✍️ Substack, the popular newsletter platform, has a lax moderation policy leading to content that can be extreme. But after complaints from users, Substack said it would remove some publications that express support for Nazis. (Platformer)
🎒 At California’s Congregation B’nai Israel, a teacher in the preschool posted pro-Hamas and antisemitic content on her personal social media pages. The synagogue’s leadership has opted not to punish the employee. In response, some congregants have left the synagogue. (Jewish Insider)
😠 A professor of family medicine, who spent 30 years at the University of British Columbia, resigned from his post, citing rising instances of antisemitism within the faculty. (CBC)
🏀 An expert on Jews in American sports said that an incident last Thursday of high school basketball players yelling antisemitic slurs at a Jewish team was “a terrible situation,” but is not “representative of a major trend.” (Forward)
✝️ Martin Scorsese revealed the topic of his next movie: Jesus. The filmmaker, who is Roman Catholic, said it will not be a historical epic, but will rather focus on the teachings of Jesus in the modern world. (Hollywood Reporter)
Shiva calls ➤ Leon Wildes, an immigration lawyer who successfully represented John Lennon and Yoko Ono against efforts to deport them from the U.S. in the 1970s, died at 90 … Norman Finkelstein, a longtime teacher at Massachusetts Hebrew College, died at 82.
Mazel tov ➤ To Agnes Keleti, a Hungarian-Israeli gymnast who won 10 Olympic medals, who turns 103 today.
What else we’re reading ➤ German culture minister implements changes to ease restitution of Nazi-looted art … President Biden calls out “poison” of white supremacy in speech at South Carolina church … A Greek Holocaust survivor in Vermont knows how to save humanity. He just needs us to listen.
