Menachem Wecker, Author at J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/author/menachem-wecker/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Wed, 13 Aug 2025 06:27:19 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 6446428 Australia’s silence on Jew-hatred should’ve drawn more attention right after Oct 7, former official says https://www.jwire.com.au/australias-silence-on-jew-hatred-shouldve-drawn-more-attention-right-after-oct-7-former-official-says/ https://www.jwire.com.au/australias-silence-on-jew-hatred-shouldve-drawn-more-attention-right-after-oct-7-former-official-says/#respond Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:51:49 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=171970 In the weeks after Oct. 7, the Biden administration led an international effort that produced a statement condemning Jew-hatred that nearly three dozen countries signed. The U.S. State Department’s office of the special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism asked Australia to sign on, but Canberra declined, according to a former senior State Department official. […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/australias-silence-on-jew-hatred-shouldve-drawn-more-attention-right-after-oct-7-former-official-says/feed/ 0 171970 No motive yet in murder of Detroit synagogue leader https://www.jwire.com.au/no-motive-yet-in-murder-of-detroit-synagogue-leader/ https://www.jwire.com.au/no-motive-yet-in-murder-of-detroit-synagogue-leader/#respond Sun, 22 Oct 2023 07:35:06 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=151885 Detroit police found Samantha Woll, 40, president of the egalitarian Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, dead outside her home on Saturday morning. A trail of blood leading back to her home indicated to the police that she was stabbed multiple times there, the Detroit Free Press reported. “My heart aches that we have lost someone so […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/no-motive-yet-in-murder-of-detroit-synagogue-leader/feed/ 0 151885 Biden calls retiring Jesse Jackson, with long history of Jew-hatred, ‘man of God and of the people’ https://www.jwire.com.au/biden-calls-retiring-jesse-jackson-with-long-history-of-jew-hatred-man-of-god-and-of-the-people/ https://www.jwire.com.au/biden-calls-retiring-jesse-jackson-with-long-history-of-jew-hatred-man-of-god-and-of-the-people/#comments Mon, 17 Jul 2023 08:03:18 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=149175 History will remember Jesse Jackson as “a man of God and of the people,” who is “determined, strategic and unafraid of the work to redeem the soul of our nation,” U.S. President Biden stated on July 16. In the White House announcement, which marked the 81-year-old Baptist minister and activist’s retirement, Biden invoked a quote […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/biden-calls-retiring-jesse-jackson-with-long-history-of-jew-hatred-man-of-god-and-of-the-people/feed/ 1 149175 ‘I bought the Sassoon Codex for the Jewish people, not for me’ https://www.jwire.com.au/i-bought-the-sassoon-codex-for-the-jewish-people-not-for-me/ https://www.jwire.com.au/i-bought-the-sassoon-codex-for-the-jewish-people-not-for-me/#comments Wed, 07 Jun 2023 07:31:30 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=148055 Alfred Moses, the former U.S. ambassador to Romania bought the most expensive book ever sold … and then donated it to a Jewish museum in Tel Aviv. The Israelites famously declared in the book of Exodus at Mount Sinai, “We will do, and then we will hear.” Rabbinic tradition has taken that to mean that […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/i-bought-the-sassoon-codex-for-the-jewish-people-not-for-me/feed/ 1 148055 Tel Aviv ANU–Museum of the Jewish People buys Codex Sassoon for $33.5 million https://www.jwire.com.au/tel-aviv-anu-museum-of-the-jewish-people-buys-codex-sassoon-for-33-5-million/ https://www.jwire.com.au/tel-aviv-anu-museum-of-the-jewish-people-buys-codex-sassoon-for-33-5-million/#respond Thu, 18 May 2023 10:00:47 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=147449 First, there was the possibility that Renaissance man par excellence Leonardo da Vinci was Jewish. Now, the oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible, Codex Sassoon, which dates to around the year 900, beat da Vinci’s Codex Leicester as the most expensive book ever sold at auction. Business magnate Bill Gates bought the latter for $30.8 million in […]

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