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Menachem Wecker

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

“An ISIS flag was located in the vehicle, and the FBI is working to determine the subject’s potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations,” the bureau stated.
JNS has reported that the global body has often neglected Jewish holidays while acknowledging those of other faiths.
“Israel will not cower to terror,” the Israeli mission to the United Nations in Manhattan stated. “We will not be silent in the face of hate and violence.”
“As we gather here tonight, extensive efforts are being made to bring about a new hostage deal,” said Michael Herzog, the Israeli envoy in Washington.
“We hope to normalize this conversation so that it is no longer ‘toxic’ for us to discuss antisemitism within our field,” Dr. Daniella Schwartz, of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, told JNS.
It would be “extremely surprising” if the best historical source “forgot or did not know who were the Jewish leaders of this war which devastated the area,” writes Haggai Olshanetsky, a University of Warsaw historian and archeologist.
Victoria Coates told JNS of Israeli-Saudi normalization, “I bet dollars to doughnuts that President Trump will get that done.”
“There is no evidence of foul play at this time,” the Cook County Sheriff’s Office told JNS of the death of 22-year-old Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi.
“Reminder: There is no peace agreement,” wrote Gerald Steinberg, of NGO Monitor. “The goal of the Tehran regime and its proxy terror armies (in this case, Hezbollah) remains the destruction of Israel.”
“Shabbat is who we are,” Warren Goldstein, the chief rabbi of South Africa who founded the project, told JNS.
“Prime Minister Rabin taught us all the importance of living a life of values, of exercising courage and of eternally yearning for peace,” Ariella Rada, a spokeswoman for the consulate, told JNS.
Michael Chelst told JNS that his kosher restaurant, Char Bar, was the only one attacked on the street, and the vandal transported bricks from another area to break his windows.