🔔 In a reversal of a longstanding policy, Hebrew Union College will begin to admit students in interfaith relationships. The Reform seminary will instead require that rabbinical students with children promise to raise them “exclusively as Jews engaged with Jewish religious practice, education, and community.” (JTA)
🚨 New York City police are seeking the man who allegedly told “Zionists” on a subway car to identify themselves. They released a photo of the unidentified suspect wearing a kaffiyeh. (ABC 7)
🏫 “A New Jersey high school yearbook’s misprint of a photo of Muslim students in place of its Jewish Student Union ‘was not purposeful, but rather was a highly unfortunate error,’ an independent investigator has concluded,” reports JTA.
👀 The ADL released updated campus “report cards” that doubled down on the poor grades the civil rights organization assigned many prominent schools in a much-criticized project. (JTA)
😞 A new report suggests that backlash against the Israel-Hamas war has helped spur a rise in extremist crimes in Germany. (JTA)
🖼️ A Swiss museum removed five paintings from display as part of an investigation into possible Nazi-looted art. The works by artists including van Gogh and Monet will undergo a new provenance assessment. (Washington Post)
What else we’re reading ➤“Jewish critics of Zionism have clashed with American Jewish leaders for decades” … “What does Benny Gantz want for Israel?” … “Jews ‘questioning their future in France’ amid fears about rise in extremism.”
