Philos Project. “If Franciscan can do this, why can’t Notre Dame or Yale?”
A new Jewish Federations of North America poll asked to what extent respondents think certain groups are discriminated against today.
New York woman assaulted. Harvard to launch antisemitism training. First person arrested under Melbourne Nazi salute ban.
Shots fired at Montreal Jewish schools. A rabbi kicked in Paris. Fighting outside a Holocaust film screening in Los Angeles.
The project, announced on the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of broken glass,” is slated to debut in 2024.
“We’re seeing an immense amount of people wanting to connect, wanting to double down and leaning into their Jewish identity and practice,” Rabbi Motti Seligson, a spokesman for Chabad, told JNS.
First, there was a goal of 100 trucks a day. After 105 trucks went through the Rafah crossing on Nov. 4, Blinken said in Bagdad that number was “grossly insufficient.”
Police found a swastika drawn on her door • Lyon Mayor Grégory Doucet condemnts “unspeakable” surge of violence.
“Our government is decisively combatting the rise of antisemitism and hate in all its forms,” said Stephen Lecce, Ontario’s education minister.
The U.S. secretaries of state and defense were interrupted frequently by protesters as they testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.
“The RJC was created for a moment like this—to ensure that America has Israel’s back to do whatever it takes to wipe Hamas off the face of the earth,” said Norm Coleman, board chair of the Republican Jewish Coalition.