Author: Sara Wood

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — As an early champion of religious freedom in the United States, Thomas Jefferson’s regard for and relationship with Jews has been well-documented. But the Jewish history of Jefferson’s famous Monticello home is less known. Enter the documentary “The Levys of Monticello,” which hits streaming platforms Friday and tells the story of the […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Florida Rep. Lois Frankel, a Jewish Democrat, quit the party’s progressive caucus, one of the largest in  Congress, as the Israel-Hamas war has brought to the surface long simmering differences over Israel among progressives. Frankel’s departure was first reported Monday by The Intercept, and later confirmed with her office by Axios. […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – For the last five years, thousands of Jewish children in Illinois and their families have taken advantage of a state program that lets them defray the cost of private Jewish schools. Now, those families could see their payments rise after state lawmakers allowed the tuition tax credit program to expire, with little […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Elon Musk announced Tuesday that his social network X would be “donating all revenue from advertising & subscriptions associated with the war in Gaza to hospitals in Israel” and to a humanitarian organization operating in Gaza. The promise comes as he faces sharp criticism that his site is helping to spread Hamas […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — If the provisions of a likely agreement bear out and Hamas releases dozens of hostages, U.S. officials will celebrate alongside the Israelis. But then will come the questions about how, and whether, Israel restarts its war to defeat the terror group behind the abductions. Analysts and scholars with ties to Israel’s […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A lawsuit filed by a Jewish labor activist in 1925 took down Henry Ford’s antisemitic newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, in a real-life drama that riveted Americans. A century later, the saga is set to become an on-screen drama, too, as a Jewish-interest production company is developing a film based on an academic […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Advertisers have been dropping off the social network X this week after its owner, Elon Musk, called an antisemitic post “the actual truth.” It was the exact pressure tactic that the Anti-Defamation League had recommended almost exactly a year earlier to fight hate on the platform, then known as Twitter. And given […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — HIAS, the Jewish immigration advocacy group, and seven other Jewish groups asked the Biden Administration to extend protected status to Israelis in the United States who fear returning to a warzone. The letter sent Friday asks President Joe Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to extend to Israelis deciding to […]

MADISON, Wisc. ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A neo-Nazi group of around 20 people marched through this Midwestern capital city on Saturday morning brandishing black-and-white swastika flags, chanting “There will be blood” and saluting Adolf Hitler. The group wore shirts labeled “Blood Tribe,” identifying them as members of a white supremacist group that the Anti-Defamation League says […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The number of Jewish Democrats calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war now numbers three, with Reps. Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Sara Jacobs of California joining Vermont’s Becca Balint. The calls signal a growing shift in how Jewish Democrats are approaching the war as it enters its sixth week, […]