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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 Russian invasion put Diana Bukman back in touch with her ex-husband in Israel. It also sent her former colleague across the world to Richmond, Va.
“The kinds of things that we were telling others to do, we need to look inside and do it ourselves,” AJC spokesman Kenneth Bandler told JNS.
On the ground, Internet access and cash are luxuries, and “life happens between sirens,” Inna Vdovichenko, JDC’s representative in Odessa, told JNS.
The Jewish singer will honor Irene Gut Opdyke, who saved 12 Jews from certain death, stowing them in a Nazi commander’s basement.
ACLU lawyer says those challenging anti-boycott laws won’t back down.
The critique comes after Washington brokered an agreement to kill a proposed council resolution condemning Israeli building plans in Judea and Samaria.
The professors at Kingsborough Community College tell JNS that the university is punishing them for complaining about campus antisemitism.
One program focused on the late rabbi’s teachings is welcoming two-dozen scholars, and an Israeli university is set to establish an institute.
“In the midst of all this wreckage and all of this ... wetness and dirt and smoke and dust, you see this glimmer of hope,” Jewish disaster-relief expert Leora Wine tells JNS.
Miguel Moratinos also told JNS two volunteers in high-profile U.N. roles who made antisemitic comments are “free to say whatever.”
The public university’s new online reporting tool for antisemitism also adopts an ‘all lives matter’ approach, critics say.
“We cannot normalize this. In order to combat antisemitism, we need everyone to be committed and unified,” Doug Emhoff said.