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

Sharon Liberman Mintz, of Jewish Theological Seminary, told JNS that the 1526 Haggadah “is one of the most exciting books that I have ever had the pleasure to turn the pages of.”
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.