Author: Sara Wood

PITTSBURGH ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Less than an hour after heading into deliberations, the jury considering whether to give a death sentence to the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter asked to see his weapons. The request on Tuesday morning was a signal that the jury is proceeding to its final verdict in the trial, which has lasted for […]

This is a developing story. ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Police in Memphis shot and killed a man on Monday whom they said attempted to attack a Jewish day school there. The incident occurred around noon at Margolin Hebrew Academy Feinstone Yeshiva of the South, an Orthodox school on the city’s east side. A man fired shots […]

PITTSBURGH ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — “If I have chance, will continue war,” appeared in a scrawl on a notepad, projected onto large TV screens in the courtroom. The image showed a note taken by a psychiatrist in early June as he assessed Robert Bowers, the man who murdered 11 worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018. […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Campers at Cedar Lake Camp in Milford, Pennsylvania, will experience a second visiting day next week when a special guest drops in: Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. Emhoff is headed to the camp next Thursday to visit his old stomping grounds and speak to the Jewish campers there about Jewish life and antisemitism. […]

PITTSBURGH ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A courtroom debate over whether the man who killed 11 Jews in a Pittsburgh synagogue should get the death penalty hinged briefly this week over the question of how many federal prisoners are Jewish. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Robert Bowers, who was convicted on 63 counts last month, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — As head of programming for Maccabi USA, Shane Carr is used to having people ask him to add sports to the organization’s many Jewish sports tournaments around the world. But since 2019, one sport has been suggested above all others: pickleball. Widely considered the fastest-growing sport in America, pickleball is a sort of […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – A man in Anchorage, Alaska, who vandalized a local Jewish museum and several other locations with swastikas has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, on a combination of charges including unrelated drug trafficking. Luke Foster went on a vandalism spree in 2021, twice tagging the Alaska Jewish Museum with stickers featuring […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Speaking at an event geared toward Jewish voters on Tuesday night, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said, “The charge of antisemitism is one that cuts me.” Kennedy, the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and Democratic presidential candidate, was responding to mounting backlash against his claim that COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” to avoid Jews and Chinese […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — In an extraordinary swipe at a popular Fox News Channel host, a White House official condemned Greg Gutfeld’s claim that “you had to be useful” to survive Nazi death camps. “What Fox News allowed to be said on their air yesterday –- and has so far failed to condemn –- is […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – The casino company controlled by Jewish megadonor Miriam Adelson is paying its shareholders dividends again, potentially paving the way to a rebound for the family’s foundation.  The Adelson Family Foundation — founded by Adelson and her late husband, Sheldon Adelson — has been a prolific giver to Jewish organizations, including Birthright Israel. […]