Author: Sara Wood

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – A middle school teacher in a district outside Houston, Texas, has been fired reportedly for reading a sexual passage from Anne Frank’s diary out loud to eighth-grade students, the district told local news.  The passage came from a 2018 graphic version of the diary by the world-famous Jewish Holocaust victim that restored […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Elon Musk is famous for cracking down on staffers who criticize him, whether at Tesla, the electric car company he owns, or at X, the social media platform he purchased and renamed from Twitter. So his confession to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the pair’s livestreamed conversation on Monday was notable. […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Former U.S. president Donald Trump launched his latest broadside against liberal Jews — while wishing them a happy Rosh Hashanah. “Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy America & Israel because you believed false narratives!” read the text of the image Trump posted Sunday night, near the end […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) –  A number of Jewish organizations have condemned an upcoming conference on Palestinian culture, taking place at the University of Pennsylvania, that includes speakers accused of antisemitism. But the groups decrying the conference disagree about what the school should do about it. The biggest name speaking at the “Palestine Writes” festival taking place […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Police investigated bomb threats at a number of synagogues across the United States during the two days of Rosh Hashanah, as a wave of threats that have interrupted congregations for months continued into the High Holidays. All of the cases were ultimately deemed not credible and no incidents of violence were reported […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Days after a synagogue in St. Petersburg, Florida, was forced to evacuate services following a bomb threat, the local city council met to discuss a resolution about antisemitism. The resolution was about whether to endorse a definition of antisemitism that its authors and local advocates both say can be a useful first […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Speaking after dozens of synagogues were targeted by false bombs threats, President Joe Biden offered rabbis assurances ahead of the High Holidays that he is committed to Jewish security. “This month, as you attend a shul for the High Holidays, I know you’re concerned about security,” Biden told 1,200 rabbis from […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — For synagogues across the country, it’s becoming a standard part of preparing for the High Holidays: Set up extra seating in the sanctuary. Make sure the shofars are in order. Take out the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur prayer books. And figure out what, if anything, to do about COVID-19. As Jews […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Boston Red Sox fired Chaim Bloom on Thursday, ending the Shabbat-observant baseball executive’s nearly four-year tenure as the team’s chief baseball officer. Bloom, who also keeps kosher, was seen as a wunderkind with his previous team, the Tampa Bay Rays, who under his leadership became one of baseball’s best teams despite […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — As the High Holidays near, Rabbi Mara Nathan doesn’t expect the recent wave of fake bomb threats directed at synagogues to significantly change the way she and her congregation worship together.  After all, her synagogue will already have its usual, extensive array of security measures in place: from bomb-sniffing dogs and […]