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

“The ancient sources implying Queen Zenobia converted to Judaism are possibly accurate,” Haggai Olshanetsky, of University of Warsaw, told JNS.
Ammaad Akhtar, 33, is accused of trying to give money, guns and ammunition to someone he thought was part of the terror group, and of making antisemitic threats.
“Rather than piercing the fog, the authors have produced more fog by penning a paper rife with anti-Israel opinion,” Dr. Joel Zivot, of Emory University, told JNS. “This is classic data torturing.”
“I learned a ton about Jewish faith and traditions as well as Israel from these shows, during the research and preparation, as well as the recordings,” the Hillsdale professor and writer told JNS.
Guy Benson, Christine Rosen and Christopher Rufo told JNS what it’s been like to defend Jews on the air and shared advice for the Jewish state.
“It’s too soon to know whether he just had a brief moment or the beginning of a longer moment,” the curator and scholar Ori Soltes told JNS.
Rabbi Joshua Stanton of the Jewish Federation told JNS that the new pope’s election fills him with both hope and anxiety.
“Judge Solomson enjoys studying Talmud, playing tennis and spending time at the beach with his family,” according to his official bio.