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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.

The launch event, “NY + Israel = Safer, Smarter Cities,” will help facilitate Israeli companies in New York that thrived during the COVID years and now seek to contribute more to the city’s rebound.
“The Abraham Accords, without question, are ushering in new era. We’ve already a shift in the vision for Middle East nations, a shift in thinking as to what are the possibilities for peace, a shift in actions seen at the people-to-people level, seen in travel, in energy projects, everywhere,” said Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.).
“That is something that nobody has talked about or tracked before—that media could actually make a difference in making the world a safer place,” said Daniel Pomerantz, CEO of HonestReporting.
A pro-Israel organization seeks to educate those at the state and local levels in an attempt not only to fend off BDS in middle and high schools, but to build cultural bridges.
Avi Zinger says Ben & Jerry’s and its parent company, Unilever, forced him into an impossible choice: break the law or lose his license. He’s now asking a U.S. court to make things right.
The U.N. General Assembly resolution saw a region with divergent interests take a unified, though often pressurized, stance on the conflict.
Israel’s ambassador offers his Ukrainian counterpart solidarity, but will likely remain publicly silent due to sensitivities in dealing with Russia.
With a presence at nearly 200 schools, 1,000 members and close to 400 alumni, Students Supporting Israel is now the largest registered pro-Israel movement on college campuses.
In a Brooklyn neighborhood known for its ex-Soviet population, Jewish Ukrainians say they don’t fear in particular for the country’s Jewish population, instead viewing the conflict as a national struggle.
As the international community focuses on the Ukraine-Russia crisis in the U.N. General Assembly, U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Mills is critical of the diplomatic time and energy that monthly meetings on the Israeli-Palestinian file take up at the Security Council.
Julie Platt talks about her priorities, challenges and passions as she prepares to steer one of U.S. Jewry’s signature organizations: the Jewish Federations of North America.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper met with federal law-enforcement officials to suggest coordinating an office to analyze anti-Semitism and train federal agents to understand the nature of the threat.