Author: Sara Wood

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – A student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was arrested by university police Friday after punching a Jewish student and spitting on an Israeli flag during a vigil for hostages. According to both the school’s administration and the UMass Hillel, the attack occurred at a solidarity walk organized by the Hillel, which […]

Like many Jews, I am watching with a mixture of horror and grave concern as college campuses around the United States convulse with anti-Israel demonstrations and, in many cases, overt antisemitism and vocal support for terrorism. More, as a university president, I have been especially dismayed by the failure of college and university leaders to […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — She thought she was attacking an “Israel school” on behalf of “her people back in Palestine.” Instead an Indiana woman backed her car into a building being used by a group that uses Jewish symbols while often engaging in antisemitic harassment. That’s according to local news reports and Jewish leaders in Indianapolis, […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — For the second time this year, the White House aimed fire at a Fox News Channel host for casting doubt on remembrance of the Holocaust. On his Westwood One radio show on Wednesday, Fox News host Mark Levin went after CNN personalities for their questions about how careful Israel was in […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The U.S. House of Representatives approved $14 billion in emergency assistance for Israel but tied it to a cut in funding to the Internal Revenue Service, an unprecedented setting of conditions on aid to Israel that is expected to doom the bill. The bill passed 226-196 on Thursday with all but […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — As Elizabeth Rand watched an unnerving number of incidents pile up this month at colleges where her son was considering applying, she felt she had to do something. The longtime administrator of a Facebook group for people interested in discussing the Holocaust, Rand knew the power of online community. So the New […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — As Joe Biden was speaking a political fundraiser in Minneapolis this week, a rabbi and activist with an anti-Zionist Jewish group stood up and shouted, “Mr. President, if you care about Jewish people, as a rabbi, I need you to call for a ceasefire right now.” Biden’s response: “Well, I understand […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Hamas’ massacres on Oct. 7 delivered “new momentum” to the effort to deliver restitution to the descendants of Holocaust survivors and victims whose property was stolen, Stuart Eizenstat, the State Department’s special adviser on Holocaust issues, said Thursday at a meeting with reporters for Jewish publications. “There’s a new momentum behind […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Authorities arrested a man wielding a pellet gun in the parking lot of the Detroit Jewish federation headquarters Thursday morning, in an incident that caused employees to go into lockdown for part of the day. In a statement, the federation said it did not believe the incident was antisemitic and that “we […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A Florida man has been charged with transmitting an interstate threat after he allegedly called the New York headquarters of a major Jewish organization and said he wanted to “kill every single one of you Israelis.” Deep Alpesh Kumar Patel, a 21-year-old Sarasota resident, faces up to five years in federal prison if […]