A Columbia University law professor retired after a school investigation found that she discriminated against Israeli students by alleging they were harassing Palestinian students on campus. Reported by The Times of Israel. In Trenton, NJ, two Jewish police officers have filed complaints, alleging workplace discrimination and antisemitism. Reported by newjersey.com Two synagogues in Sydney were defaced with swastikas and antisemitic phrases, and a Jewish child care center was torched, prompting police investigations amid a rise [...]

An article by Andrew Higgins in the Jan. 16 issue of The New York Times is illustrated by a photo of the house on Legionow Street in Oswiecim, Poland, once occupied by Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz. The house, which overlooks the former Nazi death camp, was occupied recently by Grazyna Jurczak, who sold it to the New York-based Counter Extremism Project that intends to open the house to visitors. Workers are stripping away post-war [...]

A postwar epic about a Holocaust survivor, a contemporary comedy about Holocaust tourism, and a biopic of a Jewish musical legend helped lend a formidable Jewish presence to this year’s Oscar nominations. “The Brutalist,” a three-plus-hour historical drama starring Adrien Brody as a fictional Hungarian Jewish architect inspired by real Jewish designers, is well positioned with 10 nominations, including Best Picture, tied for second-most of the year. Also nominated is another Holocaust-themed film, “A [...]

According to a Dec. 31 article in The New York Times by Franz Lidz, “Camels laden with spices, gold and precious stones accompanied the Queen of Sheba on her biblical journey to Jerusalem in the 10th century B.C. A thousand years later, Flavius Josephus , the Jewish Roman historian, wrote that the haul had included the balm of Gilead a fragrant, highly-prized resin also known as Judean balsam, which served as the basis for perfumes, [...]