Menachem Wecker
(Credit: Toronto Police Service)
March 3, 2026, 10:23 am
Toronto police probing shots fired at synagogue as possible hate crime
"We are treating this matter with the utmost seriousness," a spokeswoman for the Toronto police told JNS.
By Menachem Wecker
The fifth hearing of the Religious Liberty Commission, Feb. 9, 2026. (Photo by JNS)
February 10, 2026, 8:36 am
Religious liberty panel hearing on Jew-hatred at times digressed to opposing Israel
Israel heavily criticized by Trump appointee Carrie Prejean Boller
By Andrew Bernard and Menachem Wecker
António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, briefs the press after the Informal Meeting on Cyprus, Geneva, March 18, 2025. (Credit: Violaine Martin/U.N. Photo)
August 15, 2025, 2:54 pm
UN adds Hamas to sexual crimes ‘blacklist,’ nearly two years after Oct. 7
The global body, long accused of antisemitism, also put the Jewish state and Russia “on notice.”
By Menachem Wecker
Crime scene tape during a Sept. 25, 2019, mass-casualty exercise at the FBI Training Academy in Quantico, Va. (Credit: FBI)
August 5, 2025, 4:10 pm
Jews targeted in 69% of religion hate crimes in 2024, per FBI data
"Our government and leaders must take these numbers seriously and enact adequate measures to protect all Americans from the scourge of hate crimes." — ADL
By Menachem Wecker
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) speaks to reporters at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on June 27, 2024. (Photo by Alex Traiman)
February 6, 2025, 2:16 pm
Trump remarks on Gaza not cause for Democrat freakout, Fetterman says
The pro-Israel Democratic senator from Pennsylvania talked about Gaza and Israel on journalist Tara Palmeri's podcast “Somebody's Gotta Win.”
By Menachem Wecker
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JANUARY 1: Law enforcement officers from multiple agencies work the scene on Bourbon Street after at least 10 people were killed when a person allegedly drove into the crowd in the early morning hours of New Year's Day on Jan. 1, 2025 in New Orleans, La. (Credit: Michael DeMocker/Getty Images via JNS)
January 1, 2025, 4:54 pm
FBI probing car ramming in New Orleans, that killed 15, as terror attack
The attacker had an ISIS flag on his truck, law enforcement officials told multiple news outlets.
By Akiva Van Koningsveld and Menachem Wecker
Larry Snelling, superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, announces terrorism and hate-crime charges against a man accused of shooting an Orthodox Jew in Chicago, Oct. 31, 2024. (Source: ABC 7 Chicago/YouTube screen capture)
November 1, 2024, 1:08 pm
Chicago Police announces hate crime, terror charges against gunman accused of shooting Orthodox Jew
"We did not secure these charges because of public pressure or because of media attention," said Larry Snelling, superintendent of the Chicago Police.
By Menachem Wecker and Andrew Bernard
Above: A visitor to the Austrian Embassy in Washington examines a photo by Nobel laureate Martin Kaplus at the opening of an exhibition of his photographs. Below: Martin Karplus (left) and Austria’s ambassador to the U.S., Hans Peter Manz, enjoy the exhibition’s opening at the Austrian Embassy. (Photos by Peter Cutts/Austrian Cultural Forum)
February 5, 2015, 5:29 pm
Nobel laureate Martin Karplus shows his photos at embassy of country he fled at 8
By Menachem Wecker
Load More