Author: Sara Wood

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who became an aide to former President Donald Trump, mocked Jews for observing Passover, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by a former assistant who is accusing him of sexual assault and harassment. “Jews want to go through their freaking Passover all the time, […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Elon Musk tweeted that George Soros “hates humanity,” and wrote that the billionaire and progressive megadonor “reminds me of Magneto,” a comic book villain who features in Marvel’s X-Men series. The attacks on Soros come as Twitter has faced criticism over its lax hate speech policies in the months since Musk, […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Republican Jewish Coalition is calling on Congress to maintain defense assistance to Ukraine, taking a side in an increasingly fraught debate within its own party. “Our elected leaders have provided billions of dollars in assistance to bolster Ukraine’s military,” the RJC said in a statement released Monday. “We call on […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Orthodox singer Ishay Ribo, whose music has attracted a diverse audience of religious and secular Israeli fans, will be the first musician from Israel to headline a concert at Madison Square Garden.  “I’ve been keeping this inside for a long time and more than once I pinched myself to check if […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Following the sale of its Bel Air campus last year, American Jewish University announced Monday that its rabbinical school will relocate to a commercial building in Beverly Hills, within walking distance of the heavily Jewish Pico-Robertson neighborhood, in 2024. The Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, which is affiliated with Conservative Judaism, will […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — When House Speaker Kevin McCarthy blocked an event marking 75 years of Palestinian suffering since Israel’s establishment in 1948, he promised to replace it with a bipartisan discussion celebrating Israel. McCarthy’s event took place, but only Republicans spoke. Prominent pro-Israel Democratic lawmakers were not invited. “This event in the US Capitol […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — In a recent speech, Rep. Rashida Tlaib said she struggles with the idea of uprooting Israeli settlements in the West Bank, comparing the evacuation of settlements to the displacement of Palestinians during and after Israel’s 1948 War of Independence.  The Democratic congresswoman, who is Palestinian-American, made the remarks on Monday via Zoom […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Decades before Sandy Koufax sat out the first game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, and 18 years before Greenberg chased Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record in the late 1930s, a college athlete made some overlooked Jewish sports history. Arnold Horween, a burly Chicagoan, became the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Florida’s state education department rejected two new Holocaust-focused textbooks for classroom use, while forcing at least one other textbook to alter a passage about the Hebrew Bible in order to meet state approval.  The books were rejected as part of a broader review of new K-12 social studies material. According to documents […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — After being thwarted by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Rep. Rashida Tlaib succeeded in spotlighting Palestinian perspectives on Israel’s founding in an event on Capitol Hill — with help from one of Congress’ most powerful Jewish members, Sen. Bernie Sanders. The Palestinian-American Democrat from Detroit also introduced a congressional resolution calling on […]