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Menachem Wecker

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

The conservative group, which has been accused of being antisemitic by progressives, proves otherwise with its actions, Bethany Mandel told JNS.
“Throughout the meetings, Senator Hassan emphasized her strong support for Israel,” a spokeswoman for Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) told JNS.
The Australian state’s first Holocaust museum will stress “the importance of tolerance by raising awareness of the lessons learned from the Holocaust and other genocides.”
The State Department has declined to address the controversy around possible loan to D.C.'s Museum of the Bible.
The lack of an invitation to the Oval Office for the Israeli prime minister reflects the “bankruptcy” of the administration’s Israel policy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., told JNS.
Shlomo Danzinger, the mayor of Surfside, Fla., reportedly received a threatening email, after which he and his family went under police protection.
A Pew Research Center survey conducted in March and April showed widely-varied opinions of the Israeli prime minister.
“I hope the book will also shed light on the immigrant experience generally and the challenges associated with it,” author Kim Salzman said.
A forthcoming Princeton University course reading list includes a book that peddles “age-old antisemitic blood libels,” according to Arsen Ostrovsky. And it’s not the first time.
“This is potentially a golden age for Jewish self-awakening,” the nonprofit’s executive director and CEO told JNS.
The progressive Jewish group claims that the conference has not been criticizing conservatives in the United States and Israel sufficiently.
A spokesperson for the House Foreign Affairs Committee told JNS that the Biden administration provided no details to the committee on the suspended State Department Iran envoy.