Author: Sara Wood

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Los Angeles teachers union and another influential labor group have ceased campaigning for a school board candidate who promoted an antisemitic book. United Teachers Los Angeles and the L.A. County Federation of Labor both announced Friday that they were suspending campaign activities for Kahllid Al-Alim, days after a 2022 social media […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A jury found a Baltimore area rabbi liable in sexually abusing two children, awarding each of the victims $8,001. The multiyear case came about after Rabbi Shmuel Krawatsky sued three of his reported victims and others in 2018 for defamation after their accusations were published in the New York Jewish Week. All […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Earlier this week, 99 out of the 120 members of the Knesset voted against unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state. The rare moment of near-consensus in Israel’s fractious parliament was meant as a rebuke of American efforts toward Palestinian statehood. Last week, reports emerged that the Biden administration was planning a […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — This week, Rep. Ritchie Torres posted two tweets about issues that directly affect his Bronx constituents: funding centers for mental health care and public safety on the subway. Sandwiched in between was a third post echoing the core talking point of pro-Israel activists since Oct. 7: “The international community remains obsessed […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – The Department of Education will investigate Chicago Public Schools and another K-12 district in Massachusetts, the latest in a flurry of federal probes into discrimination since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.  Neither district would confirm the reason for its investigation to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. But students in Chicago recently staged […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — American Jewish University in Los Angeles completed the sale of its main campus to Milken Community School, a nondenominational Jewish school located only a few hundred feet away, the two institutions announced Wednesday.  The announcement puts to rest concerns that the 22-acre hilltop property would go to an entity outside of the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – After two years of Florida schools making headlines for pulling Anne Frank’s diary, “Schindler’s List,” Saul Bellow novels and other Jewish books, Ron DeSantis has conceded that his state’s book challenge policy has gone too far. DeSantis, the governor and former Republican presidential candidate, pinned the blame not on the policy itself […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – A group of pro-Palestinian faculty and staff at Harvard University apologized Monday for posting an image that school administrators and Jewish leaders called antisemitic, in the latest row over Israel at the Ivy League institution. The image was posted to Instagram this week by Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — For months, President Joe Biden has asked for — and Congress has debated — sending wartime foreign aid to Israel as it battles Hamas in the Gaza Strip.  The bill currently on the table, passed in a bipartisan vote by the Senate last week, would see some $14 billion go […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Jews who experienced antisemitism give significantly more to charity than those who have not, according to one of the largest surveys of Jewish household giving ever conducted. The survey of American Jewish donations in 2022 found that some three-quarters of American Jewish households gave to charity that year, donating an average of more than […]