Author: Sara Wood

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – More than 80 bands and several scheduled panelists have pulled out of the ongoing South by Southwest festival, citing Israel defense ties among its organizers. Organizers of the Austin, Texas, event that draws attendees from around the world have threatened legal action against the boycott’s leaders. But they also said on Tuesday […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A public school district in suburban New York is being investigated for discrimination by the U.S. Department of Education, months after basketball players from one of its schools directed antisemitic slurs at their opponents from a Jewish day school. Yonkers Public Schools has already taken several measures to rectify the January incident, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — One of the most prominent Jewish groups in the country has thrown its support behind a fast-advancing bill that could lead to the massively popular video app TikTok being banned in the United States.  Politicians backing the bill, who include leaders from both parties, have centered their criticism of TikTok on national […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Ron Hassner is sleeping on a mattress on the floor. He’s told his students he will be teaching classes only on Zoom. And people keep dropping by with plates of food. That’s because Hassner, the chair of Israel studies at the University of California, Berkeley, has announced that he will not leave […]

When members of the year-old Reform Communal Chevra Kadisha of New York complete their work preparing a Jewish body for burial, they take a few minutes to stand together around the closed coffin.  Traditionally, this is a moment when the members of a chevra kadisha ask for forgiveness from the person who has died for […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Attendees at the Academy Awards on Sunday night could will some of the most searing footage of the last year when a video featuring Israelis held hostage by Hamas is screened on a building adjacent to one of the award show’s glitziest afterparties. The display planned outside the Vanity Fair party is […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A real-life synagogue bomb threat of the type that plagued Jewish congregations for much of last year will be dramatized in an ad during Sunday’s Academy Awards, the most-watched non-football television broadcast in the United States. The spot has been placed by Robert Kraft’s Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, which also ran an […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – At a recent city council meeting in Evanston, Illinois, a man in dark sunglasses stepped up to the podium during the public comment period to accuse the Anti-Defamation League of stifling free speech. Wearing a hat with the logo of the neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League, the man — who claimed to […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — President Joe Biden used his State of the Union speech to call on Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, saying that it must not be used as leverage. “Israel must do its part. Israel must allow more aid into Gaza and ensure humanitarian workers aren’t caught in […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – The Jewish interim CEO of a prestigious arts center in San Francisco is resigning from her position, calling her decision “a direct result” of antisemitism she has experienced in the wake of a protest by pro-Palestinian artists on exhibit. “For me as an individual, the last weeks have been excruciating. Not just […]