Author: Sara Wood

Jewish groups were among those criticizing President Donald Trump and accusing him of using genocidal rhetoric on Tuesday after Trump posted online that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” wrote Trump in a post […]

A national nonprofit that supports interfaith Jewish families has slashed its workforce after facing an unanticipated budget shortfall. 18Doors announced on March 31 that it had “significantly” reduced its staff due to budget constraints. In fact, about two-thirds of the staff were laid off the week before the announcement, board member Laurie Beijen told the […]

After nearly two decades of legal sparring, a town on Long Island has been ordered to pay a local Chabad center $19 million, settling claims that officials unlawfully blocked the construction of a synagogue on its rabbi’s property. Rabbi Aaron Konikov and Lubavitch of Old Westbury sued the Village of Old Westbury in 2008, after […]

A rabbi, a Jewish mother who invokes her family’s Holocaust history, and a Jewish teenager are among seven Oklahoma residents who have asked a federal court to let them join the fight against a proposed Jewish public charter school in their state. The group filed a motion Wednesday in federal court in Oklahoma City seeking […]

The president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week, months after the State Department identified him as a threat to the U.S. foreign policy interest of combating antisemitism. Salah Sarsour, 53, the president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and a Palestinian legal permanent resident of the United […]

When readers of the Atlanta Jewish Times opened their Passover edition last week, they saw something surprising: a fluffy challah. The leavened bread, forbidden for Jews to consume during the holiday, appeared in an ad placed by Nathalie Kanani, a candidate for state Senate in a Metro Atlanta district. “Have a blessed Passover,” the ad […]

A Connecticut Catholic school has issued punishments in connection with a series of antisemitic social media posts about the school’s hockey rivals last month, The New York Times reported. Posts associated with fans of Fairfield College Preparatory School disparaged the New Canaan Rams ahead of their March 23 game, which the Rams won, according to […]

The influencer Myron Gaines visited Ohio University last Thursday as part of a national campus tour, performing a Nazi salute and claiming that the Holocaust’s death toll had been purposefully distorted. Seated at a table on the campus of Ohio University wearing a hoodie that read “Let Em Cook – Oy Vey,” a meme mocking […]

At Temple Israel in suburban Detroit, where congregants are still reeling from last month’s attack in which a man drove a vehicle filled with explosives into the building, a new Passover tradition is taking shape. “This Passover, we’re adding something new to our Seder plates: a single Lego block,” Temple Israel wrote in a post […]

President Donald Trump will address the nation “to provide an important update on Iran” on Wednesday night, his press secretary announced late Tuesday. The speech comes one month into the joint U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, which has caused death and destruction across the Middle East as well as global economic shocks including a sharp rise […]