Meet the new Jewish members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 118th Congress. Their varied backgrounds are illustrative of the many paths Jews are taking to the halls of Congress in the 21st century. Daniel Goldman, D-NY: Daniel Sachs Goldman, 46, heir to the Levi-Strauss & Co. fortune, is as federal prosecutor in Manhattan, and legal analyst for NBC and MSNBC. He has already established a profile on Capitol Hill, joining Democratic Representative [...]

IsraAid CEO Yotam Polizer has been named this year’s Charles Bronfman Prize recipient, a $100,000 award launched in 2004 and given to a humanitarian activist younger than 50. IsraAid, a nonprofit Israeli refugee aid organization, operates with a budget of approximately $20 million and 320 employees spread across 14 countries. “Yotam was chosen because IsraAid is not a government operation,” said Charles Bronfman, in whose name the prize was founded. “It’s an entrepreneurial philanthropy, and [...]

The New York University Board of Trustees has named Linda G. Mills to be the university’s 17th president, the first woman to be appointed to the post. She will take up her new duties on July 1, 2023. Prior to her appointment, the president-designate served for more than a decade as NYU’s Vice Chancellor and Senior Vice Provost for Global Programs and University Life. She is the Lisa Ellen Goldberg Professor of Social Work, Public [...]

Two stars of the hit television show Shtisel will be reuniting for a miniseries about a family that survived the Holocaust. Actors Michael Aloni and Hadas Yaron, who played Akiva and Libbi on Shtisel, will once again play a married couple in the new show, which is being made by Hulu. The new show, release date TBD, is based on a 2017 bestselling book, We Were the Lucky Ones.

The personal papers of Chaim and Inna Hecker Grade (pronounced Gra-day) have been digitized, and are now publicly accessible online. Chaim Grade, who died in 1982, was one of the most important Jewish writers of the 20th century. In 2013, his personal papers, a 20,000-volume library, literary manuscripts and publication rights were awarded to the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the National Library of Israel. His widow, Inna Hecker Grade, who died in 2010, [...]

Harvey Weinstein, the former Hollywood mogul already serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York, was sentenced Feb. 23 in Los Angeles to an additional 16 years on charges of rape and sexual assault. Weinstein continued to deny any wrongdoing. Reporting by The New York Times and The New Yorker in 2017 revealed Weinstein’s alleged history of sexual abuse, harassment, and secret settlements, using his influence as a Hollywood power broker to take advantage of [...]