Author: Sara Wood

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — As news broke of Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7, David Weinstein shared the grief and fear of many in the American Jewish community. But as the director of Camp Tel Yehudah, a Jewish summer camp in New York, the violence soon hit very close to home. “Like everybody else, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Two people were taken into custody Sunday night as violence broke out at dueling pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian rallies in Skokie, a Chicago suburb with a large Jewish community. Several skirmishes occurred at the protests — a pro-Israel rally that drew 1,000 people and a 200-person pro-Palestinian counterprotest. The clashes between protesters are […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Michigan State University apologized after an image of Adolf Hitler was displayed on the school’s video board at its football game against the University of Michigan on Saturday. The photo was shown during a pregame trivia quiz at Spartan Stadium that came from the YouTube page The Quiz Channel. The question asked […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — More than a month after the start of the school year, Jewish day schools across the United States are experiencing a surge of new students: Israeli children whose own schools have been shuttered by war. Within days after Hamas’ attack on Israel Oct. 7, Prizmah, the North American network for Jewish day […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Police in Detroit said Sunday that they had found no indication of a hate crime in their investigation of the murder of Samantha Woll, a prominent and beloved local Jewish leader found stabbed to death outside her home early Saturday. The police did not offer any additional details about their investigation, which […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — More than half of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to President Joe Biden endorsing his policy of backing Israel in its war against Hamas, mounting a firewall against calls from the party’s left to pressure Israel into a ceasefire. The signatories include several outspoken critics of […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Samantha Woll, a Democratic activist and prominent Jewish lay leader in Detroit, was stabbed to death outside her home. Police found Woll, 40, at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday in the city’s Lafayette Park neighborhood, local media said. She had been stabbed multiple times and was unresponsive. A trail of blood led to […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – A Cornell University professor has apologized after saying at a rally that he was “exhilarated” by Hamas’ terror attack on Israel, in the latest example of American university faculty caught up in heated rhetoric over Israel and Gaza on college campuses. The apology by Russell Rickford, a history professor, was published the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Not knowing what else to do this week, Julia Starikovsky posted some pictures of herself in Israel on social media. Like other American Jews, Starikovsky, a 25-year-old psychology doctoral student at Northwestern University, was shocked and horrified by the devastation wrought by Hamas’ Oct. 7 invasion of Israel. She is planning to […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Hamas has released two American hostages, a mother and a daughter, whom it was holding in the Gaza Strip. Judith and Natalie Raanan of Evanston, Illinois, were among more than 200 people taken hostage during Hamas’ assault on Israel Oct. 7. They are the first to be released. The pair crossed back […]