Menachem Wecker

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(June 9, 2025 / JNS)In an article in the 102-year-old British journal Lancet, widely seen as one of the highest-impact medical journals, in February, Zeina Jamaluddine, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and colleagues estimated that 64,260 people had died due to traumatic injury in Gaza between Oct. 7, 2023, and June 30, 2024.

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(May 19, 2025 / JNS)John J. Miller, director of the Dow journalism program at Hillsdale College, didn’t get much of a religious education growing up, he told JNS, so he has been trying to compensate as an adult. After reading the Bible cover to cover a few years ago, Miller, a national correspondent for National Review, wrote about it for the magazine. He noted reading the passage in Mark that a house divided against itself cannot stand.

1 month ago | clevelandjewishnews.com | Menachem Wecker

John J. Miller, director of the Dow journalism program at Hillsdale College, didn’t get much of a religious education growing up, he told JNS, so he has been trying to compensate as an adult. After reading the Bible cover to cover a few years ago, Miller, a national correspondent for National Review, wrote about it for the magazine. He noted reading the passage in Mark that a house divided against itself cannot stand. “My first thought was: Why is Jesus quoting Abraham Lincoln?” Miller told JNS.

1 month ago | jns.org | Menachem Wecker

(May 12, 2025 / JNS)Christine Rosen, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, found out about the Hamas-led Oct. 7 terror attacks from the “very active” text chain of contributors to Commentary magazine, where she is a columnist and cohost of the daily podcast. “I hate to say that I wasn’t that surprised about the antisemitism. I wasn’t, because I’ve spent enough time on college campuses over the last 10 to 15 years,” Rosen told JNS.

1 month ago | jns.org | Anna Rahmanan |Menachem Wecker

(May 8, 2025 / JNS)A private tour of the former Manhattan home and studio of the Jewish artist Ben-Zion presents as the artistic version of an ice-cream headache. Spread over several floors, including a basement with a hidden trap-door staircase, the works are a dizzying array of drawings, paintings and sculptures, some that include the self-taught artist’s poetry, set among hundreds of books, artifacts and knick-knacks. Ben-Zion was born in Ukraine in 1897.