When I got a call from the Rev. Laura J. Young, head of the Ohio Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, asking me if I could testify before an Ohio state Senate committee about Jewish views on abortion, I did what rabbis have done for hundreds of years: I crowdsourced. With only a short time to…
A professor at Kent State University with a history of anti-Israel activity is under FBI investigation for ties to the Islamic State. The FBI confirmed that Professor Julio Pino is being investigated, the Akron Beacon Journal reported Tuesday night. The Cuban-born Pino, a convert to Islam who is also known as Assad Jibril Pino, has…
Eight of nine people killed in an Ohio plane crash have been identified, seven from one south Florida company. The passengers were employees of PEBB Enterprises, a real estate company in Boca Raton. No one survived the Tuesday evening crash of the chartered plane in Akron, Ohio. The company is a family business founded by…
Ohio lawmakers plan to push for legislation that opposes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, movement against Israel. Ohio Speaker of the House Cliff Rosenberger announced the decision following a visit Oct. 8 from Israeli lawmaker Hilik Bar, of the Zionist Union, the Jerusalem Post reported. “Ohio will fight BDS and boycotts against Israel,”…
Josh Mandel, the Jewish Ohio treasurer who ran for the U.S. Senate in 2012, will not return a campaign donation from a white supremacist. An array of Republican candidates who have received donations from Earl Holt, the president of the Council of Conservative Citizens, are returning his donations in the wake of reports that the…
Charges against four Jewish Ohio University students for disrupting a student senate meeting with a protest against divestment reportedly have been dropped. The students – Jonah Yulish, Maxwell Peltz, Rebecca Sebo and Gabriel Sirkin – faced up to 30 days in jail and a $250 fine after being arrested on Sept. 10 for staging a…
Anny Katan learned psychoanalysis at Sigmund Freud’s knee — on his lap, in fact! “I grew up often literally sitting on Freud’s lap when I was very little,” Katan explained in a 1986 interview, reminiscing about her childhood in Vienna. Her personal history, intertwined as it was with the origins of psychoanalysis and with the…
1) 148,680 Jews live in Ohio, representing 1.3% of the state’s population. 2) Ohio is the state with the eighth largest Jewish population — more than Texas, less than Maryland. 3) The first two Jewish families to reside in the capital city of Columbus were the Nusbaums and the Gundersheimers, both from the Bavarian village…
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