Author: Sara Wood

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly voted against impeaching Alejandro Mayorkas, the Jewish homeland security secretary, after a process that a number of Jewish groups and the White House said was marred by antisemitism. The vote Tuesday evening was 216 against to 214 for impeachment, a stunning loss for House Speaker […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The House and Senate are rushing competing bills to the floor with massive aid for Israel, with votes expected as soon as this week. The question is whether the bills in the Republican-led House and the Democratic-led Senate can be reconciled, or whether they will cancel each other out, once again […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — D.C. police have arrested the Lyft driver who allegedly assaulted a Chabad rabbi last weekend, and are now treating the case as a hate crime. Police on Wednesday arrested Tireek Myrick, 32, in the Jan. 28 assault of Rabbi Menachem Shemtov, the Chabad rabbi at Georgetown University and the scion of […]

(New York Jewish Week) — A man has pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes for a spree of violent attacks against Jews in a heavily Orthodox area of New Jersey. In April 2022, Dion Marsh perpetrated a series of attacks against Orthodox Jews in and around Lakewood, a city in central New Jersey that is […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — President Joe Biden ordered strict sanctions on four Israeli West Bank settlers for alleged violence against Palestinians and Israeli peace activists. Biden’s executive order Thursday represented an escalation of the diplomacy and pressure he has exerted on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rein in extremists. A White House statement framed […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Last year, as fighting swirled over the Israeli government’s efforts to reshape the country’s judiciary, Israeli and American critics turned their attention to Arthur Dantchik, a Jewish billionaire who bankrolled a think tank behind the proposed reforms. After facing protests outside his Philadelphia-area home, Dantchik gave in. He announced that he would stop […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – A suburban Minneapolis school district is facing a federal investigation for Islamophobic discrimination after suspending two Muslim students who chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” The case at Edina Public Schools has divided local Jews and Muslims and is the latest in an expanding list of Title […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Elliot Resnick, the onetime editor of a Jewish newspaper who claimed that he was at the Capitol riot to cover it, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charge for joining the attackers and obstructing a police officer. “Did you do what the government stated?” U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras asked the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A Delaware public school district will send staff to anti-harassment training and compensate the family of a Jewish student who alleged antisemitic bullying. The agreement followed a U.S. Department of Education investigation into how Red Clay Consolidated School District handled allegations of antisemitic incidents, detailed in a complaint to the agency last June.  […]

It’s not hard to feel a sense of despair in these extraordinarily difficult times for Jews in Israel and around the world following the horrors of Oct. 7, the upsurge in antisemitism close to home, and the continuing loss of human life. In times of despair, Jewish tradition offers us a path to hope, repair, […]