🎒 Enrollment in Jewish schools has increased in Florida due, in part, to the state’s expanded voucher program signed into law last year by Gov. Ron DeSantis. (AP)
⚖️ A 20-year-old Michigan man was sentenced Monday to a year and a day in jail for using social media to make threats against Jewish people. The FBI said he also had written in his phone the name of an East Lansing synagogue along with a 2024 date. (AP)
😞 The American Jewish World Service, a prominent Jewish international aid group, is set to lay off around 10% of its staff of 120. The news comes as Jewish groups that are not focused on Israel or antisemitism face an uncertain funding landscape. (NY Jewish Week)
🤦 Thanks to a doorbell camera, a Los Angeles woman caught her neighbor drawing a swastika in front of her house. The neighbor at first denied he did it, but confessed when pressed by a local TV reporter. (CBS News)
🖼️ A famous painting by Wassily Kandinsky was looted by the Nazis, displayed in a Dutch museum and finally returned to its Jewish owners. It’s now the star piece at this year’s European Fine Art Fair. (New York Times)
🕍 The oldest Orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn has become embroiled in a dispute as some congregants allege fraud and mismanagement. The allegations have split the shul’s older and younger members. (Shtetl)
💕 Jewish matchmakers and singles flocked to Philadelphia over the weekend for the inaugural YentaCon. “The closer you get to Fiddler on the Roof-style matchmaking, the better it is,” said one of the matchmakers. (NY Post)
Mazel tov ➤ To Chanan Tigay — a journalist, author and professor — on being named the new editor-in-chief of J. The Jewish News of Northern California.
Shiva call ➤ Juli Lynne Charlot, the creator of the voluminous poodle skirt, died at 101.
