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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 House Appropriations Subcommittee on State Department and Foreign Operations is recommending a $1 million increase; a bipartisan group had asked for $500,000 months ago.
The shooter, Rashid Baz, died in jail last year. He killed Ari Halberstam and fired on 14 other yeshivah students.
“Antisemitism has historically been a barometer for social unrest, and today, it is indicative of the wider challenges facing France,” two American Jewish Committee leaders in France told JNS.
If a Jews did occasionally fight, they would’ve probably opted to take on animals rather than people, according to a new scholarly article.
“The Tel Aviv Museum is open to criticism and sensitive to public opinion and therefore decided not to hold the conference,” Tania Coen-Uzzielli, director of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, told JNS.
The apology came nearly a week after a Brandeis University ad in the “New York Times” drew criticism for attacking Orthodox Judaism.
The newly retired dancer founded the American-Israeli Ballet Association.
“In this ad, ‘Orthodox’ clearly means rigid, antiquated, monolithic and unevolving. Since Orthodox Jews would reject these adjectives in their self-definition, this line is problematic,” said scholar Malka Simkovich.