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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.

Sigurd Neubauer appeared in media around the world, giving expert analysis of relations between Israel and its neighbors in the Persian Gulf. Now, it’s time for something completely different.
The Association of Gulf Jewish Communities is shifting its focus away from an influx of Israeli tourists and towards the more permanent future of a Jewish presence in the Gulf region.
In his U.S. debut, Ra’am Party leader Mansour Abbas says he’d rather focus on the future than the past, and on what’s useful rather than what’s “right.”
Former U.S. State Department Spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus, who developed her Jewish identity in the Arab Gulf, announced her candidacy this week for an open, Republican-friendly congressional seat in Tennessee.
Two members of the Partnership for Peace Fund Advisory Board speak to JNS about the challenges and opportunities in funding new joint Israeli-Palestinian initiatives through a highly touted congressional program.
The USIEA isn’t as well-known as AIPAC and the alphabet soup of Israel-supporting entities in America, but it has a history of punching above its weight.
The Pulitzer-prize winning author says his Holocaust memoir’s raw telling, seen by a Tennessee school board as objectionable, was crucial to his story’s authenticity and believability.
“The State of Israel is as progressive as it gets. Some of what the progressive members of the party fight for is actually occurring in Israel. We need to make sure those who have a tainted, tarnished, misinformed view understand the reality,” said Rep. Shontel Brown (D-Ohio), who serves on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
Ellen Germain sits one-on-one to talk about the growing global presence of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and her office’s work when “Never Again” stops trending.
Negotiations on the release of several American hostages held by Tehran continue on a separate track, and “it’s hard to imagine a return to the JCPOA without the release of those hostages.”
“I feel I must do something to honor and continue the Jewish life of my ancestors, and to speak up against the anti-Semitism that nearly extinguished us,” said activist Elisha Wiesel, the only child of Holocaust survivors Marion and the late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a virtual policy session with an Atlanta synagogue on Monday night, where tensions regarding a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine’s borders were front and center.