? The Anti-Defamation League is teaming up with the Jewish fraternity AEPi to train students how to respond to antisemitism. And how to advocate for Israel. (JTA)
☀️ An Israeli soldier died on Monday, apparently due to the heat wave gripping the country. Temperatures in Jerusalem Monday reached 97 degrees Fahrenheit. (JNS, Times of Israel)
? Police arrested a man who threatened a rabbi at the University of Kentucky Chabad. He was “calling for extermination,” the rabbi said, saying “that death is the only option, and just some horrifying violent messages talking about goose stepping Jews into the gas chambers.” (Lexington Herald-Leader, WKYT)
✝️ Archaeologists in Israel are deciding whether to uproot a centuries-old floor containing a mosaic of Jesus and loan it to the evangelical Museum of the Bible in Washington. (AP)
? Israeli filmmaker Shai Gal made a documentary about the end of his parents’ marriage — after four kids and more than five decades. “I just looked at this great story happening in my house,” he said, “and thought, how can I not tell it?” (Jewish Insider)
Mazel tov ➤ To James S. Snyder, formerly of MoMA and the Israel Museum, on his new position as the director of the Jewish Museum in New York.
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