Author: Sara Wood

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Six decades ago, shortly before Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Rabbi Joachim Prinz called for racial equality in an address that began with the words, “I speak to you as an American Jew.” This Saturday, about a dozen […]

(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via (JEWISH REVIEW)) — Ask a rabbi about self-driving cars and you’d better be ready for a long answer. Self-driving cars — also known as robotaxis, autonomous vehicles or driverless cars — with their whirring sensors and their odd, almost tentative movements, have become a familiar sight on the streets […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Basketball player Jared Armstrong made headlines last year for his months-long effort to obtain Israeli citizenship. Armstrong, who was raised Jewish and completed a Conservative conversion to help his citizenship bid, was rejected multiple times before being granted temporary residence last May. The case drew attention from prominent Jewish leaders and drew […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A massive march aimed at pressing for stronger efforts to curb climate change will take place in New York on the second day of Rosh Hashanah — a scheduling move that could exclude Jewish climate activists. The coalition People vs. Fossil Fuels said it had selected the date despite the conflict after careful […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A “community note” saying falsely that Leo Frank, the victim of an antisemitic lynching in 1915, was guilty of raping and murdering a young girl appeared and disappeared several times over the weekend on X, the platform known until recently as Twitter. Community notes, which allow users to contribute additional context about […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A vacant West Hartford, Connecticut, synagogue building, shuttered in 2018, could soon turn into 49 apartments — including affordable housing, a local newspaper has reported. Agudas Achim, an Orthodox congregation established in 1887 that primarily served Romanian immigrants, moved to its third permanent location in the building in 1969. Five years ago, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Vivek Ramaswamy, a long-shot contender for the Republican presidential nomination, said in an interview that the United States should reduce its aid to Israel. In an interview on Rumble, a platform popular with far-right viewers, Ramaswamy said Israel should not get more aid than its Middle Eastern neighbors after 2028, the year […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — President Joe Biden has not hidden his disdain of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned rehaul of Israel’s courts. But bubbling beneath the surface of Israel’s political crisis is another concern: shared U.S.-Israel security interests. As Israeli reservists pledge to boycott call-ups in protest of the controversial judicial reform legislation, experts […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A Jewish security agency is taking credit for tipping off the FBI about a man associated with a white supremacist group who had a stockpile of weapons and Nazi propaganda in his Los Angeles-area home. Ryan Scott Bradford was charged last month with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and being a felon in […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Even before Joanna Sargent had read “The Fixer,” she knew about it.  A middle-school librarian in South Carolina, Sargent first heard of Bernard Malamud’s novel about antisemitism during her professional training. Budding librarians often study Island Trees School District v. Pico, the only U.S. Supreme Court case to address the holdings of […]