Mike Wagenheim
Heights Jewish Center Synagogue in University Heights, Ohio. Credit: Ed Wittenberg via Cleveland Jewish News.
August 17, 2026, 9:35 pm
SCOOP: Israeli consulate planning on pop-up consular services in Cleveland, diplomatic source tells JNS
The trial stop in the Buckeye State would help those who require consular help but don’t want to or can’t travel to New York.
By Mike Wagenheim
Screenshot of New York Magazine
August 14, 2026, 10:00 pm
‘New York Magazine’ faces backlash over edition critics say marginalizes Jewish, Israeli identities
The publication “couldn’t find a way to celebrate one part of the city without also denigrating and erasing another,” a former New York Magazine editor wrote.
By Mike Wagenheim
Faculty for Justice in Palestine at the Gaza solidarity encampment, one day before violent riots erupted at the University of California, Los Angeles, April 29, 2024. (Credit: Noopur28 via Wikimedia Commons)
May 26, 2026, 7:21 pm
Trump admin files second lawsuit against UCLA for ‘deliberate indifference’ to Jew-hatred
The public university “inexplicably took no serious action whatsoever” as “Jewish and Israeli students risked physical assault” during the 2024 anti-Israel campus protests.
By Mike Wagenheim
Two people holding up U.S. passports (Credit: Spencer Davis/Pexels)
March 16, 2026, 2:27 pm
American Jewish Committee, CAIR join orgs in backing birthright citizenship
“The participation of organizations with which we may strongly disagree does not automatically preclude ours if we are deeply committed to the cause.” — AJC spokesperson
By Mike Wagenheim
Temple Israel (Photo courtesy of Google Maps)
March 12, 2026, 7:21 pm
Suspect dead after car crash, shooting at Detroit-area Reform temple
The director of security at Temple Israel was injured in the attack, the Reform congregation said.
By JNS Staff and Mike Wagenheim
Paraguayan Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano (left) and Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar in Jerusalem on Feb. 8, 2026. (Credit: GPO)
March 5, 2026, 10:48 am
Paraguay is first to file brief in support of Israel in South African case before UN court
Paraguay said it wasn’t picking sides in the case South Africa is bringing against the Jewish state but argued that the court must not expand the definition of “genocide.”
By Mike Wagenheim
Skyline view of downtown San Francisco. (Credit: Frank Schulenburg via Wikimedia Commons)
February 26, 2026, 4:25 pm
Protester shouts ‘tax the Jews’ at San Francisco event announcing plan to increase housing, jobs
The Democratic Socialists of America, who organized the protest at a press conference with the city’s Jewish mayor, claim the woman is not part of their organization.
By Mike Wagenheim
Rev. Jesse Jackson at the United Nations for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, at the U.N. Office at Geneva, on March 21, 2012. (Credit: U.S. Mission to the United Nations in G (eneva/Eric Bridiers)
February 17, 2026, 3:49 pm
Jesse Jackson, American civil-rights leader and activist, dies at 84
“Jesse was a force of nature like few others before him,” U.S. President Donald Trump wrote.
By Mike Wagenheim
Francesca Albanese, U.N. Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and Democratic Party Parliament member Arturo Scotto attend a press conference titled “Genocide in Gaza: A Collective Crime” in the press room of the Chamber of Deputies in Rome on Feb. 3, 2026. (Photo by Simona Granati/Corbis via Getty Images, via JNS)
February 13, 2026, 1:08 pm
Austria, Germany, Italy join France in calling for UN to oust Albanese
The German foreign minister said the special rapporteur for the Palestinians has become “untenable in her position.”
By Mike Wagenheim
Mahmoud Khalil, former Columbia University graduate student known for his role in the 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian protests, leads a Pro-Palestinian "March for Humanity" against the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in New York City, on Aug. 16, 2025. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)
January 23, 2026, 11:16 am
Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to Algeria, DHS official says
“You are a guest in this country. Act like it,” Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of homeland security for public affairs, told NewsNation.
By Mike Wagenheim
Reem Alsalem, U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, on Oct. 10, 2025. (Credit: Manuel Elías/U.N. Photo)
November 17, 2025, 1:47 pm
‘Stain’ on UN that its adviser ‘denies Hamas rape,’ Israeli envoy says
Special rapporteur Reem Alsalem’s claims are “questionable at best,” the Dinah Project said.
By Mike Wagenheim
Hasan Izadi, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps official in Iran who a U.S. official says planned to assassinate the Israeli ambassador to Mexico in 2024 and 2025, shakes hands with Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in a photo which the Iranian embassy in Caracas posted on May 24, 2024. (Source: Screen capture of Iranian embassy in Caracas Instagram post, via JNS)
November 7, 2025, 2:08 pm
Iran planned to kill Israeli envoy to Mexico this year
“This is just the latest in a long history of Iran’s global lethal targeting of diplomats, journalists, dissidents and anyone who disagrees with them,” a U.S. official said.
By Mike Wagenheim
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro surveys the damage after an arson attack at the governor's mansion in Harrisburg, Pa., on April 13, 2025. (Credit: Commonwealth Media Services/Commonwealth of Pennsylvania)
October 16, 2025, 11:08 am
Man who set Jewish governor’s home on fire gets 25 to 50 years
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he has “struggled to make sense” of the Molotov cocktail and sledgehammer attack on his residence.
By Mike Wagenheim
Mahmoud Khalil during a meeting with Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) at the congressman's office in Washington, D.C., July 22, 2025. (Credit: Office of Representative Jim McGovern via Wikimedia Commons)
September 18, 2025, 12:29 pm
Columbia’s pro-Hamas protest organizer to be deported, judge rules
An immigration judge agreed with the Trump administration that Mahmoud Khalil's failure to include pertinent information on his green card application is grounds for revocation.
By Mike Wagenheim
IDF soldiers prepare tanks on Aug. 22, 2025 on the Israel-Gaza border. (Photo by Elke Scholiers/Getty Images, via JNS)
August 25, 2025, 12:16 pm
Author of disputed Gaza famine report has lengthy history of anti-Israel statements
Andrew J. Seal wrote of “the destruction of the state of Palestine by Jewish insurgents"
By Mike Wagenheim
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