Author: Sara Wood

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — When the White House laid out its response to reports of spiking antisemitism after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7, it focused on one legal provision: Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination at federally funded campuses and school districts.  Working with Jewish groups, the Department […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – More than a third of Americans would be reluctant to vote for a pro-Israel politician. One fifth are uncomfortable buying products from Israel. More than 40% at least somewhat agreed that Israel intends to cause as much Palestinian suffering as possible.  But nearly all U.S. adults believe Jews have the right to […]

MIAMI ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — It’s Saturday night on a brisk Miami weekend and Ostrow Brasserie is packed with diners for its post-Shabbat dinner service. Servers clad in crisp white shirts, black ties and suspenders weave through tables of guests that vary from black hat-clad Hasidic Jews to Israelis in sequined jackets to families of sunburned French […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A campaign to protest President Joe Biden’s support of Israel by voting “Uncommitted” in the Michigan Democratic presidential primary declared victory on Tuesday night, as early returns showed the movement garnering more than 10% of the vote. Biden still won the primary overwhelmingly. But the Uncommitted movement, also called Listen to Michigan, […]

(J. Jewish News of Northern California via (JEWISH REVIEW)) — As a student at London’s Royal Academy of Music in the late 2000s, Jenni Asher lived across the street from the city’s Central Synagogue. She was not Jewish at the time, but she was feeling angst over the direction that her spiritual home, the Worldwide […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Two Jews affiliated with Montgomery County Public Schools wrote an opinion piece earlier this month with a warning: If their school district didn’t start doing a better job addressing antisemitism, it could become the target of a federal Title VI investigation. Now, based entirely on the details of their piece, the Department […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – A bill to mandate Holocaust education in Washington state’s middle and high schools died last week after debate over whether an amendment alluded to Israel’s war with Hamas. H.B. 2037, introduced by a Republican state representative, would have built on a 2019 state law that suggested but did not mandate teaching the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Los Angeles teachers union and another influential labor group have ceased campaigning for a school board candidate who promoted an antisemitic book. United Teachers Los Angeles and the L.A. County Federation of Labor both announced Friday that they were suspending campaign activities for Kahllid Al-Alim, days after a 2022 social media […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A jury found a Baltimore area rabbi liable in sexually abusing two children, awarding each of the victims $8,001. The multiyear case came about after Rabbi Shmuel Krawatsky sued three of his reported victims and others in 2018 for defamation after their accusations were published in the New York Jewish Week. All […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Earlier this week, 99 out of the 120 members of the Knesset voted against unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state. The rare moment of near-consensus in Israel’s fractious parliament was meant as a rebuke of American efforts toward Palestinian statehood. Last week, reports emerged that the Biden administration was planning a […]