Author: Sara Wood

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – In a high-profile congressional hearing, the presidents of three of the nation’s top universities acknowledged that Jewish and Israeli students have felt unsafe on campus since Oct. 7 and said their schools were taking action to fight antisemitism. But at times the three leaders — from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The U.S. House of Representatives approved a nonbinding resolution saying that anti-Zionism is antisemitism, with support from all but one Republican and a substantial minority of Democrats. The resolution was introduced by the two Jewish Republicans in the House, Max Miller of Ohio and David Kustoff of Tennessee. It was notable […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Biden administration announced that it would ban people who have “been involved in undermining peace, security, or stability in the West Bank” from entering the United States —  a signal of its frustration with Israel’s government for not reining in extremist Israeli settlers. The ban, announced Tuesday in a statement […]

(Texas Tribune via (JEWISH REVIEW)) — Two months after a prominent conservative activist and fundraiser was caught hosting white supremacist Nick Fuentes, leaders of the Republican Party of Texas have voted against barring the party from associating with known Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers. In a 32-29 vote on Saturday, members of the Texas GOP’s […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – When the director of the Chabad-Lubavitch center in Williamsburg, Virginia, pitched a local arts and culture festival last month on the idea of holding a public menorah lighting to celebrate Hanukkah, he thought it made sense. “We look to bring people together with Jewish pride and unity,” Rabbi Mendy Heber, of Chabad […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Elected officials and Jewish groups are decrying a rally by pro-Palestinian activists in Philadelphia that targeted a restaurant founded by the Israeli-American celebrity chef Michael Solomonov. “Goldie, Goldie, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide,” a crowd of dozens of people chanted outside the Rittenhouse Square outpost of Goldie, Solomonov’s kosher […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — More than a dozen Jewish members of Congress gathered on Friday for the first meeting of the U.S. House of Representatives Jewish Caucus. But following the meeting, held in the offices of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, an influential Jewish Democrat from Florida, it remains unclear what the caucus will stand for […]

This is a developing story. (New York Jewish Week) – Bomb threats were made against 15 synagogues in New York State early Friday morning, according to a Jewish security agency in New York City.  Threats were made against five synagogues in Manhattan, two in Brooklyn, one on Long Island, two in Westchester County, and five […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – A suburb of Portland, Maine, has removed a Star of David from its annual holiday lights display after a local Arab American organization complained, reportedly calling it “offensive” in light of Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza. But the mayor of Westbrook told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the reason for the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Elon Musk called his recent endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory “foolish” and said he was “sorry for that post” on X, the social media platform he owns and renamed from Twitter. But speaking at the New York Times Dealbook Summit on Wednesday, Musk also struck back, in expletive-laden language, at the […]