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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 data shows a large drop in Jew-hatred in Ukraine, which the ADL suggests may be due to the country’s Jewish president.
“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.