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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 United States must continue sending a strong message that antisemitism has no place in our world,” a bipartisan group of 62 congressmen wrote.
Trump’s pick for ambassador to Israel is expected to meet some Democratic resistance, but will pass through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, according to a source close to him.
“Any discussion of humanitarian suffering that does not begin with the release of the hostages is not an honest discussion,” said Israel’s deputy ambassador to the U.N. Jonathan Miller.
The 53-year-old, who left Hamas captivity severely emaciated, has met this month with U.S. President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The goal is to cultivate “an awareness that allows them to feel secure in any situation,” Kerri Reifel, SCN’s director of campus safety and security, told JNS.
“I have patients that are saying that they don’t want to be Jewish anymore, because everybody hates them,” Miri Bar-Halpern, a psychologist, told JNS.
“The secretary-general has spoken out repeatedly at the horrors we have seen in this conflict,” a spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general told JNS.
A record number of groups are running, including some with “a professional-style campaign with influencers, campaign managers, coordinators and organizers,” said Herbert Block, of the American Zionist Movement.