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

“We feel that it actually could happen this year,” Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, executive vice president of Agudah, told JNS of the Educational Choice for Children Act.
“We have a sense, I think, of paying a long overdue debt to these men,” Shalom Lamm, the chief historian of Operation Benjamin, told attendees about Pfc. Adolph Hanf and Pvt. David Moser.
Columbia has abandoned its obligation to Jewish students “for too long,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon stated.
The Russian grandmaster signed a “rabidly antisemitic petition” in 2005, and shortly thereafter, sought to distance himself from it.
The NYPD told JNS that it had a report on file of an assault, but that there were no arrests amid an ongoing investigation.
Clay Barr began her collection of Torah “hands,” which spans two and a half centuries, to memorialize her husband 30 years ago.
The pro-Israel Democratic senator from Pennsylvania talked about Gaza and Israel on journalist Tara Palmeri’s podcast “Somebody’s Gotta Win.”
“The incoming administration is widely anticipated to be far more demanding of defendant universities to be responsive to complainants,” Lori Lowenthal Marcus, of the Deborah Project, told JNS.