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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 Jewish museum that has permitted [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] to speak during her campaign for election is stating falsehoods when it says [Ron] DeSantis can’t speak because ‘we don’t do politics,’ ” said Elliott Abrams, chairman of the Tikvah Fund.
Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, the Israeli capital’s “unofficial foreign minister,” is a natural fit for the global leadership cohort, says the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.
An online portal started accepting applications, where individual Americans, as well as private and public organizations, can apply to financially sponsor a Ukrainian for travel from Europe as part of a new U.S. program launched by the Biden administration.
A group of NGOs has partnered to submit millions of pieces of evidence in support of Israel, countering the preconceived narrative of the United Nations so-called Commission of Inquiry.
“Bereavement has accompanied me from the dawn of my childhood, and with it, the memory of my father that I did not have the privilege of knowing,” said Perry Hiiman to 1,000 people commemorating Israel’s day of remembrance on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
“The world has changed, as it has for us as well, both in terms of logistics and from a health perspective. We still have smaller groups than pre-COVID,” said Noa Bauer, vice president of global marketing.
The annual Simon Wiesenthal Center Digital Terrorism Report notes troubling inaction among major gaming, networking and video companies.
The United Nations hosts Menachem Rosensaft for an event centered on his book of poetry, reflective of a life born in the ashes of the Shoah.
“The U.N. must change with the times and update its anachronistic regulations to permit the presentation of photos and video footage. Today, a picture or a video, especially from a reliable source, is worth a million words,” said Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan.
Right-wing Knesset members joined Israelis from across the country in a march to the settlement evacuated in 2005.
“We understand why some of our friends aren’t here today, though it is a little disappointing,” said Shmuel Cohen of Jerusalem. “There is no reason it needs to be this way. What do the Palestinians who caused this gain from this? This is their holy month, and they use Al-Aqsa this way?”
As the Jewish Federations of North America’s National Young Leadership Cabinet approaches its 60th year, its alumni hold some of the most critical positions in the United States.