(JTA) — In its closing session, Ohio’s legislature passed a law imposing penalties of up to one hundred eighty days in jail and a one thousand dollar fine for “zoom-bombing” religious services, a practice that antisemites have used to intimidate Jews.
(JTA) — In its closing session, Ohio’s legislature passed a law imposing penalties of up to one hundred eighty days in jail and a one thousand dollar fine for “zoom-bombing” religious services, a practice that antisemites have used to intimidate Jews.
(Cleveland Jewish News via JTA) — The day after his one hundredth birthday on July 10, Dr. Howard Tucker headed downtown to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Cleveland Guardians baseball game.
Ohio may become yet another state to attempt to stop the teaching of what has been termed “critical race theory.” The Ohio bill uses the term “divisive concepts” rather than CRT. Alabama, South Dakota, and Tennessee, among other states, have also used similar language.
(Cleveland Jewish News via JTA) — The outgoing student body president at The Ohio State University nixed an Israel boycott resolution after intense opposition to it from local Jewish groups and state politicians.
(JTA) – The year after Rabbi David Komerofsky started working at Temple Israel in Canton, Ohio, his new community threw him a party.
(JTA) – A Jewish lawmaker in Ohio is deriding legislation to restrict race education in the state’s schools as the “draconian Holocaust censorship bill” a er one of the bill’s Republican sponsors suggested that it is appropriate to teach about the Holocaust from the perspective of the Nazis.
(JNS) Two Kentucky lawmakers are apologizing after being called out for using an anti-Semitic trope during a committee meeting on Tuesday. According to the Lexington Herald- Leader, Republican State Rep. Walker Thomas and State Sen. Rick Girdler of the state’s Capital Projects and Bond Overs…
(JNS) The Ohio Senate unanimously passed a bill on December 9th that would create the Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission.
(JTA) — A Jewish center in Lexington, Kentucky, will see increased police presence for the rest of Chanukah after an assault during one of the community’s public menorah lightings.
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