Author: Sara Wood

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — On Aug. 2, camp directors across the country — including at several prominent Jewish camps — received an email with stressful news. Just days out from their campers’ return home, the company hired to transport all of their belongings home had announced its sudden closure. “Despite our best efforts, including remortgaging my […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Jewish groups in the United States and in Hawaii are launching relief efforts following the devastation caused by wildfires that have killed more than 50 people so far. The wildfires have all but destroyed the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, which Hawaii’s Jewish governor, Josh Green, toured on Thursday with […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Like many parents, Mickey and Linda Rubin indulged their only child Ricky’s various hobbies — magic, photography, music — while he was growing up in the 1970s on Long Island. Ultimately, they hoped he would set his artistic interests aside and choose the sensible career of an attorney. Ricky famously stuck with […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Federal agents arrested a West Virginia man on Thursday for allegedly threatening jurors and witnesses in the trial of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, which culminated last week in a death sentence. The man who was arrested, Hardy Lloyd, 45, is “a self-proclaimed ‘reverend’ of a white supremacy movement,” according to a statement […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Anti-Defamation League expressed concern about a South African song calling to “Kill the Boer” after Elon Musk repeatedly prodded the group to speak out — the latest in an ongoing tiff between the Jewish civil rights group and the billionaire. Late last month, a video of a left-wing South African politician […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Emily Talento grew up with Jewish friends and relatives on Long Island, attending Passover seders, bar and bat mitzvahs and Shabbat dinners. When she arrived at Cedarville University, a private Baptist university in Ohio, she found herself explaining Jewish traditions to her many classmates who had never met a Jew before. Now, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The charity Kars4Kids is citing an incident outside its Jewish camp in upstate New York in pressing its case to arm staff. In the July 23 incident, a man allegedly brandished a machete when approached by a staffer at The Zone, the Orthodox Jewish camp that Kars4Kids operates in Gilboa, New York, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Ever since hundreds of thousands of Israelis began pouring into the streets to oppose their government’s plan to weaken the courts, the protests have faced a contentious question: How much, if at all, should the demonstrations focus on Palestinian rights? The answer to that question, over the past seven months, has been […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex abuse ring, is receiving services from a nonprofit that supports Jewish prisoners. Maxwell, whose father was Jewish, did not publicly identify as Jewish previously and is not considered Jewish under traditional Jewish […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A new Iowa state law forbidding instruction on sexual and gender identity prompted one school district this week to briefly order staff to remove Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” and hundreds of other books from its shelves. But days later following national outrage, the district reversed course, issuing a trimmed-down list of 65 books […]