On politics… Ohio Rep. Max Miller, who is Jewish, said he was run off the road Thursday morning by a man who displayed a Palestinian flag and threatened the lives of Miller and his family. Separately, New York City police are investigating Islamophobic threats against Zohran Mamdani, a leading mayoral candidate. (CBS, New York Times)
Vance Boelter, who allegedly assassinated a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and wounded another lawmaker and his wife in a shooting last week, had previously expressed concerns that the U.S. was abandoning Israel and its “Judaic/Christian foundations,” an acquaintance said. (New York Post)
On everything else… After a person who allegedly planned a mass shooting at a San Antonio Jewish Community Center was arrested, one Jewish leader expressed frustration at how “routine” such scares are becoming: “It’s terrible. It’s tragic. It’s not OK. And yet, this is just part of what we do.” (KSAT)
An Australian journalist who reported last year on Columbia University protests over the Israel-Hamas war was denied entry to the U.S. last week — after being flagged for questioning because of that reporting. In a Customs and Border Protection interview after landing in Los Angeles for a stateside visit, the journalist wrote, an agent “asked my opinion of Israel, of Hamas, of the student protesters. He asked if I was friends with any Jews.” (New Yorker)
New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage reportedly removed images of Trump from an exhibit about hate speech last fall, prompting employee concerns. (Jewish Currents)
The wife of the man who attacked Jews in Boulder, Colorado earlier this month issued a plea for compassion after she and the couple’s five children were detained, with the Trump administration pushing for their deportation. “We have been cooperating with the authorities, who are trying their best to get to the bottom of this,” she said in a statement. “We send our love to the many families who are suffering as a result of the attack.” (Fox 31)
Shiva call ➤Edward Anders, a cosmochemist who escaped the Nazis and worked to preserve the memories of Latvian Holocaust victims, died at 98 … Suzanne Rappaport Ripton, a Holocaust survivor who was awarded the British Empire Medal, died at 88.
What else we’re reading ➤ “I’d barely drifted back to sleep when another siren sounded, followed by the scariest moment of my life” (JTA) “Edan Alexander, freed from Hamas captivity after 584 days, feted on return home to New Jersey” (JTA) “Haim Sets Off on a Rampage” (New Yorker) “Germany’s young Jewish and Muslim writers are speaking for themselves” (Conversation) | 