Sholom Schreirber

3 weeks ago | tjvnews.com | Sholom Schreirber |Fern Sidman

By: Fern SidmanIn the aftermath of a catastrophic Brooklyn car crash that left a mother and her two young daughters dead, a disturbing new dimension to the story has emerged. The driver, Miriam Yarimi, a 35-year-old wigmaker from Brooklyn, reportedly told first responders that she was “possessed” and “had the devil in me,” according to law enforcement sources who spoke to The New York Post.

3 weeks ago | tjvnews.com | Sholom Schreirber |Fern Sidman

By: Fern Sidman Columbia University’s newly appointed acting president, Claire Shipman, is facing mounting scrutiny after a December 2023 text message surfaced in which she dismissed high-profile congressional hearings on campus anti-Semitism as “Capitol Hill nonsense.” The controversial remark, along with other private communications between top Columbia administrators, was disclosed in a sweeping 325-page report released by the Republican-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce,...

3 weeks ago | tjvnews.com | Sholom Schreirber |Meghan Blonder

By: Meghan BlonderNew Jersey gubernatorial candidate and Newark mayor Ras Baraka (D.) defended the Nation of Islam and accused critics of trying to silence him after a video surfaced showing him applauding racist and violent comments from Louis Farrakhan, the group’s notorious anti-Semitic leader. While serving as Newark’s deputy mayor in 2004, Baraka hosted Farrakhan to celebrate the first day of Kwanzaa.

3 weeks ago | tjvnews.com | Sholom Schreirber |Fern Sidman

By: Fern SidmanThe Trump administration has expanded its scrutiny of elite universities by initiating a comprehensive review of nearly $9 billion in federal grants and contracts to Harvard University, according to a report that appeared on Monday in The Wall Street Journal. This action comes as part of the administration’s broader investigation into how academic institutions have addressed anti-Semitism on their campuses.

3 weeks ago | tjvnews.com | Sholom Schreirber |Harvey Klehr |Clay Risen

By: Harvey KlehrThe Red Scare—the era from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s during which fears of domestic communism became one of the major issues in American political life—has generated innumerable books and articles dedicated to documenting its alleged victims and searching for those ultimately responsible for the harm it inflicted and the ways in which it distorted American culture.