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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.

Bergenfield police chief says assault on rabbi outside his home “was a random act of violence.”
“They are terrorist criminal prisoners, not ‘political’ prisoners,” stated Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America.
“We will never forgive nor forget the atrocities committed by the new Nazis called Hamas,” stated Ofir Akunis, the Israeli consul general in New York.
The Irish bill is “one-sided political theater” and “blatant double standard,” per the bipartisan group of members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The United Nations secretary-general appointed Vanessa Frazier special representative for children and armed conflict, a role that has placed Israel on its “list of shame” two years in a row.
Thomas Nides is glad that U.S. President Donald Trump supports Israel but thinks a “false narrative” misses the “political peril” former President Joe Biden endured to do the same.
Benjamin Landa, who operates nursing homes and has donated widely to Jewish causes, has been actively pursuing the role.
The U.S. president said that “this is not about Gaza alone. This is about long sought peace in the Middle East.”
The U.S. president said his Israel and Arab-backed deal “spares the lives” of remaining Hamas members and claimed more than 25,000 have already died.
The Democratic frontrunner for mayor, who had no speaking role, reportedly received a standing ovation.
“The future of our yeshivahs, our shuls and the well-being of our neighborhoods will all be directly affected by its outcome,” wrote Avi Greenstein, Boro Park Jewish Community Council CEO.
The former New York governor said that his decisions to lockdown yeshivas and limit prayer gatherings during the pandemic “caused pain in the Jewish community.”