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

Lonnie Nasatir, president of the Jewish United Fund, told JNS that the Chicago Police Department has been “nothing but very attentive.”
“We’ve had periods before where the Israelis have increased what they’re doing only to see it fall back,” the U.S. secretary of state said.
“In a media-soaked world, it’s hard to be behind. But that regular disconnect keeps me sane,” the pollster and strategist Mark Mellman told JNS.
Matt Goldish, of Ohio State, told JNS that the report may create a “perfect storm of Jew-hatred” if Columbus is compared with Israel.
“One of our biggest challenges today is to make it very clear that anti-Zionism is antisemitism,” Daniel S. Mariaschin told JNS in an extended interview.
The eighth-century Afghan Liturgical Quire “pushes the history of the Jewish book back approximately 200 years,” the scholar Gary Rendsburg told JNS.
“Imagine releasing two statements calling for a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon as if the government of Lebanon has any agency and sovereignty,” wrote Jason Brodsky, of United Against Nuclear Iran.
A stamp “can travel from Alaska to the U.S. Virgin Islands, or Maine to Guam,” Michael Gordon, the Postal Service’s government liaison director, told JNS. “Much like Chanukah, it can be a family, unifying event.”