Author: Sara Wood

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A “community note” saying falsely that Leo Frank, the victim of an antisemitic lynching in 1915, was guilty of raping and murdering a young girl appeared and disappeared several times over the weekend on X, the platform known until recently as Twitter. Community notes, which allow users to contribute additional context about […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A vacant West Hartford, Connecticut, synagogue building, shuttered in 2018, could soon turn into 49 apartments — including affordable housing, a local newspaper has reported. Agudas Achim, an Orthodox congregation established in 1887 that primarily served Romanian immigrants, moved to its third permanent location in the building in 1969. Five years ago, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Vivek Ramaswamy, a long-shot contender for the Republican presidential nomination, said in an interview that the United States should reduce its aid to Israel. In an interview on Rumble, a platform popular with far-right viewers, Ramaswamy said Israel should not get more aid than its Middle Eastern neighbors after 2028, the year […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — President Joe Biden has not hidden his disdain of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned rehaul of Israel’s courts. But bubbling beneath the surface of Israel’s political crisis is another concern: shared U.S.-Israel security interests. As Israeli reservists pledge to boycott call-ups in protest of the controversial judicial reform legislation, experts […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A Jewish security agency is taking credit for tipping off the FBI about a man associated with a white supremacist group who had a stockpile of weapons and Nazi propaganda in his Los Angeles-area home. Ryan Scott Bradford was charged last month with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and being a felon in […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Even before Joanna Sargent had read “The Fixer,” she knew about it.  A middle-school librarian in South Carolina, Sargent first heard of Bernard Malamud’s novel about antisemitism during her professional training. Budding librarians often study Island Trees School District v. Pico, the only U.S. Supreme Court case to address the holdings of […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – At least two synagogues in California evacuated during Shabbat services over the weekend as online trolls targeted Jewish congregations for the fourth straight week with fake bomb and other security threats. At least 26 congregations in 12 states have received the threats, according to the Anti-Defamation League, which is raising alarm about […]

PITTSBURGH ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — I couldn’t walk easily, much less drive, but I knew I needed to be in Pittsburgh the moment I saw a CNN news alert that a shooting had taken place in a synagogue there. It was Oct. 27, 2018, and I still wasn’t healed after breaking my ankle hiking that summer […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — For its latest effort to combat antisemitism on college campuses, the Anti-Defamation League is turning to a particular brand of college student: frat boys. The Jewish civil rights group is partnering with Alpha Epsilon Pi, the historically Jewish fraternity, on an initiative to engage members of AEPi’s 150 local chapters starting this […]

((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 […]