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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.”
“I believe there is always more we can do. We just need the time and resources to do it,” Lori Shepherd, executive director of Tucson’s Holocaust center, told JNS.
Charles Goldberg also finds the therapeutic-musical mix a religious experience.
“Good art can definitely happen to bad people,” Karen Swallow Prior of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary tells JNS.
Eagle-eyed Instagram users also noticed a Che Guevara portrait.
Stepan Bandera was no hero, says Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The American Bar Association, a law-school accreditor, voted to pass on the IHRA definition.
An exhibition in Philadelphia in 2015 focused on the art of the books’ Jewish writer and illustrator Bernard Waber.
There is a whole section of the Talmud devoted to that sort of thing.