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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.

“I would wager that Jews are overrepresented as NRA members versus our percentage of the population,” Ed Friedman, who edits the NRA’s “Shooting Illustrated magazine,” told JNS.
Four senators wrote to the U.S. Secretary of State that Liran Tancman has a “failed record of privatizing traditional humanitarian functions.”
The legislation would make sure that those who “exploit America’s generosity” can’t “hide behind the citizenship we gave them,” said Rep. Riley Moore, of West Virginia.
Danny Danon, the Israeli envoy to the global body, called the Iranian blockade of the strait “economic terrorism.”
Twenty honorees, including Julian Edelman, Omri Casspi and Bruce Pearl, will be inducted June 29 in Israel, highlighting global Jewish achievement across sports.
With Israeli elections set for this fall, “we don’t want to act politically” in halting the agreement governing the EU-Israel relationship, Dubravka Šuica tells JNS.
The department is “targeting regime elites like the Shamkhani family that attempt to profit at the expense of the Iranian people,” said Scott Bessent, U.S. treasury secretary.
The measure, which aims to correct a “deliberate attempt to erase the Jewish identity of Judea and Samaria,” passed both houses comfortably.
“We’re suing to keep these assets in Cincinnati where they belong,” the state prosecutor’s office said of the school’s shuttering Cincinnati campus.
“The Jewish people have proven that this time, we have the ability to defend ourselves and repel any danger,” Ofir Akunis, the Israeli consul general in New York, stated.
“There is no reason the two neighbors should not be talking,” a State Department official said, of Israel and Lebanon.
“The military at large is not systemically antisemitic,” but there is “definitely a lack of concern for religious needs,” said Rabbi Elie Estrin of the Aleph Institute.