Author: Sara Wood

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Police in Detroit said Sunday that they had found no indication of a hate crime in their investigation of the murder of Samantha Woll, a prominent and beloved local Jewish leader found stabbed to death outside her home early Saturday. The police did not offer any additional details about their investigation, which […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — More than half of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to President Joe Biden endorsing his policy of backing Israel in its war against Hamas, mounting a firewall against calls from the party’s left to pressure Israel into a ceasefire. The signatories include several outspoken critics of […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Samantha Woll, a Democratic activist and prominent Jewish lay leader in Detroit, was stabbed to death outside her home. Police found Woll, 40, at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday in the city’s Lafayette Park neighborhood, local media said. She had been stabbed multiple times and was unresponsive. A trail of blood led to […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – A Cornell University professor has apologized after saying at a rally that he was “exhilarated” by Hamas’ terror attack on Israel, in the latest example of American university faculty caught up in heated rhetoric over Israel and Gaza on college campuses. The apology by Russell Rickford, a history professor, was published the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Not knowing what else to do this week, Julia Starikovsky posted some pictures of herself in Israel on social media. Like other American Jews, Starikovsky, a 25-year-old psychology doctoral student at Northwestern University, was shocked and horrified by the devastation wrought by Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of Israel. She is planning to […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Hamas has released two American hostages, a mother and a daughter, whom it was holding in the Gaza Strip. Judith and Natalie Raanan of Evanston, Illinois, were among more than 200 people taken hostage during Hamas’ assault on Israel Oct. 7. They are the first to be released. The pair crossed back […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — President Joe Biden delivered a rare Oval Office address asking Americans to back assistance to Israel and Ukraine in the name of preserving democracy across the globe. “We’re facing an inflection point in history,” Biden said Thursday in the roughly 15-minute address, delivered just hours after he returned from a lightning […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Pro-Palestinian hackers briefly took over the Pittsburgh Jewish Federation’s feed on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Hours later, after retaking control, the federation deleted its account on the platform. The federation said the hack impacted its Facebook account as well. The hack took place less than two weeks after the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – A Jewish man in metropolitan Detroit was arrested and charged with making a terroristic threat Saturday after allegedly asking on social media if anyone wanted to help him “go to Dearborn & hunt Palestinians.” The reported remark and the arrest come amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. Carl Mintz, 41, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — At least 300 people were arrested at a Jewish-led rally in the U.S. Capitol calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and condemning Israel for a “potential genocide” of the territory. The rally was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow, two Jewish groups that have focused their criticism on Israel and […]