Author: Sara Wood

ORLANDO ((JEWISH REVIEW)) —  Ethan Smith ranks fifth in his New Jersey high school class, scored high on the SAT and aced a full slate of five Advanced Placement tests last year. On Oct. 1, he submitted his application to a nearby Ivy League school, the University of Pennsylvania. Six days later, Hamas attacked Israel, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – About two dozen progressive Jewish activists tuned into the “MI Jews Uncommitted Phone Bank” this week, ready to ask their networks not to vote for President Joe Biden. Their virtual phone bank, held ahead of Michigan’s Feb. 27 primary, was unlike any other. Instead of a get-out-the-vote campaign, this crew would be […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – The FBI arrested an Indiana man who promised to “kill every Jew” in Fort Wayne last year — and local Jewish leaders are questioning why they weren’t alerted to the threat sooner. The suspect, 41-year-old Jeffrey Stevens, admitted in interviews that he had posted violent antisemitic threats directly to the website of […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Two decades-old left-wing pro-Israel groups, Americans for Peace Now and Ameinu, are poised to merge — a consolidation of voices in the liberal Zionist camp amid Israel’s war with Hamas. The presidents of the two small nonprofits — Americans for Peace Now’s Hadar Susskind and Ameinu’s Ken Bob — told the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology suspended a pro-Palestinian student group Tuesday for violating campus rules about demonstrations, the latest school to do so amid controversy over the Israel-Hamas war. MIT President Sally Kornbluth, who is Jewish, announced the suspension of MIT Coalition Against Apartheid in a video. The group had held what […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — On its second try, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached the Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by a single vote, in a process some Jewish groups said was tainted by antisemitic rhetoric. The impeachment of Mayorkas, who is Jewish, passed Tuesday on party lines by a vote of 214-213, with three […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved a defense aid package for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, including humanitarian assistance for Palestinians, that now faces a difficult path in the Republican-led House of Representatives.  The bill, approved 70-29 in a bipartisan vote before dawn on Tuesday after weeks of wrangling, is the latest bid […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Egypt’s foreign minister dampened speculation that the country’s peace treaty with Israel would be at risk if Israel invaded Rafah, a city on Gaza’s border with Egypt. In recent days, Israeli officials have said they plan to send ground troops into Rafah as the next stage in their war against Hamas. […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Meta has shut down the Instagram and Facebook accounts of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, “for repeatedly violating our Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy.” The company did not elaborate on its policy, reported Friday by multiple media outlets, but since Oct. 18, 11 days after Hamas terrorists raided Israel and murdered […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — As Harvard University has become ground zero in the debate around campus antisemitism, a new federal investigation at the school will determine whether it has done enough to stop harassment of Palestinian students and their allies. The Title VI investigation comes at a tense moment for the Ivy League institution, whose president […]