Author: Sara Wood

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — In songs and in speeches, an event at the White House marking Jewish American Heritage Month celebrated the presence of Jews in America since colonial times — and fretted about threats to American Jewry today. “For some reason it’s come roaring back in the last several years,” President Biden told a […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Hours after tweeting that George Soros “hates humanity,” Elon Musk bashed the Anti-Defamation League, appearing to draw praise from a series of white supremacist accounts on Twitter, which he owns. On Tuesday afternoon, Musk tweeted, “ADL should just drop the ‘A.’” The tweet implied that the group, which is the most prominent […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – A Jewish teacher at a public middle school in Wisconsin was arrested last week for threatening his students with gun violence after discovering a piece of paper with swastikas in class. David Schroeder was arrested on Friday and charged Monday with a felony count of making terrorist threats, according to the court […]

((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 […]