Author: Sara Wood

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — For decades, the heirs of Viennese Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum have sought the restitution of his extensive art collection, which was pilfered by the Nazis. This year, they have seen a spate of success. The return of two portraits by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele was announced on Wednesday, two weeks after […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Bruce Friedman was moved by “The Diary of Anne Frank” when he read it at age 9. As a child in a kosher-keeping Jewish home on Long Island, he saw in the Holocaust memoir an essential lesson for Jewish and non-Jewish children alike. “You learn to sympathize, empathize, share the fear and […]

SAN FRANCISCO (J. Jewish News of Northern California via (JEWISH REVIEW)) — Dianne Feinstein was an eshet chayil, the Hebrew term for a woman of valor, Rabbi Jonathan Singer proclaimed in his opening remarks on Thursday at a memorial service for the U.S. senator who died Sept. 29 at 90. The event outside San Francisco […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – A Jewish center in Durham, North Carolina, evacuated its occupants after receiving a fake bomb threat on Tuesday, one week after the arrest of a suspect accused of directing a series of such threats at synagogues across the country.  Since the summer, dozens of Jewish institutions across America have been targeted with […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A Chabad rabbi is planning a trip to Texas’ death row to lead a final ritual confession, and Alan Dershowitz is trying to call the governor, as advocates for a Jewish man set to be executed on Tuesday are losing hope that he will avert his sentence.  The inmate, Jedidiah Murphy, killed […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Following weeks during which Elon Musk has attacked the Anti-Defamation League and threatened to sue it for billions of dollars, the Jewish civil rights group announced that it would resume advertising on X, the social media platform Musk owns. In a statement on Wednesday, the ADL said X, along with similar sites, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) —  The University of Pennsylvania is launching a review of its policies “to be better aware of who is coming to campus,” the latest fallout from a recent Palestinian cultural festival featuring public figures accused of antisemitism.  The university also pledged last month to add antisemitism awareness training to its equity and inclusion […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – A Jewish man who recently graduated college has sued billionaire Elon Musk for insinuating on his social media network, X, that the man was a member of a white supremacist group. Ben Brody, 22, is suing Musk for libel after the tech mogul reacted repeatedly to a photo of him this summer […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — J Street announced that Randi Weingarten, a teachers’ union leader who has become a prominent voice in national debates over COVID-19 and education, is joining its board. The liberal Israel lobby’s announcement on Wednesday said Weingarten would be joined by John Yarmuth, a retired Jewish Democratic congressman from Kentucky; Cary Sherman, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A hockey player at the University of Michigan has been removed from the team after being implicated, along with another varsity athlete, in an incident of anti-LGBTQ vandalism outside a campus Jewish center.  The announcement last week by the elite hockey team, which said sophomore Johnny Druskinis had been removed “for violating […]