Category: Local

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A Chabad rabbi is planning a trip to Texas’ death row to lead a final ritual confession, and Alan Dershowitz is trying to call the governor, as advocates for a Jewish man set to be executed on Tuesday are losing hope that he will avert his sentence.  The inmate, Jedidiah Murphy, killed […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Following weeks during which Elon Musk has attacked the Anti-Defamation League and threatened to sue it for billions of dollars, the Jewish civil rights group announced that it would resume advertising on X, the social media platform Musk owns. In a statement on Wednesday, the ADL said X, along with similar sites, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) —  The University of Pennsylvania is launching a review of its policies “to be better aware of who is coming to campus,” the latest fallout from a recent Palestinian cultural festival featuring public figures accused of antisemitism.  The university also pledged last month to add antisemitism awareness training to its equity and inclusion […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – A Jewish man who recently graduated college has sued billionaire Elon Musk for insinuating on his social media network, X, that the man was a member of a white supremacist group. Ben Brody, 22, is suing Musk for libel after the tech mogul reacted repeatedly to a photo of him this summer […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — J Street announced that Randi Weingarten, a teachers’ union leader who has become a prominent voice in national debates over COVID-19 and education, is joining its board. The liberal Israel lobby’s announcement on Wednesday said Weingarten would be joined by John Yarmuth, a retired Jewish Democratic congressman from Kentucky; Cary Sherman, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A hockey player at the University of Michigan has been removed from the team after being implicated, along with another varsity athlete, in an incident of anti-LGBTQ vandalism outside a campus Jewish center.  The announcement last week by the elite hockey team, which said sophomore Johnny Druskinis had been removed “for violating […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Brett Ratner, the director and producer of Hollywood blockbusters who is seeking a comeback from allegations of sexual misconduct, has emigrated to Israel. Last week, Ratner posted an Instagram story showing the passbook that Israel issues to new immigrants, granting them tax breaks and other benefits. He captioned it in Hebrew, “Brett […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — One of the candidates on the ballot for an upcoming Minnesota school board election is an avowed Holocaust denier who has called for all Jews to be sterilized and tattooed with the Star of David, all synagogues to be closed and all Jewish children to be forcibly removed from their parents. Vaughn […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Rep. Jamaal Bowman, the progressive New York Democrat, condemned a memo from his office that referred to Republicans as Nazis. House Republicans have launched efforts to punish Bowman for setting off a fire alarm in the U.S. Capitol over the weekend during last-minute negotiations over a pending government shutdown. In response, […]

PLAINVIEW, N.Y. — Nora Leeds had lived alone for many years in her Long Island home, but it wasn’t until the pandemic that she started to feel isolated. She was used to working in a large office with coworkers, but then her work went fully remote. For four months, Leeds, now 69, could not see […]