On Tuesday nights, at 8:30, tens of thousands of people throughout France — believers and nonbelievers, Jews, Muslims and Christians — log on to Facebook to hear the nation’s foremost female rabbi discuss the intersection of racism and anti-Semitism, and help them make sense of a modern plague.

Horvilleur, 45, who has been called a rock star in a leather jacket, is a former model who has appeared on the cover of French Elle. The wild curls framing her face have been compared to the sidelocks of Hasidic Jews. She finds the descriptions amusing insofar as they counter stereotypes and help her reach audiences across cultures.

“I’m trying to create bridges between worlds that have stopped talking to each other,” she said. “I’m trying to create links between words and worlds.”

Horvilleur, one of only four female rabbis in France, is also known as the rare public intellectual who has brought faith into the conversation in a country committed to secularism. And although she is also one of the few progressive rabbis in France’s overwhelmingly Orthodox Jewish community, she has become a leader of a growing movement of Jews from all denominations.

“The Hebrew Bible is full of stories of leaders like Abraham, who were called to leave their birthplace to journey to an unknown region,” she said. “We are who we are because we were willing to go on another path. Judaism is a religion of becoming.”

Brazil has appointed Luis Fux, 67, as the first Jewish Justice Minister of the Supreme Federal Court. In 2011, he became the first Jewish judge to be named to the Bench of the Court. Brazil rotates the post of Chief Justice among the 11 members who comprise its Federal Supreme Court, a panel that decides constitutional matters and final appeals.

Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal, chief executive of the Rabbinical Assembly (RA), will continue in that role and also became CEO of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USJC). In his joint leadership role, Rabbi Blumenthal will seek ways to “enliven and enrich meaningful Jewish experiences.”

Rabbi Blumenthal was the founding rabbi of Shaare Torah in Gaithersburg, MD, and he helped to create Washington, DC’s Ramah Day Camp as well as outreach programs to millennials.

Adam Rapoport, the longtime editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit, resigned after a photo showing him wearing a racist costume surfaced in Twitter, and several staffers publicly called out racist practices within the magazine, The Forward reported.

In a statement on Instagram, Rapoport, who led the magazine since 2010, wrote, “I am stepping down as editor-in-chief of Bon Appetit to reflect on the work I need to do as a human being and allow Bon Appétit to get to a better place.” He acknowledged that he had “blind spots as an editor.”

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was at the center of the country’s most dire protests in years. Following the police killing on May 25 of George Floyd, an unarmed black man arrested for apparently trying to make a purchase with a counterfeit bill, thousands of people looted and burned buildings in Minneapolis and St. Paul. On the heels of those riots, protests broke out in major cities across the country, including New York, Atlanta, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago, as well as the suburbs.

Frey, a Jewish former city councilmember, is two years into his tenure as mayor, and has captured national attention for forcefully calling for an end of the destructive protests. He said he understood the protesters’ “pain and anger,” and supported deployment of state police and National Guard troops to quell the uprising. “We need to look out for our city,” he said.

Meggie Kwait, a humanities teacher at the Beit Rabban Day School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, was one of 14 contestants during the recent Teachers’ Tournament sponsored by the “Jeopardy” quiz show. She won two rounds to make it into the two-game final, where she finished second to a music teacher from Michigan. The experience netted her $50,000 in prize money and bragging rights about her experience.

The giveaway that she was indeed Jewish occurred when she placed an $18 bet in a segment called Final Jeopardy. She was so far ahead in the game that she couldn’t lose, so the wager was more symbolic than competitive. “That was when all the Jews realized I was Jewish,” she told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

“My overriding memory of it is just exhilaration and excitement,” she said. “Some people have said to me ‘Oh, I’m so sad you lost,’ but I really don’t feel that way. I know it sounds cheesy, but I felt like I was winning from the moment I got there.”

Greg Glassman, founder and CEO of CrossFit Gyms, resigned his role following days of unrest at the fitness company. As reported by The New York Times, Glassman was on a Zoom call when he made what might be interpreted as racist remarks about George Floyd, whose death at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis sparked protests and demonstrations across the country. “I created a rift in the CrossFit community and unintentionally hurt many of its members,” he said in a statement. Glassman will maintain his ownership stake.

CrossFit, founded in 2000, is one of the largest fitness brands, with more than 6,000 affiliate gyms in the country and 14,000 worldwide.