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Menachem Wecker

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

“I have been profoundly disappointed with Harvard’s inability to stand up for the Jewish community,” the pro-Israel senator said.
Rabbi Moshe Bleich of Wellesley, Mass., told JNS that the vandalism has been the only instance of Jew-hatred in his area, but he knows of a family changing its name due to antisemitism.
“In 20 years, you build really deep relationships,” says Rabbi Saul Strosberg of Congregation Sherith Israel. “That’s the reward.”
“There is no change in policy,” a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson told JNS. “Secretary Becerra misspoke and was not recognizing Palestine as an independent state.”
“In our contemporary period that’s witnessing the rise of nationalism, and its sinister cousin antisemitism, Joyce’s book continues to offer sharp critiques,” said Yeshiva University professor Seamus O’Malley.
The Sephardic rabbi, who died in 1575, is one of history’s most renowned codifiers of Jewish law and writers on Jewish mysticism.
Jozef Israëls’s works, which were shown at the Fifth Zionist Congress, appear at top Dutch museums, the Metropolitan Museum, Art Institute of Chicago and Philadelphia Museum.
As South Carolina’s Reform congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim closes in on its tricentennial year, Jewish life in the city and at the College of Charleston is bustling.
Shoshana Bryen, of The Jewish Policy Center, told JNS that she hasn’t seen the Pentagon “or anyone else” use that phrase.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena, Calif., is hearing oral arguments in “Loffman v. California Department of Education.”
“It’s a great feeling. You can get back at the trolls in a way that helps Israel,” Esther Panitch, a Georgia state representative, told JNS.
“There’s political capital to be made, and political cost to be avoided, by litigating,” Marc Stern, of the American Jewish Committee, told JNS. “It’s like Kabuki theater.”