Category: Local

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Since the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the right to abortion is no longer protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. But that seismic constitutional change has triggered a new legal debate: In the absence of federal constitutional protection, does state law provide Jews with a religious liberty right […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — A former Cornell University student has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Jewish students, including saying he would “shoot up” the kosher dining hall, the United States Justice Department said on Wednesday. Patrick Dai, 21, from Pittsford, New York, was charged in October 2023 with posting threats to kill or injure another […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Rep. Gregory Meeks, the leading Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has said he would not approve a U.S. sale of F-15 fighter jets to Israel without “assurances” on what the jets would be used for. “I’m waiting for assurances,” Meeks, who represents a district in New York City, told CNN […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The organization representing the largest American Jewish denomination is pledging to divest from the fossil fuel industry as a response to the climate crisis. Citing the biblical teaching of “till and tend the earth,” the Union for Reform Judaism announced on Wednesday that it has committed to ensuring its investment and pension […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) – In one of the more dizzying episodes of controversy surrounding Jewish cultural events since the Israel-Hamas war, a court ordered a Philadelphia-area movie theater Tuesday to move forward with screening an Israeli film less than a day after the theater’s Jewish director tried to call it off. The injunction issued by Montgomery […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — After spending three summers as an Israeli emissary at Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake in upstate New York, Shahar Vaknin made a decision. “I was 100% sure I’m done with camp,” he said. Then came Oct. 7, when one of Vaknin’s cousins was killed in the Nova music festival massacre. He returned […]

(New York Jewish Week) — Last week, a video circulated online that drew impassioned commentary from Ritchie Torres’ supporters and opponents alike. In the two-minute clip, shared on April 4, the Bronx congressman parries accusations from pro-Palestinian activists that he supports the starvation of children during a genocide in Gaza. In response, he denies that […]

(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via (JEWISH REVIEW)) — When the inaugural California Jewish Open exhibit opens at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco in June, the gallery walls will have several blank spaces where works of art were supposed to hang. The spaces will represent the “missing perspectives” of seven self-identified […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Every Friday night, Rabbi Marc Katz’s synagogue recites a prayer for Israel that, since Oct. 7, has expressed hope for the release of the hostages held by Hamas, mentioned the Israeli government and asked God for dignity for both Israelis and Palestinians. Katz, the spiritual leader of Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield, […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The Israeli military chief of staff fired two officers found to be responsible for the mistakes that led to the killing of seven aid workers with the World Central Kitchen, which deepened a crisis in U.S.-Israel relations. The sackings Friday, and the Israel Defense Forces’ publication of details that led to the […]