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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 Catskill Mountains festival served as an appetizer for a planned museum to document the history of the Jewish vacation destination.
“Let me be clear: There is no ‘right of return,’” the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations said. “You all know this.”
The opening bell at the Big Board served as a tribute to technology coming front the Jewish state, as well as a warning of troubles back home.
“It’s really important that the sides get together, that they talk, and that discussion should not be over,” said Terry Wolff, a senior National Security Council official.
“This is not a lost arena,” the Israel president said of maintaining good relations with Democrats in Congress.
During their meeting in Washington, the Israeli president and U.S. vice president also discussed the Iran threat, the Abraham Accords and the Judea and Samaria security situation.
Herzog took the topic of Israel’s judicial reforms and spun the “heated debate” in Israel as “a virtue and a tribute to the greatness of Israeli democracy,” pledging that he would “seek to find amicable consensus on the issue,”
At the CUFI Summit in Washington, the former governor and ambassador said that the president, the United Nations and congressional Democrats fail on Israel and American Jewish issues.
As many as 1,200 summit attendees will lobby Congress to pass anti-BDS and Iran sanctions legislation.
The event, which drew thousands, featured significant technology, despite the community’s reputation for having a strained relationship with modernity.
“We’re telling lots of different stories. Some of them will be familiar to our visitors, and many will not be,” said the museum’s curator.
With the dismissal of a challenge to Texas’ anti-BDS law, the BDS movement doesn’t appear to have any judicial cards left to play.