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Oct. 7 families’ lawsuit says Bitcoin CEO, whom Trump pardoned, facilitated $1B in payments to Hamas and its allies

November 25, 2025November 25, 2025Sara Wood

The families of victims of Hamas’ Oct 7, 2023, attack on Israel filed a lawsuit against the cryptocurrency fund Binance and its CEO, claiming they facilitated over $1 billion in funding to the terror group and others behind the attacks. The latest lawsuit against Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao comes one month after he was pardoned […]

Bipartisan bill in Congress would create ‘Jewish Refugee Day’

November 25, 2025November 25, 2025Sara Wood

The United States would recognize Nov. 30 as “Jewish Refugee Day” under a bipartisan resolution sponsored by two Jewish members of Congress. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Florida Democrat, and Texas Republican Craig Goldman submitted the resolution on Friday, saying that the day would be known by both its English name and the Hebrew translation, Yom […]

Jewish groups at Penn sound alarm over federal lawsuit seeking information on Jewish employees

November 25, 2025November 26, 2025Sara Wood

The Trump administration is facing sharp criticism from Jewish groups at the University of Pennsylvania over its lawsuit demanding personal information on Jewish staff members. The complaint, filed last week by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Pennsylvania federal court, claims that the school “refused to comply” with a subpoena from the commission as it […]

NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch apologizes for allowing ‘turmoil’ outside synagogue

November 24, 2025November 24, 2025Sara Wood

Days after pro-Palestinian protesters shouted chants including “Globalize the Intifada” and “Death to the IDF” outside an Upper East Side synagogue, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who is Jewish, apologized to the congregation during Shabbat services. Tisch told congregants it was the police department’s duty “to ensure that people could easily enter and leave shul.” “That […]

In Denver, a Jewish day school happily copes with a surge in new students

November 24, 2025November 25, 2025Sara Wood

This article was produced as part of (JEWISH REVIEW)’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. Author Drew Kaplan is a student at Denver Jewish Day School. Denver Jewish Day School’s principal never thought he would spend so much time looking at […]

Jewish group revives push for public funding for religious schools that stalled at Supreme Court

November 21, 2025November 21, 2025Sara Wood

Months after a Supreme Court deadlock blocked an attempt by a Catholic church to create the nation’s first openly religious, publicly funded charter school, a Jewish group is now advancing a similar plan — one designed to sidestep the legal obstacles that doomed the first case. The National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation has […]

After outrage, Coast Guard says it will continue to define swastikas as hate symbols

November 21, 2025November 22, 2025Sara Wood

The Coast Guard says it will continue to bar the display of swastikas and nooses after drawing fierce criticism following the revelation of new rules that would redefine the symbols as “potentially divisive” rather than icons of hate. The regulations, first reported Thursday by the Washington Post, permitted the symbols to be displayed in Coast […]

‘Israel’s Friendsgiving’ protest at DC train station includes ‘Gaza’s spilled blood’ on the menu

November 21, 2025November 22, 2025Sara Wood

An anti-Israel guerrilla art demonstration at the main train station in Washington, D.C., on Thursday that portrayed U.S. and Israeli leaders drinking the blood of Gazans is drawing criticism for channeling the blood libel levied against Jews throughout history. “Seldom have we seen such a sickening display of full-throated antisemitism,” the Jewish Community Relations Council […]

After protest outside Manhattan synagogue, Mamdani says Israel immigration event misused ‘sacred space’

November 20, 2025November 20, 2025Sara Wood

Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s mayor-elect, has responded to a protest targeting an event promoting migration to Israel at an Upper East Side synagogue, suggesting that the event was an inappropriate use of a “sacred space.” The protest on Wednesday night, organized by a group called Palestinian Assembly for Liberation, has drawn allegations of antisemitism […]

Imam-led walkout over Jewish participant at CUNY interfaith event draws wide condemnation

November 19, 2025November 20, 2025Sara Wood

Jewish groups and government officials are condemning an incident at a recent interfaith event held on the campus of the City College of New York, at which a Muslim leader reportedly led a student walkout against the Hillel director after saying he refused to be “sitting next to a Zionist.” The incident took place last […]