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Menachem Wecker

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

The Christians United for Israel founder told JNS that his first Western Wall visit in 1978 was a “turning point,” setting him on a path to uniting Jews and Christians.
Brandeis improved its MBA rankings, but it and Touro University California dropped elsewhere, while Yeshiva University didn’t even meet the threshold to be ranked.
Bookshelves were often the only Jewish signs in those homes, and even hateful books were useful, according to Reed College professor Marat Grinberg.
“The demographics are changing,” said Irving Lebovics, co-chairman of the Agudah-affiliated Am Echad. “I’m not even sure who the federation represents today.”
“There is zero debate that two temples stood in that place in scholarly literature,” said New York University professor Lawrence Schiffman. “Mohammed’s ascent ‘happens’ from there only because it is the Temple site.”
All members of Congress are invited to pre-record remarks; Joel Griffith of Heritage says “this unjustly allows her to rehabilitate her image.”
The Roman military may have made dispensations on Shabbat as well.
Two Jewish, retired naval leaders tell some memorable stories of holiday seders at sea.
Ahead of a lecture commemorating the 80th anniversary of the uprising, Mazur told JNS that “there is plenty of ignorance” about the uprising and its context.
“You get this sort of pious talk coming out of these characters, but they are as anti-democratic as you could possibly imagine,” legal scholar Richard Epstein said of the White House.
“With this statement, the State Department has effectively given Palestinian groups a green light to attack Israel,” Jonathan Schanzer, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told JNS.
Even as they bring contemporary politics into the story, museums tend to overlook the antisemitism that divided Impressionists over the Dreyfus Affair in the late 19th century.