🇮🇱 Publicly, former President Trump often says that he and the GOP are better friends of Israel’s than the Democrats. But in a new ad, a GOP group is targeting Arab American voters in Michigan, telling them that Vice President Harris “stands with Israel.” (HuffPost)
🥩 A Holocaust survivor is among those who have died due to a listeria outbreak at a Boar’s Head meat factory in Virginia. The family is pursuing legal action against the company. (13 News Now)
🇵🇸 A Missouri middle school teacher apologized after displaying a Palestinian flag in his classroom. He also “expressed frustration over being portrayed as insensitive to Jewish concerns, particularly given his long-standing commitment to Holocaust education.” (St. Louis Jewish Light)
🇩🇪 The Alternative for Germany became the first far-right party “to win a state election in Germany since the Nazi era.” (CNN)
🎥 A new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival, suggests the Nazi film propagandist may have played an active role in a 1939 massacre of Polish Jews. (JTA)
🛩️ Pope Francis, 87 and in a wheelchair, began an 11-day voyage across Asia that will take him to Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore. It is the longest, farthest and “most challenging trip of his pontificate.” (AP)
Shiva calls ► Rabbi Michael Lerner, an influential activist and the founder of Tikkun magazine, died at 81. In an appreciation, our columnist Jay Michaelson writes that Lerner “merged spirituality and social justice and influenced a generation of progressives” … Cantor Naftali Hershtik, the longtime cantor of the Moscow Choral Synagogue, died at 77 … Eliyahu Rips, whose mathematical work laid the foundation for The Bible Code, an international bestseller which claimed to find secret codes in the Torah, died at 75.
