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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.”
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.
“When I see wax stains, it always sends a shiver down my spine,” said Sharon Mintz, curator of Jewish art at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library.
The American Jewish Committee referred to the democratically passed law as “pushed through” the Israeli legislature.
The American Anthropological Association’s decision marks a “dark day for higher education,” said Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, AMCHA Initiative director.
“False historical information about Israel and Israelis is getting smuggled into the curriculum based on poetic license,” says a leader of the nonprofit.
The Democratic candidate for president presented himself as a strong supporter of Israel and Jews in an exclusive, nearly 40-minute interview.
The Baptist minister and activist has used slurs to refer to Jews, said “I’m sick and tired of hearing constantly about the Holocaust” and accused Israel of crimes on par with those of the Nazis.
“The first step the Biden administration must take to repair this critical relationship is to end its pursuit of any new deal with Iran,” Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) told JNS. “Only then can tensions thaw.”