Author: Sara Wood

The U.S. federal government will last at least into Friday after the Senate paused budget talks to accommodate Yom Kippur. The government shut down at midnight Wednesday night amid a standoff between Democratic and Republican senators over competing spending bills. Talks to end the shutdown, the first since the record-breaking 35-day freeze in 2018, immediately […]

I last appeared before a judge 40 years ago when I tried fighting an “unjust” speeding ticket. That didn’t go so well. As they say, “He who represents himself has a fool for a client.” My takeaway: pay the fine and don’t add insult to injury by paying court costs. But this year, in the […]

The Anti-Defamation League has removed an online resource guide about extremism, one day after Elon Musk escalated a wave of right-wing criticism against the group by criticizing an entry. The deletion of the Glossary of Extremism and Hate was first reported Tuesday by Jewish Insider. The guide is no longer on the ADL’s homepage, and […]

After the Guardian reported on Sunday that hundreds of Northwestern University students were being blocked from classes after they refused to watch an antisemitism training video, the school offered a clarification on Monday: The real number of students penalized is less than three dozen. But other elements of the story remain unchanged: The students are […]

For the first time, more American voters say they sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis, according to a new poll from The New York Times and Siena University. The poll adds yet another data point to a growing pile showing a sharp drop in sympathy for Israelis since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack. In the […]

Elon Musk has intensified his long-running feud with the Anti-Defamation League, calling the Jewish civil rights group a “hate group” in a post on X, the platform he owns and renamed from Twitter. “The ADL hates Christians, therefore it is is [sic] a hate group,” Musk wrote Sunday, responding to a pseudonymous account that had […]

When Will Eastman, a fundraiser for Jewish camps in New Jersey, recently sought to transfer his daughter, the eldest of four children, from public school to a Jewish day school, his immediate reaction was “sticker shock.” “The minute we walked in the door, it was $27,000 for kindergarten at one place and $17,000 at another,” […]

A pro-Palestinian activist who pleaded guilty to firebombing a police vehicle in Berkeley, California, last year, was sentenced this week to 19 years in federal prison. Casey Goonan, 35, also admitted to targeting other sites, including the University of California, Berkeley and a federal building in Oakland, with fires and Molotov cocktails in the name […]

Apple TV+ has delayed the release of “The Savant,” a show starring Jessica Chastain that puts a spotlight on the secretive division within the Anti-Defamation League charged with infiltrating online hate groups to stop real-world violence. Originally set to begin streaming Friday, the series was postponed without an explanation, but the New York Times reported […]

A Florida man has been arrested in connection with a fire last week in a classroom at a Chabad in Florida, days before Rosh Hashanah. Blake Richard Hoover, 31, of Punta Gorda, was arrested by local police Monday and charged with arson and criminal mischief. Those charges were also enhanced with hate crime charges, according […]