Author: Sara Wood

A museum holding one of the most important photography collections of pre-Holocaust Jewish life wanted to scan thousands of images and make them accessible to the public online.  As part of the fundraising to digitize the archive of the renowned Russian Jewish photographer Roman Vishniac, the museum, known as the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art […]

Picture a Jew in Miami. Is the person you’re thinking of older? Perhaps a retiree from New York — complete with the accent — who lives in a condo on the beach? According to a recent Jewish population study of Miami-Dade County, at least part of that snapshot is becoming outdated. The southeast corner of […]

This article was produced as part of (JEWISH REVIEW)’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. Micah MikoLevine felt isolated and invisible on her private high school campus in Pasadena, California after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel. “There was this […]

Mahmoud Kahlil accused Columbia University of creating a “manufactured public hysteria about antisemitism” and likened the school to a Nazi collaborationist government in a letter dictated from an ICE detention center. He also claimed, without citing evidence, that fellow students who spoke out against antisemitism were serving in the Israeli military during school vacations. The […]

Mass layoffs and a sweeping restructuring at the Department of Health and Human Services could disrupt programs that deliver support for Holocaust survivors and kosher meals to homebound seniors and people with disabilities. As part of the Trump administration’s move to slash federal spending, the department is reducing its workforce by 25% and eliminating the […]

Several Jewish groups condemned a sheet that was draped over a charity store run by Sen. John Fetterman’s wife, Gisele, accusing the couple of “genocide.” The sheet, draped over Gisele Fetterman’s Free Store in Braddock, Pennsylvania, reads “Genocide John, Genocide Gisele, Blood on your hands.” A coalition of Jewish groups, including several Jewish federations in […]

In the latest bid to cleave Ben & Jerry’s from its parent company, Unilever, co-founder Ben Cohen is attempting to buy it back. Cohen is making moves to gather investors for a potential buy-back, according to the Wall Street Journal, a step that would sever ties with Unilever 25 years after it bought the Vermont […]