by staff | Sep 28, 2023 | National
(JNS) — Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2000 novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” which describes two Jewish cousins’ collaboration on comic books, is at the center of a lawsuit filed on Sept. 8 against OpenAI, which makes the...
by staff | Sep 28, 2023 | National
(J. Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Two months after proclaiming that July would henceforth be known locally as “American Christian Heritage Month,” the board of supervisors in El Dorado County, California has reversed course. The county’s elected...
by staff | Sep 28, 2023 | National
(JTA) – Stan Polovets, an oil industry executive who used his wealth and connections to help establish one of the most prestigious awards in the Jewish world, has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman he took out on a date. The woman, identified...
by staff | Sep 28, 2023 | National
(JTA) – A middle school teacher in a district outside Houston, Texas, has been fired reportedly for reading a sexual passage from Anne Frank’s diary out loud to eighth-grade students, the district told local news. The passage came from a 2018 graphic version...
by staff | Sep 28, 2023 | National
(JNS) — A faculty group contacted California Gov. Gavin Newsom to air its grievances in response to efforts by Jewish and other organizations to remove antisemitism from proposed public-school curriculums. The Sept. 8 letter from the University of California...
by staff | Sep 28, 2023 | National
(JTA) — After months of icy relations, President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met face to face for the first time since Netanyahu’s return to office late last year — with both appearing eager to convey that the U.S.-Israel alliance...