Jackie Hajdenberg
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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Fast Forward American Jewish man sentenced to death in Congo for his involvement in a failed coup
Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun — a Washington, D.C. area native and father of three — was one of three Americans among 37 people sentenced to death
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Fast Forward Man suffers severe burn injuries after self-immolation protest outside Israeli consulate in Boston
The incident marks at least the third instance of self-immolation in the US outside of an Israeli consulate or embassy in response to the Israel-Hamas war
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Fast Forward New York woman at center of Orthodox ‘sex strike’ receives her Jewish divorce
Malky Berkowitz, 29, is free to remarry under Jewish law after four years of trying to divorce her husband
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Fast Forward Leaders of white supremacist group charged for urging terrorism against Jews and other targets
One of their proposed targets allegedly included a Jewish senator
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Fast Forward This year’s USPS Hanukkah stamp is a simple menorah with a warm backstory
The stamp was designed by an artist whose mother escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport
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Fast Forward Federal grand jury indicts Ohio man for antisemitic assault on DC synagogue
The indicted suspect is Brent Wood, 35, who drove a U-Haul truck around the security barriers of Kesher Israel, parked on the sidewalk in front of the synagogue, sprayed a ‘noxious aerosol’ and yelled, ‘Gas the Jews!’ at congregants
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Fast Forward New archaeological research shows siege on Masada lasted just weeks, not years
The research counters a long-held narrative about the first-century Roman siege of the fortress
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Fast Forward Family of Holocaust survivor files first wrongful death lawsuit in Boar’s Head listeria outbreak
At 88 years old, Günter Morgenstein was still working as a hairstylist when he became ill with listeria
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