Exclusive: Jonathan Eig, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Martin Luther King Jr., has chosen the subject of his next book: George Soros, the 94-year-old Holocaust survivor and billionaire philanthropist who has become the bogeyman for Trump Republicans.
📚 Speaking of books, a South Carolina school district banned a graphic novel about local Holocaust survivors for fifth- and sixth-graders, citing a new state law. (JTA)
🇵🇸 Harvard reinstated a pro-Palestinian student club “ending the group’s five-month suspension for violating the university’s protest guidelines.” (Crimson)
😲 The U.S. charged leaders of a white supremacist group with “with urging their followers to commit terror attacks against Jews and other minority groups. One of their proposed targets allegedly included a Jewish senator,” who was not named in the indictment. (JTA)
👏 The Senate said it will “hold a hearing on hate crimes on Sept. 17, the first such hearing that it has held since the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks and ensuing proliferation of antisemitic incidents across the United States.” (Jewish Insider)
🔥 Officials in Copenhagen arrested a 21-year-old man for allegedly setting a fire at a Jewish woman’s house. He could get up to 16 years in prison. (AP)
🇩🇪 A German rabbinical seminary and cantorial program faces an uncertain future after it was rocked by a sexual harassment scandal. In the meantime, last week there was a bright spot: the graduation of eight students. (JTA)
🗣️ Larry David is going on tour this fall, visiting Atlanta, Chicago and Denver, among other cities. “There are some tickets going on sale for this thing I’m doing,” said David, the co-creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. “It’s really nothing. It’ll be a total waste of your time.” (Variety)
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