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Mike Wagenheim

Mike Wagenheim

Mike Wagenheim is a Washington-based correspondent for JNS, primarily covering the U.S. State Department and Congress. He is the senior U.S. correspondent at the Israel-based i24NEWS TV network.

A former U.N. official said that staffers should cite a Facebook page called “Jews against genocide,” which links to publications that support Hamas, to counter claims of antisemitism.
“It is well known in other historical examples that if you start losing your best people, you may never recover,” Joel Mokyr, a professor at Northwestern University, told JNS.
“The participation of organizations with which we may strongly disagree does not automatically preclude ours if we are deeply committed to the cause,” an AJC spokesperson told JNS.
The public university said it was doing so, as the national body finds new leadership for the local chapter. The chapter says that it isn’t part of that group.
The university has criticized the Student Workers of Columbia’s focus on advocacy rather than on employment conditions in its contract negotiations.
The director of security at Temple Israel was injured in the attack, the Reform congregation said.
“No one in Canada should ever feel unsafe because of who they are, how they pray or the community they belong to,” said Canada’s public safety minister following three shootings targeting Toronto-area synagogues.
“We really wanted to get a broad-brush stroke of meeting with people who we already know are our friends” and those who are not friends yet, Carol Ann Schwartz, Hadassah national president, told JNS.