Author: Sara Wood

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A lawsuit filed by a Jewish labor activist in 1925 took down Henry Ford’s antisemitic newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, in a real-life drama that riveted Americans. A century later, the saga is set to become an on-screen drama, too, as a Jewish-interest production company is developing a film based on an academic […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Advertisers have been dropping off the social network X this week after its owner, Elon Musk, called an antisemitic post “the actual truth.” It was the exact pressure tactic that the Anti-Defamation League had recommended almost exactly a year earlier to fight hate on the platform, then known as Twitter. And given […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — HIAS, the Jewish immigration advocacy group, and seven other Jewish groups asked the Biden Administration to extend protected status to Israelis in the United States who fear returning to a warzone. The letter sent Friday asks President Joe Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to extend to Israelis deciding to […]

MADISON, Wisc. ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A neo-Nazi group of around 20 people marched through this Midwestern capital city on Saturday morning brandishing black-and-white swastika flags, chanting “There will be blood” and saluting Adolf Hitler. The group wore shirts labeled “Blood Tribe,” identifying them as members of a white supremacist group that the Anti-Defamation League says […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The number of Jewish Democrats calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war now numbers three, with Reps. Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Sara Jacobs of California joining Vermont’s Becca Balint. The calls signal a growing shift in how Jewish Democrats are approaching the war as it enters its sixth week, […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — In the span of two days, one Jewish lawmaker became the first to call on Israel to join a ceasefire, another called the Palestinian death toll “unacceptable” and a third said Israel’s conduct was a “moral failure.’ The 35 Jews in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the Senate — […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — After a suspect was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a pro-Israel protester near Los Angeles earlier this month, Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko said that his office has “not ruled out a hate crime” in the case. But he added that at present, based […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — IBM pulled $1 million in ads from X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after owner Elon Musk called an antisemitic post the “absolute truth,” his most direct endorsement of antisemitism since he started sparring with watchdogs who call out hate speech. And the tech giant may not be the only one […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Ethics Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives found that Rep. George Santos, the Long Island Republican who lied about being Jewish, had likely committed “substantial violations of federal law.” The committee referred its findings to the Department of Justice, where Santos is already under investigation. In response, Santos said on […]

LOS ANGELES ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Ventura County sheriff’s office has arrested a man in connection with the death of Paul Kessler, a 69-year-old Jewish pro-Israel activist who died after a confrontation during a demonstration in a Los Angeles suburb. Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji, 50, of Moorpark, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and his bail was […]