Category: Local

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Ira Sheskin is one of the most prominent demographers of American Jews. A professor at the University of Miami, Sheskin helps Jewish communities across the country carry out complicated population surveys. He sometimes works for businesses, too, and several years ago, a major kosher poultry company turned to him with a quandary. […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – Officials in Rochester, New York, this week condemned a cartoon depicting the head of the local Jewish federation and the Jewish majority leader of the county legislature in crude antisemitic caricatures that was sent out in a mass mailer. The cartoon appeared to object to an Israeli flag that has flown outside […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A U.S.-led U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza failed on Friday because Russia and China said it was not strong enough, despite being the closest the Biden Administration has come to calling for a pause in the Israel-Hamas war. The U.S. delegation accused Russia and China, two of […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Israel studies professor Ron Hassner has ended his two-week sit-in at his University of California, Berkeley office, saying the school had made sufficient commitments to satisfy his concerns about the safety of Jewish students on campus. Over the last two weeks, the university has pledged to monitor an ongoing pro-Palestinian protest in […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — In their escalating criticism of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, Democratic leaders have trained their fire on one man: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Earlier this month, President Joe Biden said the way Netanyahu was conducting the war was “hurting Israel more than helping Israel.” Sen. Bernie Sanders, the standard-bearer for […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Mehdi Hasan, the prominent journalist and pro-Palestinian commentator, summed up the feelings of many progressives in January when he posted, “A lot of folks don’t recognize John Fetterman these days.” Hasan was responding to a statement by Fetterman criticizing anti-Israel activism at Harvard University. It was the latest in a string of […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — An overwhelming majority of U.S. Jews say Israel’s reasons for launching a war against Hamas are justified, and a substantial majority approve of how Israel is conducting the war. The Pew Research Center study published Thursday is billed as the rare survey of sentiment about the war to include enough Jewish […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Days after calling for new elections in Israel and saying that the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is an “obstacle to peace” and has “lost his way,” Sen. Chuck Schumer said he would welcome Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress. Schumer’s statement, sent to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency via […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) —  The premier Jewish history museum in the United States may come under the umbrella of the Smithsonian, providing a level of financial security and distinction to an institution that was facing bankruptcy four years ago. On Wednesday, a bipartisan slate of lawmakers introduced legislation to study whether the Weitzman National Museum […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The U.S. Department of Education has concluded its investigation into a public school district in Park City, Utah, over reports of antisemitic harassment and other forms of discrimination, with the district agreeing to improve its anti-bias training and report future incidents of hate to the federal government. The resolution agreement is only […]