Author: Sara Wood

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Top White House officials are meeting with a bipartisan slate of Jewish members of Congress Wednesday as the administration presses for funding for key components of its strategy to combat antisemitism, including efforts on college campuses. Douglas Emhoff, the Jewish Second Gentleman, who is spearheading implementation of the strategy, will join […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — At the end of 2022, Kanye West, the billionaire rapper who now goes by Ye, seemed to be persona non grata in the entertainment industry. After months of antisemitic rants on social media and in unhinged interviews, he was dropped from a lucrative business partnership with Adidas and booted from his longtime […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — As a political science professor for two decades and as the director of the Harris Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska, I’ve been through several rounds of odious speech and debate over how to handle it. So I’ve been extremely surprised by the whole university presidents congressional hearing debacle. […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Harvard University’s board of directors will keep Claudine Gay as the school’s president despite pressure to force her out after she declined to say outright that calls for the genocide of Jews violated campus rules.  The Harvard Corporation, the school’s board, met behind closed doors for hours Monday night before formally announcing […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — To steer the university through an unexpected leadership change induced by debate over antisemitism, the board of the University of Pennsylvania turned to their vice chair — who is also one of the most prominent Jewish communal leaders in the country. Julie Beren Platt, a 1979 Penn graduate, has been on the […]

This is a developing story. ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A man was arrested on multiple charges including a hate crime after allegedly striking a Jewish man on his way to synagogue in the Los Angeles enclave of Beverly Hills on Saturday. The man, Jarris Silagi, 44, allegedly hit Raphael Nissel, 75, on the head and said, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The president of the University of Pennsylvania announced her resignation on Saturday after facing growing backlash for declining to say outright that calling for the genocide of Jews violated the school’s code of conduct. “I write to share that President Liz Magill has voluntarily tendered her resignation as President of the University […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The president of Harvard University told the student newspaper that she was sorry for causing pain with her testimony during Tuesday’s congressional hearing in which multiple college leaders said their schools’ codes of conduct would not necessarily prohibit calls for genocide of Jews. “I am sorry,” Claudine Gay said in an interview […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — On a Saturday in late November, vandals smashed the front entrance of Pita Grill, a kosher restaurant in New York’s Upper East Side, and stole e-bikes in front of the restaurant.  Law enforcement quickly concluded that it was not a hate crime, but a standard robbery. The restaurant was closed for Shabbat […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Rabbi David Wolpe is stepping down from the antisemitism advisory committee at Harvard University, citing “events on campus and the painfully inadequate testimony” of the university’s president, Claudine Gay, during a congressional hearing this week on campus antisemitism. “Without rehashing all of the obvious reasons that have been endlessly adumbrated online, and […]