Evan Gershkovich, a Jewish reporter for the Wall Street Journal, imprisoned for a year in Russia, has been ordered to remain in jail there on espionage charges until at least June, when his case may be reviewed. Friends and colleagues have organized fundraisers to bring attention to his plight in the hope that publicity may hasten his release.
Zach Hyman, a star hockey player for the Edmonton Oilers, scored his 50th goal of the 2023-24 season on March 24.
Ruth Levy Gottesman, an American educator, chair of the board of trustees of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) in the Bronx, New York, and a long-time professor there, last month donated $1 billion to the medical school to ensure that tuition would be free in perpetuity to all future students. It is the largest gift ever made to any medical school in this country. With her husband David, she donated $25 million to AECOM in 2008, which [...]
Yup, check this out. There they are — our own Miriam Gabriel and Adrianne Greenberg — all decked out for Hawaii in Florida. Shirts, leis, and a grass skirt on friend Meg. Of course, it’s all about golf and good fun, too at the Legacy Golf and Tennis Club’s member-guest tournament. Would you believe that some of the aloha revelers even dressed up their golf carts in grass skirts? Now for the scores. Our Miriam [...]
In a ceremony held Saturday, Feb. 24 at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles, Barbara Streisand, a director, actor and writer, accepted a lifetime achievement award at the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards. She had joined SAG more than six decades ago. In her acceptance speech, she paid tribute to the Jewish founders of the film industry — Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer, and Marcus Loew. “They were all fleeing [...]
The co-chair of a task force set up by Harvard University to combat antisemitism has resigned. It is the second high-profile resignation in the university’s efforts to address complaints by Jewish students that they have felt uncomfortable on campus since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel. In that attack, scores of citizens were slaughtered and nearly 200 taken as hostages, some of them children and seniors. The co-chair, Raffaella Sadun, a professor of business [...]
Five Israeli groups supporting Israelis held hostage in Gaza will receive the 2024 Genesis Prize, the $1 million award known as the “Jewish Nobel.” Presented annually since 2013, the award is given by the Genesis Prize Foundation, and historically has gone to Jewish celebrities or public figures. More recently, the foundation has given the prize to organizations that together are tackling a crisis in the Jewish community, including in 2022 when it honored groups [...]
As a response to the tense climate on campus at Barnard College and Columbia University since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, students at Barnard may no longer display messages on their dorm doors, said an email from Leslie Grinage, the college’s dean. Some students at Barnard and Columbia University, of which it is a part, have placed signs on their dormitory doors charging Israel with genocide in Gaza and of being an illegitimate state. [...]
The Faculty for Justice in Palestine at the University of Pennsylvania is suing the school in an attempt to stop it from participating in a U.S. Department of Education investigation into antisemitism on campus. The New York Civil Liberties Union and an organization that represents pro-Palestinian activists are suing Columbia University for what they describe as the “unlawful suspension” of two pro-Palestinian student groups on campus. But now, Columbia is considering reinstating its chapters of [...]
When Aaron Lansky was studying Yiddish literature at McGill University, he was having difficulty finding the books he needed. First generation Jewish Americans, escaping pogroms and poverty abroad, had flocked to America, bringing their Yiddish books with them. But, Mr. Lansky wondered, what would happen to those books left to their children, who did not speak the language? In an article published Feb. 29 in The New York Times, Joseph Berger chronicled the events that [...]
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