Gabby Deutch

1 week ago | jewishinsider.com | Gabby Deutch

Julio Frenk was sitting at a Miami Hurricanes football game on Oct. 7, 2023, when he learned the details of the terror attacks in Israel that killed 1,200 people and saw over 250 taken hostage. Frenk, a public health scholar and sociologist who was then the president of the University of Miami, knew immediately that he had to weigh in with an unequivocal condemnation of the violence. “I had no question that I had to respond and say something.

1 week ago | jewishinsider.com | Gabby Deutch

As visitors entered the Capital Jewish Museum on Thursday morning, open for the first time after an antisemitic attack killed two Israeli Embassy staffers steps from its doors last week, they walked past a makeshift memorial to Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky before security guards wanded them down and checked their bags.

1 week ago | jewishinsider.com | Gabby Deutch

Concerned with a “persistent and pernicious pattern of antisemitism” at the American Psychological Association, the preeminent professional organization for American psychologists, Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) is urging the body’s leadership to investigate antisemitism within its ranks and better respond to the concerns of Jewish members.

1 week ago | jewishinsider.com | Gabby Deutch

During President Donald Trump’s trip to the Middle East earlier this month, he shuttled between Gulf capitals to announce major economic deals. In Qatar, it was an eye-popping economic commitment in trade agreements and direct investment. Saudi Arabia pledged to invest $600 billion in the United States in defense, energy and infrastructure. The United Arab Emirates signed an agreement to build the largest artificial intelligence campus outside the United States.

1 week ago | arcmag.org | Gabby Deutch

Here’s a picture familiar to most Jews: it’s Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year. A Torah reader clad in white ascends to the front of the sanctuary to chant the story of the scapegoat, the biblical tale in which a goat bearing the sins of the Jewish people is sent into the wilderness to its death. On the somber Day of Atonement, Jews listen to this story of sacrifice and sin, read in Hebrew from the Book of Leviticus, as they consider the ways they have done wrong in the prior year.