🏅 At the Paralympics, which begin today in Paris, Jewish athletes will hail from the U.S., Brazil, Canada and Israel — including a survivor of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. (JTA)
🇮🇱 Two dozen attorneys general from across the U.S. this week urged Brown University not to partake in the boycott movement of Israel. The warning comes after the school agreed in May “to review an anti-Zionist group’s demand.” (Algemeiner)
📱 Instagram banned the account of a pro-Palestinian student group at NYU, a day after shutting down the account of the Columbia University chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. (X)
🤦 A newly surfaced clip of a Republican party official in Georgia on a white nationalist TV series shows her agreeing with the host that Jews are “controlling everything.” In another clip — from a podcast called Jesus, Guns and Babies — she said that only Christians should be able to run for elected office. (JTA)
💰 The U.S. government is set to spend nearly $150 million more this year compared to 2023 to secure houses of worship and religious organizations, a move prompted by the increase in antisemitism since Oct. 7. (JTA)
🪦 Ancient Roman tombs discovered in Ashkelon will be shown to the public for the first time. The Israeli city is also planning to build an archaeology park to attract tourists. (AP, Haaretz)
Shiva calls ➤ Ofra Bikel, a documentarian whose films for PBS shined a light on the criminal justice system, died at 94. Her work is credited with helping free 13 wrongly charged or convicted people … Hettie Cohen Jones, a poet who wrote an acclaimed memoir of the Beat Generation, died at 90.
What else we’re reading ➤ The bitter fight over the meaning of genocide … Dnipro’s Jews press on despite the grind of Russia’s war on Ukraine … Owners of Lublin’s oldest bakery learn it had belonged to Jewish family killed by Nazis.
