🇺🇸 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis exited the presidential race on Sunday, potentially boosting Nikki Haley’s support among anti-Trump Jewish Republicans. (JTA)
🤦 Harvard University named the director of the school’s Center for Jewish Studies as co-chair of a new antisemitism task force. The choice is drawing fire because he’s been critical of Israel and has, in the past, downplayed antisemitism on campus. (Jewish Insider)
😲 Alabama is set to execute a death row inmate this Thursday using, for the first time, a method called “nitrogen hypoxia,” which critics have dubbed a “gas chamber.” Several rabbis are pleading with the state’s governor to stop the killing. (NPR, Action Network)
🛕 India inaugurated a controversial new Hindu temple on the site of a centuries-old mosque destroyed in a Hindu mob attack. (AP, New York Times)
📺 Amazon Prime ordered a new TV series called House of David, about the royal drama between the biblical Saul and David. The dramatic tagline? “Two kings. One Kingdom. The outcome is war.” (Hollywood Reporter)
Shiva calls ➤ Berish Strauch, who revolutionized reconstructive surgery procedures, died at 90 … Robert Rosenthal, a psychologist whose most famous finding was the “Pygmalion effect,” died at 90 … Tanya Berezin, a co-founder of the Circle Repertory Company and an actress who performed on and off Broadway, died at 82.
What else we’re reading ➤ An atheist chaplain and a death row inmate’s final hours … Only two Jewish players are in the baseball Hall of Fame. Who could join Koufax and Greenberg in Cooperstown? … The Jewish team behind the classic comedy Airplane! explains how it got off the ground.
