Author: Sara Wood

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — For pro-Israel students at Brandeis University, the two weeks since Hamas attacked Israel had been, at least in part, a period of relief: Their campus hadn’t been convulsed by the kind of anti-Israel sentiment that was roiling so many others. That changed on Sunday, when Brandeis’ student government voted down a resolution […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – When Reform Judaism’s leading educational institution adopted a controversial plan last year to discontinue rabbinical seminary studies at its flagship Cincinnati campus, leaders were insistent that other graduate programs would still be on offer there. That no longer appears to be the case, as Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s president has […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – A top lawyer in Illinois’ state government told a Jewish person, “Hitler should have eradicated all of you.” An Israeli student was assaulted at Columbia University. And Jewish schools and synagogues in at least three different states have been subjected to violent threats. Those are a few incidents that have occurred during […]

((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 […]