Menachem Wecker

1 month ago | clevelandjewishnews.com | Menachem Wecker

Some 250 Orthodox Jews from 45 states gathered on April 2 to lobby members of the Senate and the House, or their staffs, in 88 congressional offices as part of Agudath Israel of America’s Mission to Washington. The nonprofit’s program focused on the Educational Choice for Children Act, which would provide $10 billion in annual tax credits that parents could use to pay for private school.

1 month ago | jns.org | Andrew Bernard |Menachem Wecker

(April 8, 2025 / JNS)Some 100 people, ranging in age from about 8 to 102, huddled for warmth as they braved 40-degree temperatures on a damp day at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday to watch, as speaker after speaker put it, Pfc. Adolph Hanf and Pvt. David Moser “come home.”Neither of the Jewish soldiers, who served in World War I and who have been dead for more than 100 years, underwent a geographic relocation.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Marisa Charpentier |Menachem Wecker |Hannah McGivern |Ben Luke

When Sigmund Freud wrote his essay “The Uncanny” a century ago, he brought the strange psychological phenomenon into the mainstream. The word is often used to describe the uneasiness one feels when encountering something familiar yet foreign—like a doll that looks a little too human or a painting that feels hauntingly real. But a new exhibition at Washington, DC's National Museum of Women in the Arts asks visitors to consider another meaning.

2 months ago | thejc.com | Menachem Wecker

Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster famed for his part in the “game of the century”, died in Moscow on Thursday aged 88, the International Chess Federation has confirmed. The former world number two was on the losing end of the legendary 1972 World Championship final, which saw American Bobby Fischer claim the title in a match billed as a Cold War showdown.

2 months ago | thejc.com | Vita Fellig |Menachem Wecker

A group of pro-Palestinian protestors occupied a building at a prestigious university to demand an “amnesty” for two expelled student activists. The pair were kicked out after disrupting a lecture on modern Israeli history at Columbia University and were members of the Apartheid Divest activist group.