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Menachem Wecker

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

“These cassettes, now recognized on a global scale, hold historical, cultural and social importance,” said Jewish Museum Berlin curator Tamar Lewinsky.
Twelve days after saying the rabbi’s wife and two daughters were killed in a “shootout,” the CNN anchor said on the air that she “misspoke.”
The Jewish-born actress, who had a “truly uncanny” grasp of mass culture, was the Madonna or Lady Gaga of her day, historian Carol Ockman told JNS.
Codex Sassoon
Tel Aviv ANU–Museum of the Jewish People buys Codex Sassoon for $38.1 million
The near-complete Hebrew Bible edged out a volume by Leonardo da Vinci as the most expensive sold at auction ever.
“You gotta get your hands dirty,” he told JNS. “Complaining about what’s going on with the attacks in Israel is not the same thing as going there and helping.”
Nearly 100 groups are pushing the American Anthropological Association to reject a resolution calling for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.
Yeshiva and Touro universities, Mount Sinai and Albert Einstein, however, slipped in quite a few overall and specialty categories.
Of a “Nakba” event last year, Jo Giudice, director of the Dallas Public Library, told JNS: “In our eagerness to be inclusive, we did not give the exhibit the scrutiny we should have.”
“It is hard not to read Caravaggio’s tumultuous life and tendency to solve problems with a sword into this extraordinary picture,” curator Rachel McGarry told JNS.
The texts inform about Jewish women philanthropists, Roman roads and the impact of the Bar Kokhba War, says professor Michael Satlow, who directs the project.
Amid a lecture tour at U.S. law schools, the former Knesset member discusses attempts to censor her and her message for the next generation of attorneys.
In mid-April, Meltzer and his wife, Amy, and Jaime and Andrew Schwartzberg jointly committed a multimillion-dollar gift to the university.