📈 A new poll found that 96% of Jews in 13 European countries say they experience antisemitism in their daily life. Some 76% of respondents reported hiding their Jewish identity “at least occasionally.” (Times of Israel)
✂️ Over the objection of Democrats, House Republicans voted to cut $10 million from the office at the Department of Education that deals with antisemitism claims at schools. (Jewish Insider)
⚖️ A New York judge sentenced three members of Lev Tahor, a secretive Jewish cult, to more than 10 years in prison for their role in the 2018 kidnapping of two siblings. (NY Jewish Week)
🤔 Jury deliberations began Wednesday in the trial of a man accused of killing Samantha Woll, the president of a Detroit synagogue. They are off today, but will resume deliberating on Friday. (Detroit Free Press, JTA)
💇 Evan Gershkovich, the Jewish journalist jailed in Russia, had his head shaved before his trial. His colleagues at The Wall Street Journal shaved their heads in solidarity. (X)
🏀 Mayim Bialik, the actress and former Jeopardy! host, is producing a documentary about the Yeshiva University basketball team’s historic 50-game winning streak from 2019 to 2021. (JTA)
🐶 A New Zealand judge ruled that a German shepherd named Hitler who killed several neighborhood cats was to be put down after its owner couldn’t afford to pay the fines. (Waikato Times)
Shiva calls ➤ David Liederman, whose David’s Cookies chain had more than 100 stores nationwide, died at 75 … Benjamin Gregory Hertzberg, a child star on the 1980s sitcom ALF, died at 46.
