?? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party decided this morning to delay by a month a vote related to the government’s judicial overhaul plan, threatening to blow up compromise talks over the plan and inflame the protest movement. (Haaretz)
? A senior Biden administration attacked Israel’s diaspora affairs minister saying that he “does not understand the American Jewish diaspora.” Earlier this week, the minister, Amichai Chikli, called the liberal pro-Israel group J Street a “hostile organization” and one of its backers, George Soros, “one of the greatest haters of Israel in our times.” The Biden aide also mentioned a photo of Chikli at last week’s Israel parade in New York that some viewers thought showed him giving protesters the finger. Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. antisemitism envoy, met with Chikli on Tuesday in Israel. (JTA, Twitter, Haaretz)
⚖️ The gunman on trial for killing 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 ranted online about his hatred for Jews prior to the attack, according to evidence revealed in court Tuesday. The prosecution is expected to rest its case today. (AP)
? An effort to ban a graphic-novel adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank from public schools is gaining steam, with some critics calling the book “pornography” and “antisemitic.” Our colleagues at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency did a deep dive. (JTA)
? The curator at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich is trying to return more than 100 silver objects to the descendants of the original Jewish owners. Meticulously tracking ownership through Nazi-era records and genealogy websites, he’s already given back 50 items, including kiddush cups and candlesticks. (AP)
? Ed Sheeran’s Sunday concert drew 89,000 to New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, which some said was its all-time attendance record. Turns out, that honor remains with the 2012 Siyum Hashas, when 93,000 Jews gathered to celebrate the completion of a seven-and-a-half year cycle of studying a page of Talmud each day known as Daf Yomi. (JTA)
Mazel tov ➤ To Rabbi R. Tamara Cohen of Philadelphia, Allison Cook of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Nicole Nash of Brooklyn for winning this year’s Covenant Awards honoring Jewish educators.
We’re everywhere ➤ In the Washington Post, the Forward’s innovation editor Talya Zax reviewed a new book that takes a modern and maternal approach to Frankenstein. And here’s an essay I wrote for The New York Times on how Einstein coped with a Nazi disinformation campaign.
